Pipeline Business

The Energy Ministry of Azerbaijan has announced that construction of the Turkish portion of the Igdir-Nakhchivan gas pipeline will commence soon.

Sri Lanka's President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Tuesday, March 28, disclosed that his government is in discussions with India to construct an oil pipeline to transport fuel to the Eastern Port of Trincomalee.

Canada's ATCO Ltd has agreed to transfer ownership of an unfinished natural gas pipeline in Mexico to the Mexican government after a dispute with the country's state power company, Reuters reported on Thursday, March 30, 2023.

According to two officials who spoke with Reuters, the agreement marks a rare breakthrough in ongoing tensions over energy between the two countries.

Corinth Pipeworks, the steel pipes division of Cenergy Holdings, has secured a contract from ONE-Dyas B.V. to supply High Frequency Welded (HFW) steel pipes for the N05-A platform located in the North Sea, Cenergy Holdings announced through a press release on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) has announced that it plans to secure debt financing by the year's end to construct its 1,443-kilometer oil pipeline, Monitor reported on Wednesday, March 29, 2023.

Cenit, a subsidiary of Colombia's state-run energy company Ecopetrol, has suspended oil pumping operations for 12 days along the Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline due to recent attacks on the infrastructure, the company announced on Tuesday.

ABB India has provided integrated automation and control solutions to Numaligarh Refinery (NRL) for monitoring and managing a 130-km cross-border oil pipeline between India and Bangladesh, Businessline reported on Wednesday, March 29.

Iraq was forced to halt around 450,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) of crude exports from the Kurdistan Region (KRI) on Saturday through an export pipeline that runs from its northern Kirkuk oil fields to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.

“The results of the research are groundbreaking for the future of hydrogen. Of the three main challenges along the value chain - production, transportation and utilization - transportation has now been fundamentally solved." ~
(Prof. Gerald Linke, Chairman of the Board of the Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches (DVGW) -  German Gas and Water Industry Association)

Romania's OMV Petrom and Romgaz have signed a $298.5 million natural gas delivery contract with Transgaz, the country's national gas transmission company, MarketScreener reported yesterday, citing a report published by SeeNews.

Dallas-based Energy Transfer on Monday, March 27, announced its plans to expand its oil pipeline network by over 3,000 miles following the purchase of Lotus Midstream, a Sugar Land energy company, for $1.45 billion, the company announced via a press release.

Denmark and Germany have agreed to build a hydrogen pipeline between the two countries, which is expected to be operational by 2028. The pipeline is expected to help Denmark achieve its target of producing 20 TWh of hydrogen from 4-6 GW of electrolyser capacities by 2030, while also catering to Germany's anticipated demand for 90 TWh of hydrogen by the same year.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced this week that more than $25 million will be made available in grant funding through its pipeline and hazardous materials (hazmat) safety programs.

As a protracted saga over the Trans Mountain pipeline nears the end as the expansion project enters its final phase, some industry experts believe it could be Canada's last major oil pipeline project following a shrinking oil production in Western Canada, CBC news reported last week.

The newly developed HDD45-E horizontal drilling rig is designed for operation in confined spaces due to its compact design.