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Argentina has secured a loan worth $840 million from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) to fund the construction of the "President Néstor Kirchner" gas pipeline.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has ordered Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy to reduce the operating pressure on more than 1,000 additional miles of its Keystone pipeline.

After weeks of frenetic finger-pointing and accusations concerning who is truly to blame for the explosion and subsequent rupture of Nord Stream 1&2 gas pipelines, there is little to suggest that the new revelations are anything more than idle speculation.

A group of international shipping companies and their subsidiaries agreed last week to pay $96.5 million to Amplify Energy Corp. to dismiss one of the last remaining lawsuits over a massive oil spill off the Southern California coast that sent at least 596,000 liters of crude into the waters off Huntington Beach in October 2021.

Pakistan is looking for a workaround to avoid a problem with the U.S. and billions of dollars in fines for the delayed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project.

According to an article published by Press TV on March 4, sources privy to the matter revealed Pakistani lawmakers had demanded progress on the project, warning of penalties if it is not completed by the year-end.

Energy giant EWE, based in Oldenburg, Germany, is planning a 70-km underground gas pipeline from the LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven to the gas storage facility in Nüttermoor und Jemgun in northwest Lower Saxony.

Shell blames crude oil theft for an explosion at Nigeria’s oil pipeline in Rumuekpe community, Emuoha Local Government Area of Rivers State. The explosion that occurred in the early hours of March 3, sparked fire,  leaving 12 dead, according to the Rivers State Police report.

Equinor UK Limited has signed a deal to acquire Suncor Energy UK Limited for a total of $850 million, Equinor announced on March 3, 20223, in a blog post published on its website.

Dr. ir. Sameera Naib is working as Senior Integrity Engineer at ROSEN. He specializes in remaining life estimations, crack assessments, fracture mechanics, risk analysis and integrity management.

In a major development likely sounding the death knell for the erstwhile pride of the extensive Russian pipeline network, Reuters has reported that Gazprom is set to seal up the damaged Nord Stream 1 & 2 pipelines to Europe as there are no plans to repair them.

Spanish grid operator Enagas has made a significant strategic acquisition in the gas pipeline sector in the latest deal with Reganosa.

According to a Reuters report the company has purchased a 130-km gas pipeline network from energy firm Reganosa for €54 million ($57.33 million).

Kazakhstan's national oil pipeline company, KazTransOil, on February 23, started receiving Kazakh oil for shipment to Germany through its main oil pipelines, Shyngys Ilyasov, the director of the public relations and internal communications department at KazTransOil, said in a press statement.

The diplomatic fallout between Algeria and Morocco has bolstered energy collaborations between Rabat and Madrid following the shutdown of Algeria's largest gas pipeline with Spain, the Maghreb-Europe pipeline, in November of last year.

Open Grid Europe (OGE), GRTgaz Deutschland and Solar Turbines have partnered to successfully test fuel gas containing up to 25 percent hydrogen on a low emissions Titan 130 SoLoNox gas turbine driving a gas compressor. These gas turbines are usually powered by natural gas taken from the pipeline system.

3000 pipes, originally intended to be used to transport Russian gas as part of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline system, have been lying in limbo for over a year in the German port of Mukran in Ruegen on the Baltic Sea.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has expressed willingness to finance a prospective hydrogen pipeline connecting Portugal to Spain and France if the project meets the eligibility criteria, EIB Vice-President Ricardo Mourinho Félix said during an interview with Lusa, adding that the bank

Iran is looking to build a massive water pipeline project to help boost water supplies to the country’s tourist region of Isfahan. According to Isfahan’s governor general, the 920-kilometer pipeline set to transport water from the Sea of Oman is already at its preliminary stages, the Financial Tribune news agency reported last Tuesday.

Zambian president and his Tanzanian counterpart have agreed to fast-track the upgrade of the TAZAMA pipeline, which has served the two countries for more than five decades.

Nevada governor Joe Lombardo suspended the state of emergency announced last Friday to mitigate the impact of a fuel leak in California's South and Nevada after a fuel leak was detected on a pipeline that supplies Las Vegas.

Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), the 878-km long pipeline transporting natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea to Europe, has joined the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP), the flagship oil and gas reporting and mitigation program of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Faulty welding and bending stress fatigue on TC Energy's Keystone pipeline caused the largest oil spill in nearly a decade, the pipeline operator announced Thursday last week.

South Korea's state-owned gas importer and transporter, Korea Gas Corporation (Kogas), has selected Norway's DNV to evaluate the possibility of blending hydrogen into the country's gas transmission network, the company shared the news on its website last week.

In wake of the port of Ceyhan sustaining earthquake damage last week, Kazakhstan's state energy company Kazmunaigaz has postponed the start of oil exports from the giant Tengiz oilfield via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline after BP Azerbaijan declared force majeure on loadings from Ceyhan.

Pakistan has shown a willingness to go on with the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project even without India as Afghanistan is willing to offer more support, the Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Musadik Malik, said during his recent visit to Saudi Arabia, Business Recorder reported earlier this week.

Russia plans to significantly accelerate its pipeline building activities this year as part of the plans for diversification of its oil and gas deliveries from the West to Asian and Middle East directions.

Russia has traditionally exported its oil and gas through pipelines, with the majority of the volume being intended for the EU market.