Pipeline Business

Luc Perrad will step into Michael Schad's very big shoes as International Sales Director of the DENSO Group in Germany on 1 March 2021. 

For years oil companies' poor maintenance of Nigerian oil infrastructure including leaking pipelines has devastated the country's Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta.

Baker Hughes, an energy technology company with operations around the world, has developed an onshore composite flexible pipe that lowers the cost of ownership, reduces corrosion risks and lowers manufacturing emissions relative to traditional pipes.

Intero Integrity Services, a leading provider of specialty integrity services for downstream oil, gas and petrochemical infrastructure and Pipetel Technologies, an innovative service company specializing in difficult to inspect gas pipelines, have announced their merger.

Now that President Biden has struck the death knell for TC Energy's Keystone XL, the Trans Mountain pipeline system has taken on greater importance for the oil sector, which is thus far some 22 percent complete and scheduled to go into service in December of 2022.

The Sniffers, an international environmental and integrity service provider, has teamed up with Kayrros, a global carbon tracking company, to provide a methane monitoring solution for gas and energy companies around the world.

NDT Global, the leading supplier of ultrasonic pipeline inspection, acoustic resonance technology (art) and advanced data analytics, a state-of-the-art inspection fleet providing the entire inline service inspection spectrum for oil and gas pipelines, has announced the integration of Halfwave Integration Services from Bergen, Norway into the NDT Global business.

The incoming Biden administration will cancel the 1931-km Keystone XL transboundary tar sands oil pipeline on Inauguration Day, 20 January, in line with President-Elect Biden's many gloomy prognostications on the pipeline.

Quest Integrated, LLC and Qanta Inline Devices, LLC, two highly respected technology leaders in the far-reaching pipeline industry, have decided to merge their respective capabilities to form Qi2 Elements, thereby forming the foundation for developing a new technology driven industry leader in providing "superior storage tank and pipeline inspection and integr

Expanding the pipeline infrastructure is key to facilitating the switch to green hydrogen production based on renewable power.

The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Parliament voted last week to create its own foundation for the further construction of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, with the coalition caucuses of the SPD, CDU and even the Linke all voting for this option. The AfD party withheld its vote.

For the first time in their bilateral relationship Germany and Denmark have signed late last month an agreement on gas solidarity to ensure that in times of supply crises they will come to each other's aid and help their neighbor out. Thomas Bareiß, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and Denmark’s Mini

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) AG announced to great fanfare on the very last day of this past year that gas has begun to flow from Azerbaijan to Greece, Bulgaria and Italy.

Outgoing U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette underscored the utility of transporting oil and gas via pipelines in an appearance on CNBC with the network's Abu Dhabi based anchor, Hadley Gamble.

There are subtle, yet dramatic shifts taking place within the hydrocarbon world, with state-owned and operated pipeline companies reading a greener colored handwriting on the proverbial wall.