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Culminating years of negotiations Gazprom Management Committee Chairman Alexey Miller and the CNPC Vice President Wang Dongjin signed in Moscow this week the Heads of Agreement for a 2600 km, 56 inch pipeline from Russia to China via the western route. With Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping looking on, the document outlines the main technical and commercial parameters of the future supplies.

DNV GL, the international certification body which, among other things, ensures that pipelines are designed, constructed, operated and maintained in a safe, reliable and cost-effective manner, has been awarded a $4 million offshore pipelay surveillance contract by Statoil to monitor quality assurance throughout the installation campaign. The work will focus on the 480 km Polarled gas pipeline between the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea and the Nyhamna gas processing facility in western Norway.

Polish PGNiG, Russian Gazprom and Polish Gas-Trading S.A., shareholders in EuRoPol GAZ s.a., which owns 684 km of the Polish section of the Yamal - Europe Transit Pipeline System, has awarded a major service and maintenance contract to Siemens Power Generation Services.

This past December 2014 Russia and Turkey signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to transport 63 billion cubic meters of gas per year via a Black Sea pipeline from Russia into Turkey and ending at the Turkish-Greek border. Generally such MOUs are non-binding. But this week the two countries sought to erase any doubt by announcing the operational commissioning and start of gas deliveries in December 2016.

As it continues to build up its natural gas infrastructure in the North Sea, Statoil has chosen SmartPlug® isolation technology, by T.D. Williamson (TDW), to safely isolate a 150 km wet gas pipeline from its Huldra platform to the Heimdal Gas Center.

To this end the company has elected to lay a 27 km pipeline from Valmont and tie into the existing Huldra-Heimdal pipeline.

With a renewed focus on its core upstream business, BP has agreed to sell its share of the Central Area Transmission System (CATS), a major piece of the North Sea gas pipeline system, to majority shareholder Antin Infrastructure Partners for £324m.

The system includes a 250 mile long gas pipeline between the Everest field and a gas terminal at Teesside in England, meeting 8 percent of the UK demand for natural gas.

Up to now BP has served as the operator of CATS.

BP North Sea regional president Trevor Garlick said: "The North Sea is an important region for BP.

Coming on the heels on the preliminary agreement between the P5+ 1 and Iran on its nuclear program, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) announced that it is ready to take in new consortium shareholders -- including Iran.

TAP, which will transport natural gas from the Azeri Shah Deniz II field in the Caspian through Turkey to Europe, will thus be in a position to add Iran's immense gas reserves, currently estimated to be the second largest in the world, to the project.

Chevron has announced that it is increasing the incremental capacity of its 1505 km crude oil pipeline from Tengiz, Kazakhstan to Novorossiysk, Russia.

Williams, one of the premier natural gas companies in the United States, announced that it is seeking authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to expand the 60 percent Williams-owned Transco, the nation's largest volume and fastest growing interstate natural gas pipeline system running over 10,000 miles in length.

The project, dubbed Atlantic Sunrise, will transport 1.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States.

Statoil has begun laying the first segments of the Polarled 482 km gas pipeline project, which will transport gas from the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to Nyhamna in western Norway.

The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) has broken ground. The placement of the first segment of the 1850 km gas pipeline planned from Shah Deniz to Europe was celebrated by the presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey in the Selim district of Kars.

ATCO Energy Solutions and ATCO Pipelines are teaming up to manage and maintain a newly implemented pipeline monitoring system covering a 900 km natural gas pipeline in British Columbia.

The agreement between ATCO and the Pacific North Gas Limited’s (PNG) West Transmission Pipeline provides that ATCO Energy Solutions will manage the overall operating contract and ATCO Pipelines will implement and monitor the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system.