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KROHNE Receives the Pipeline Research Council International In-Kind Support Awar

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.

Enbridge aims to build a pipeline under Lake Huron and Lake Michigan (JaySi - Shutterstock)
Enbridge aims to build a pipeline under Lake Huron and Lake Michigan (JaySi - Shutterstock)

Enbridge Aims to Build a Pipeline Under Lake Huron and Lake Michigan

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

Safe and Reliable Gas infrastructure Keeps the Gas Flowing during Current Crisis (Corona Borealis Studio / Shutterstock)
Safe and Reliable Gas infrastructure Keeps the Gas Flowing during Current Crisis (Corona Borealis Studio / Shutterstock)

Safe and Reliable Gas infrastructure Keeps the Gas Flowing during Current Crisis

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.

Federal Court Orders a Full Environmental Review of Dakota Access Oil Pipeline (David T. Stephenson / Shutterstock)
Federal Court Orders a Full Environmental Review of Dakota Access Oil Pipeline (David T. Stephenson / Shutterstock)

Federal Court Orders a Full Environmental Review of Dakota Access Oil Pipeline

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.

Baltic Pipeline: Gaz-System Preparing Land in Denmark and Poland (Ververidis Vasilis / Shutterstock)
Baltic Pipeline: Gaz-System Preparing Land in Denmark and Poland (Ververidis Vasilis / Shutterstock)

Baltic Pipeline: Gaz-System Preparing Land in Denmark and Poland

Soon roads within the investment site in Denmark will be relocated. The contractor will reconstruct the layout of two local roads running withing the landing site of the Baltic Pipe in Denmark. One of them will become an access road to the construction site.

Has the Oil Price War Between Saudi Arabia and Russia Run Its Course? (William Potter / Shutterstock)
Has the Oil Price War Between Saudi Arabia and Russia Run Its Course? (William Potter / Shutterstock)

Has the Oil Price War Between Saudi Arabia and Russia Run Its Course?

The oil price war between Saudi Arabia and the Russian Federation, with both countries ramping up oil production in a time of dramatically reduced consumer demand worldwide, has moved crude oil prices to 20 year lows this week.  U.S.

first publicly accessible hydrogen network will allow wide-ranging CO2 reduction (Copyright: OGE)
first publicly accessible hydrogen network will allow wide-ranging CO2 reduction (Copyright: OGE)

First Publicly Accessible Hydrogen Network Will Allow Wide-ranging CO2 Reduction

Germany’s first publicly accessible hydrogen network is due to supply increasing quantities of green hydrogen (H2) to industrial companies in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia from late 2022 onwards. BP, Evonik, Nowega, OGE and RWE Generation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop the GET H2 Nukleus project. All these companies are members of the GET H2 initiative

High Court Says Construction on Nordstream 2 Can Continue (Copyright by: Aksabir / Shutterstock)
High Court Says Construction on Nordstream 2 Can Continue (Copyright by: Aksabir / Shutterstock)

High Court Says Construction on Nordstream 2 Can Continue

The Higher Administrative Court of Berlin - Brandenburg cleared yesterday the last remaining legal obstacle to the completion of the Nordstream 2 Gas Pipeline. The sticking point concerned an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a 500-km portion (called EUGAL) of the 1200-km long pipeline.

Plains All American Pays Up For The May 2015 Oil Pipeline Rupture (Shutterstock / Pix One)
Plains All American Pays Up For The May 2015 Oil Pipeline Rupture (Shutterstock / Pix One)

Plains All American Pays Up For The May 2015 Oil Pipeline Rupture

In May 2015 a corroded Plains All American oil pipeline burst, spilling nearly 3000 barrels of crude that covered Refugio State Beach near Santa Barbara, California. The incident killed hundreds of marine mammals, fish, birds and other wildlife.  

TC Energy Anxious To Finish Construction of Keystone XL Oil Sands Pipeline (Brett Holmes / Shutterstock)
TC Energy Anxious To Finish Construction of Keystone XL Oil Sands Pipeline (Brett Holmes / Shutterstock)

TC Energy Anxious To Finish Construction of Keystone XL Oil Sands Pipeline

In anticipation of a favorable judicial ruling and corresponding green light to proceed in a US District Court, TC Energy, based in Calgary, Canada has begun preliminary work along the route of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline through the United States.

Built-in Capacity Constraints Limit Russia's Freedom of Maneuver (Factory_Easy / Shutterstock)
Built-in Capacity Constraints Limit Russia's Freedom of Maneuver (Factory_Easy / Shutterstock)

Built-in Capacity Constraints Limit Russia's Freedom of Maneuver

The global Corona pandemic is having a profound effect on energy markets, leading to a precipitous drop in demand for oil and oil products and forcing major oil producers like Saudi Arabia and the Russian Federation to increase production in a struggle for market share.

