The Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) has announced that it has delayed the release of its recommendation report on Kinder Morgan Inc.’s proposed $5.4 billion, 980 km, 12 pump stations Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project by five months to acquire additional information on the project.
Coinciding with the upgrade of the Bapco refinery in Bahrain, an agreement totaling $300 million on the combined onshore / offshore 115-kilometre oil pipeline, 73 kms of which will run overland and the rest under the Gulf, has been made between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP), which is organizing the transport of natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan to Europe via an 878-km gas pipeline system, is inviting companies to pre-qualify for the supply and delivery of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquistion (SCADA) system and fibre optic cable.
With the submission of a 30,000-page application, environmental resource reports and exhibits – a stack of paper more than 10 feet tall – Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, today formally applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to build a $5 billion, 564-mile interstate natural gas transmission pipeline from West Virginia to North Carolina.
Lack of progress in the Turkish Stream project has prompted the Russians as well as the Turks to explain the hold-up. Not surprisingly the respective explanations vary considerably.
Aiming to bring down costs and reduce complexity in a continued low oil price environment, DNV GL, a world leading consulting, testing and certification company, is launching two joint industry projects to investigate composite components for the subsea sector and qualify technology for a more efficient line pipe production processes.
Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in the United States, will extend the current binding open season to review interest in the estimated $4 billion Utica Marcellus Texas Pipeline (UMTP).
In difficult marketing conditions the Voestalpine Group has been awarded a contract by the National Gas and Industrialization Company (GASCO) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to supply 95,000 tons of premium line pipe plates for the 114 km high - pressure Integrated Gas Development Pipeline (IGD-E) project in Abu Dhabi.
Following an expert study showing the feasibility of constructing an additional two pipelines to supply Russian natural gas to the EU market via Germany, a consortium of companies comprising PJSC Gazprom, E.ON SE, BASF SE Wintershall Holding Gmbh, the Royal Dutch Shell plc, OMV AG and Engie S.A.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) which will transport natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan to Europe through an 870 km long pipeline, has awarded the contract for the supply of six gas turbine turbo compressor units to Siemens AG.
Steelhead LNG, a Vancouver - based gas company, has signed a preliminary agreement with Williams for the construction of a 128 km natural gas pipeline from Sumas, Washington to the proposed Malahat LNG Project in the Saanich Inlet, British Columbia (B.C.).
Nepal and India have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the construction of a 41 km transnational oil pipeline, culminating two decades of intermittent negotiation.
Minister for Commerce and Supplies Sunil Bahadur Thapa and India's Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan signed the MoU on behalf of their respective governments.
Eni, the Italian oil and gas giant, has startled the petroleum industry with the announcement of a supergiant gas discovery at its Zohr prospect in Egypt's offshore economic waters. The field could potentially hold 30 trillion cubic feet of lean natural gas in place, the largest ever made in the Mediterranean Sea.
In an unprecedented feat of engineering for the Polarled project the first pipeline crossing the Arctic Circle was laid this past week by a consortium of Statoil - led companies.
The 482 km long 36 inch wide pipeline will run from Nyhamna in western Norway to the Aasta Hansteen field, creating a new "gas highway" from the Norwegian Sea to Europe.
The development of a new, large $1 billion dry gas pipeline gathering system designed to process more than 2 billion cubic feet per day of gas has been announced by MarkWest Energy Partners and The Energy & Minerals Group.
GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. and AB Amber Grid, the Polish and Lithuanian gas transmission operators and principals behind the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) project, have jointly agreed to extend the submission date of the Capacity Requests Forms for the Non-Binding phase of the Open Procedure, which began 31 July 2015, to 31 August 2015.
General Electric (GE) has secured a multi-million dollar contract to provide advanced turbo machinery for the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), facilitating the transport of natural gas from Azerbaijan via Turkey to European energy markets.
The Ontario Energy Board has voiced its opinion on the $12 billion Energy East oil pipeline project, reflecting the concerns of the communities along the route that the environmental risks are greater than the potential benefits.
A new study conducted by the Fraser Institute, a non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank, has concluded that transporting oil and gas by rail is much riskier than moving it by pipeline.
Nordstream II, a proposed gas pipeline project connecting Russian and German coasts from the floor of the Baltic Sea, has taken another step forward with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Intent between Gazprom and BASF in Berlin.
After months of deliberation government officials in Uganda and Kenya have agreed on a route for a 1500 km pipeline to transport oil from Uganda's Lake Albert basin to Lamu, Kenya on the Indian Ocean.
Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI) has opened its new, innovative Technology Development Center (TDC) in Houston, Texas within a year of groundbreaking. Construction of the TDC has been completed over a span of eight acres, including a state-of-the-art pull test facility, a 20,000 sq. ft. plus workshop and test facility with an additional 9,000 sq. ft.
STATS Group, a Scottish company providing full service capability for the maintenance, repair and modification of oil and gas installations and pipelines, onshore and offshore, has been awarded a contract for its Emergency Pipeline Repair System (EPRS) over $10 million stretching 10 years for the design, manufacture and test pipeline isolation and intervention equipment for a range of pipeline
The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) AG has awarded Technip with a contract for Project Management Services, covering the onshore portion of the pipeline from Greece to Albania and ultimately into Italy.
Sempra Energy, an American natural gas utilities company based in San Diego, announced that it has been awarded a natural gas transportation contract worth an estimated $108 million in Chihuahua, Mexico by the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE). The award will be executed through Sempra's majority-owned IEnova and its subsidiary, Gasoducto de Aguaprieta.
