After an 'intensive' national search the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) announced this week that Chris Bloomer has been appointed as the new President and CEO. He will begin his duties as soon as 1 December 2015.
Det Norske Veritas (DNV) which helps to drive the oil and gas sector forward by developing new technical solutions, standards and industry best practices, is conducting the sector's largest ever controlled release of carbon dioxide from an underwater pipeline at its Spadeadam Testing and Research Centre, located in Cumbria, United Kingdom.
Moving to strengthen energy security in Europe the Bundesnetzagentur (National Regulatory Authority) has approved the Trans - Europa Natural Gas Pipeline (TENP) reverse flow project enabling gas flows from Italy and France into Germany, significantly improving Germany's supply situation with an additional 8 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
The STATS Group, founded in Aberdeen in 1998 as Specialist Tools and Testing Services and operating predominately in the piping and pipeline integrity and maintenance field, has made significant inroads into the Malaysian oil field services market with its Remote Techno Plug isolation technology.
Corinth Pipeworks S.A., a Greece-based global supplier of high quality steel pipes for the energy and construction markets, has been awarded a contract by Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) to provide around 495 km of 48 " diameter line pipes for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline across Greece. This translates into some 270,000 tons of line pipe.
Anticipating the complete lifting of sanctions on Iran's oil and gas sector during the course of 2016, Iran's Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zanganeh says Iran will soon become a major player in the global gas market.
Asian conglomerate Jemena, jointly owned by State Grid Corporation of China and Singapore Power, has won a tender in Australia to build a 622 km pipeline to transport shale gas from the Northern Territories to Queensland.
TransCanada has secured a major $500 million contract to build, own and operate (BOO) the Tuxpan-Tula Pipeline in Mexico. The award complements previous TransCanada agreements to build and operate gas pipelines in Mexico.
In the wake on new border-crossing gas pipelines from the United States to Mexico, cheap U.S. shale gas is flowing into Mexico at an average of 3.26 billion cubic feet per day.
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and OMV's CEO Rainer Seele came together last week in Vienna's Hofburg Palace to champion the virtues of strengthening energy relations with Russia and Norway in general and extending the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline System in particular.
Ruling out sabotage, the Swedish military has successfully cleared a remote operated vehicle (drone) rigged with explosives found near Line 2 of the Nord Stream Natural Gas offshore pipeline system.
President Obama announced over the weekend that the construction of the Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline was not in the national interests of the United States.
The decision culminates a seven year review process undertaken by the Department of State and throws into general doubt the export of tar sands oil to foreign markets.
Sending a powerful signal that Canada is putting pipeline safety at the top of its energy priorities, the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) has released for the first time a pipeline industry performance report detailing what Canadian pipeliners have been doing to improve safety, minimise environmental impacts and maximize operational reliability of their collective pipeline systems.
Calgary-based TransCanada, in a formal letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, has requested that the Department put off its review of the Presidential Permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG, which is overseeing the development of a transnational natural gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Europe, has selected Salzgitter Mannesmann International GmbH to supply roughly 270 km of the onshore 48" line pipe as well as 1,559 pipe bends needed for both onshore (48") and offshore (36") use.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc said this week that it is retreating from its development of the Carmon Creek thermal oil sands project in northern Alberta and will take an expected $2 billion restructuring charge as a result.
The company cited falling oil prices and a lack of pipeline capacity in Canada as the reason for its decision.
The first joint of 970 km Ukhta-Torzhok-2 natural gas pipeline with a design capacity 45 billion cubic meters of gas per year was welded this week, a small yet critical event in the construction of the larger Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline System, of which it is part. Nord Stream 2 is currently one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects.
ILF, one of the world's leading engineering companies offering design and consulting services for the development of critical and complex infrastructure projects, has provided the design and supervision services for 1,200 km of four key high pressure natural gas pipelines operated by GAZ-SYSTEM S.A.
The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) is raising the transparency bar by launching a new interactive digital map, giving Canadians easy access to detailed information on over 100,000 km of member transmission pipelines crisscrossing the country.
Penspen, a leading engineering and management services company based in London, has been awarded a contract worth $4.3 million from Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL), (A Company of Petrobangla) under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources of Bangladesh.
On the heels of last year's devastating natural gas pipeline explosion in the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh, killing ultimately 24 people and injuring many more, GAIL, India's largest natural gas pipeline operator, will begin deploying drones in a bid to raise safety standards and to create a new culture of safety throughout its operations.
With oil prices hovering below $50 per barrel and expectations that they could go even lower, OMV has announced its intention to sell 49 percent of its wholly-owned subsidiary Gas Connect Austria (GCA), which company officers say will strengthen OMV's cash flow and balance sheet.
Sinopec, Asia's biggest downstream company, has received approval from China’s National Development and Reform Commission to build a 8,400-kilometer pipeline network carrying up to 30 billion cubic meters of gas per annum from the gas fields in northwest China to the southern and eastern provinces around Guandong.
After a decade of protracted negotiations, Russia and Pakistan signed an Inter-Governmental Agreement yesterday on building a 1100-km natural gas pipeline from LNG terminals in southern Pakistan to growing domestic markets in the north. The construction is scheduled to be completed in late 2017.
Leaders of Poland and the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia met today to sign an agreement on a 562 km, 28 inch gas pipeline connecting Poland to Lithuania. The Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) will end the long lasting isolation of the Baltic Sea region and bring energy needed for a new economic development.