In a sudden about-turn, Russian gas giant Gazprom has cancelled several tenders for construction of more than 400km of a gas trunk pipeline needed for the planned Nord Stream II project, according to documents posted on a government procurement website.
With great fanfare the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) has launched the 'home-developed submarine pipeline Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) detector,' aiming to get a significant share of the lucrative pipeline inspection business in China and thus end foreign companies’ monopoly on the submarine pipeline inspection in China.
The U.S. government said this week that it would help Kenya find the estimated $18 billion needed to construct an oil pipeline from Lamu on the Kenyan coast to the oil fields located in an area called the "great rift" in the north of the country.
After months of ongoing but unsuccessful efforts by Southern California Gas Company to stem a massive natural gas leak spewing methane and other gases from a suspected 7 inch diameter, 61 year old underground natural gas pipeline into a Los Angeles neighborhood, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency last week.
TransCanada, the Canadian energy giant aspiring to be the leading energy infrastructure company in North American, has filed suit against the Obama administration for rejecting last November the proposed 2,639-mile cross-border oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast known as Keystone XL.
Shawcor, a leading global energy services company with a track record of executing some of the pipeline industry's most complex projects, has moved to enhance its pipeline engineering and integrity management services with the acquisition of Lake Superior Consulting, LLC for an undisclosed sum. The deal also includes a potential earn out payment to be made in 2016.
Tallgrass Energy Partners (TEP) announced this week that it is acquiring an additional 31.3 percent interest in the 760 - mile Tallgrass Pony Express crude oil pipeline running from Guernsey, Wyoming to Cushing, Oklahoma.
The company will offer a cash consideration of $475 million and 6.518 million TEP common units issued to Tallgrass Development.
On the last days of 2015 Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP), a leading North American provider of energy services, began operating the 270 mile, 20 inch diameter Aegis pipeline connecting Beaumont, Texas to the Mississippi River.
The pipeline will transport ethane to more than 20 petrochemical facilities dotting the Texas and Louisiana Coasts.
thyssenkrupp has announced that it will provide quality flat steel and logistics for a 440 km liquid gas pipeline running the length of Texas, the second biggest state in the USA, from Baden to Mont Belvieu. 44,000 tons of hot wide strip in grade X70 steel is required for the construction of the pipeline. The steel is a micro-alloyed fine-grain grade with a yield strength of 485 MPa.
Fluxys has tied up an agreement with Gazprom to acquire the Russian gas giant's 10 percent stake in the UK Interconnector, owner and operator of the offshore pipeline between the UK and Belgium.
In line with EU energy policy to diversify sources of energy and thereby enhance European energy security, Bulgaria and Greece have signed a landmark natural gas pipeline investment agreement dubbed the Interconnector Greece Bulgaria (IGB) -- the last step in the development process before construction begins.
ABB, a global leader in power and automation technologies, has won a large contract for the 1850 km Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP).
Last week the Senate Commerce Committee passed the Safe Pipes Act, a preliminary step to reauthorize the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) before House and ultimately Executive Level approval.
Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) have agreed to work together to develop an estimated $10 billion, 1800 km transnational gas pipeline that would distribute Turkmen gas throughout the "perpetually energy-short" region.
Statoil has awarded contracts with a value estimated at slightly less than 2.5 billion Norwegian Kroner for the line pipe, coating and pipe installation of the Johan Sverdrup export pipelines.
In the wake of Iran's nuclear agreement with the P5+1 (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia, plus Germany), opening the door for Iranian exports of its hydrocarbons, the moribund Iranian - Indian Gas Pipeline Project is being revived with great fanfare.
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced today that negotiations relating to the development of the Turkish Stream Pipeline Project have been suspended, particularly since "an intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation has stopped meeting."
Statoil has announced that it is selling its interest in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) to Snam SpA for €208 million.
Up to now, TAP’s shareholding has been comprised of BP (20%), SOCAR (20%), Statoil (20%), Fluxys (19%), Enagás (16%) and Axpo (5%). Snam SpA will be assuming Statoil's 20 % share and previous role in the consortium.
The Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) has announced that it will post its inspection reports of the country's 73,000 km pipeline it oversees on the regulator's website.
PetroChina, China's biggest energy producer, will divest a 50 percent stake in Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Co. to a unit of China Reform Holdings Corp., another state-owned company that acts as an investment firm charged with revamping government-run entities.
In a controversial decision highlighting a major dispute between local and federal governments in Canada, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled that the National Energy Board's decision to allow the development of Kinder Morgan's 1000 km Trans Mountain Pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia takes precedence over the city of Burnaby’s enacted provisional law aimed at stopping the e
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.