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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.

Last month, on March 20, in response to the U.S.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.