Europe's leading pipeline conference goes online because of COVID-19
Europe's leading pipeline conference goes online because of COVID-19

Europe's leading pipeline conference goes online because of COVID-19

Hanover/Berlin, 9 March 2020: The annual Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc) will be held online this year. This was announced by the organizer EITEP, immediately after the cancellation of the annual event. The rampant corona virus has made it impossible to hold the event safely and has led to the cancellation of numerous well-known events worldwide.

Construction on the Coastal GasLink Pipeline Picks Up  (Puffin's Pictures / Shutterstock)
Construction on the Coastal GasLink Pipeline Picks Up (Puffin's Pictures / Shutterstock)

Construction on the Coastal GasLink Pipeline Picks Up

The Pipeline Technology Journal has been following the development of negotiations between the Wet'suwet'en indigenous chieftains and the Canadian government on the construction of the 670-km Coastal Gaslink Pipeline and last week work resumed after a long hiatus, suggesting some kind of modus vivendi had been reached.

Process unit for gas processing, the overall plan (copyright: ekipaj / shutterstock)
Process unit for gas processing, the overall plan (copyright: ekipaj / shutterstock)

ExxonMobil Spearheading Efforts to Mitigate Methane Gas Emissions From Pipelines

The energy behemoth ExxonMobil has recently announced proposed changes to performance standard for the oil and gas sector, offering a model framework for industry-wide methane regulations.

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Expected to Receive a Green Light to the Finish Line (Copyright by Atlantic Coast Pipeline)
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Expected to Receive a Green Light to the Finish Line (Copyright by Atlantic Coast Pipeline)

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Expected to Receive a Green Light to the Finish Line

Last week the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to favor the notion that the federal government had authority to grant a right of way for the proposed $7.5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross under the Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia.

Pipe line and valves (faucets) with national flags of Russia and China (copyright by Shutterstock/Aksabir)
Pipe line and valves (faucets) with national flags of Russia and China (copyright by Shutterstock/Aksabir)

Gazprom Delivers 840 Million Cubic Meters Of Natural Gas To China

The 3,000-km “Power of Siberia” pipeline supplied China with 840 million cubic meters of natural gas since it launched in December last year. This amount is equal to 10 million cubic meters a day.

Chinese Pipeliners Resume Work in the Midst of the Corona Virus Pandemic (Copyright: alexmlx / Adobe Stock)
Chinese Pipeliners Resume Work in the Midst of the Corona Virus Pandemic (Copyright: alexmlx / Adobe Stock)

Chinese Pipeliners Resume Work in the Midst of the Corona Virus Pandemic

Construction on the gargantuan, transboundary East Route gas pipeline, with a 3000-km section in Russia and a 5,111-km part in China, has picked up again after the Corona virus last week ground work to a halt, as with much of China: In the middle section of the project more than 70 workers with 16 sets of mechanical equipment began building after their body tempera

The Department of Homeland Security page on a monitor screen (copyright by Shutterstock/Gil C)
The Department of Homeland Security page on a monitor screen (copyright by Shutterstock/Gil C)

Gas Pipeline Shuts Down After Cyber Attack

In the US, cybercriminals have succeeded in shutting down an industrial plant. All it took was a wrong click from an employee.

The attack was launched by what is known as spearphishing. It appears that a company employee clicked on a link in an e-mail that looked deceptively real, but was malicious. The Departement of Homeland Security will not reveal which company it is.

Eddyfi / NDT acquires Halfwave (Copyright: Eddyfi)
Eddyfi / NDT acquires Halfwave (Copyright: Eddyfi)

Eddyfi / NDT acquires Halfwave

Halfwave is the owner of the proprietary Acoustic Resonance Technology (ART), an ultrasound-based technique which allows high-precision measurements without the need for a liquid couplant. The company is currently active worldwide in the field of Subsea inspection and Pipeline inline inspection (ILI).

The Growing Costs of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline in Canada (Copyright: Valmedia / Adobe Stock)
The Growing Costs of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline in Canada (Copyright: Valmedia / Adobe Stock)

The Growing Costs of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline in Canada

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, who held talks with some indigenous communities on Saturday, told a talk show on Sunday the unrest and its impact on the economy amounted to a national crisis.  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has cancelled a planned trip to Barbados to deal with the deteriorating situation.

Druzhba a Central Element in Relations Between Transit Countries (Copyright: участник Водник CC BY-SA 3.0) участник Водник
Druzhba a Central Element in Relations Between Transit Countries (Copyright: участник Водник CC BY-SA 3.0) участник Водник

Druzhba a Central Element in Relations Between Transit Countries

Druzhba, the world's longest oil pipeline of some 4000-km and the preeminent supplier of Russian and Kazakh crude to the Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany, has commanded headlines the past several weeks for its relations within the Druzhba community of nations.