It takes a certain genius to use an object for a completely different purpose than the one for which it was originally intended. And so it is with Armin Küpper from the small German town of Liedberg in North Rhine Westphalia.
Bulgaria, with more than a little encouragement from the European Union, is about to embark on a long-awaited plan to diversify its sources of natural gas.
As if there were not enough existing obstacles thrown in Nordstream 2's way (see Pipeline Technology Journal, 27 May 2020), Senators Ted Cruz and Jeanne Shaheen announced a bill today on Capitol Hill to expand sanctions on the troubled gas pipeline to prevent its completion and thus end what they see as Moscow's plan to raise its economic and political influence in
The over 2000-km gas pipeline Power of Siberia, linking Russia's prodigious gas reserves to gigantic energy markets of China, is supposed to be in full swing right now, underscoring the new energy alliance between the Russian bear and the Chinese dragon. At best the flowing gas is so reduced it's barely making a whisper as it moves through the pipeline.
SONATRACH, Algeria's national hydrocarbon company, has become the majority shareholder of the offshore Medgaz pipeline connecting Algeria from the compressor station located at Beni-Saf to the incoming terminal located in Almeria, Spain.
Transit revenues on the Chad - Cameroon pipeline totaled approximately 55 million euros in 2019, according to recently published figures published by the National Hydrocarbon Company (SNH). This represents a nearly 25 percent increase over the previous year.
The saga of Nord Stream 2 continues without end. As reported earlier in these pages, the subsea pipeline running parallel along the floor of the Baltic Sea to the original Nord Stream 1 is a mere 150-km from its goal in Greifswald.
Late last year, 2 December 2019, China and Russia launched a gas pipeline that is more than 6,000 kilometers long, an outcome of their long-planned energy partnership.
The first ever online ptc 2020 was successfully held from 30 March to 2 April 2020. The digital version of the renowned Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc) was put in place on short notice by the organizer EITEP Institute, after the Corona-Pandemic led to a global shutdown.
Northern Lights, a key cross border infrastructure project that links the energy systems of EU countries with Norway and the UK to help the European continent meet its climate-neutrality ambition by 2050, has gotten a huge boost with Equinor's, Shell's and Total's decision to invest in the project -- Norway's first exploitation license for CO2
Several sub-Saharan countries in Africa -- the planet's second largest continent, home to over 600 million people and proven gas reserves of nearly 500 trillion cubic feet -- are considering a number of big ticket pipeline construction projects.
A special pipe laying vessel, the Russian "Akademik Tscherski" has at long last arrived in the Baltic Sea, just east of Rügen, to complete the subsea construction of Nordstream 2.
Against the backdrop of the Corona pandemic what has been touted as " the most significant deal to emerge since the countries signed a historic peace treaty in 1979," Israel and Egypt began implementing an estimated $19.5 billion natural gas deal.
NDT Global, a leading supplier of ultrasonic inline inspection (ILI) and integrity services, announce, 1,000,000 hours without a recordable injury.
Polish President Andrzej Duda heralded the beginning of a 900-km major gas pipeline from Norwegian waters of the North Sea of Norway, through Denmark, to landfall at Niechorze-Pogorzelica in Poland. Duda proclaimed the Baltic Pipeline would be a "milestone" in giving Poland independence from Russian gas.
Enbridge's accident-prone 30 inch diameter Texas Eastern Transmission Gas Pipeline, running 14,218-km from Texas and the Gulf Coast to the densely populated northeast of the United States, exploded on a hillside in eastern Kentucky. Enbridge said that it has shut-in a section of the pipeline and secured the area.
A nationwide program considered by the pipeline industry as vital to its profitability has been suspended by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a separate and permanent branch of the U.S. Government.
Construction work on the "Zeelink" gas pipeline is largely proceeding according to plan despite corona restrictions. The natural gas pipeline from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Münsterland is scheduled to go into operation in spring next year.
The German Federal Network Agency must decide by the end of May whether Nord Stream 2 will be subject to European regulation. A new expert opinion is now to refute the arguments of the opponents.
KROHNE, Inc. announces it has received the Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI) In-kind Support Award for its outstanding commitment and support of several significant research programs. KROHNE was presented with the award at PRCI’s Annual Research Exchange Meeting on March 3rd 2020, at the Westin San Diego in California.
After years of study by TC Energy of Canada, key regulatory approvals, including a presidential permit, and the support of landowners, customers, indigenous groups and numerous partners in the U.S.
Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline company, is interested in building a 6.4-km long tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac, the Michigan waterway that connects Lake Huron and Lake Michigan -- an ecologically sensitive area and popular tourist destination -- constituting two of the Great Lakes. The company had applied last Wednesday for state and federal authoriza
Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) and its members are responding to the issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that all personnel are looked after and that supplies of gas are uninterrupted.
In 2017 President Donald Trump granted federal permits to Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) for the commercial operation of the 1886-km Dakota Access Oil Pipeline. More than two years later, a federal court has ordered the Trump administration to conduct a full environmental review, saying "too many questions remain unanswered.
