Politics & Regulation

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Norway is using its still prodigious natural gas reserves and extensive natural gas pipeline system to help Germany through its present supply difficulties.

The Kuwait Oil Company announced on Monday, March 20, that it had declared a state of emergency after an oil spill occurred on land due to a pipeline leak, as environmental activists criticized the incident as a "recurring problem" in the Gulf state, France 24 reported.

Moscow, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday that Russia and China had reached an agreement on the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline. The new pipeline will connect Siberia to northwest China and will be a 2600-km pipeline originating in the Bovanenkovo and Kharasavey gas fields in Yamal.

Mongolia's Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene stated on Wednesday, March 15, that the country would determine the route of the proposed Russia-China gas pipeline through its territory once its neighbours agree on costs, Reuters reported yesterday.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev yesterday announced plans to increase the capacity of the country's natural gas pipeline to meet the growing demand in Europe.

According to Azernews, President Aliyev discussed the expansion during meetings with heads of leading German companies in Berlin.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation announced yesterday that its Cedar LNG project had received environmental approval from the British Columbia government, Reuters reported on March 14.

Cedar has also been granted its first permit from the province's energy regulator for an approximately 8.5-kilometer pipeline connecting the project to the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Bangladesh and India plan to launch the recently completed India-Bangladesh pipeline on March 18, providing Bangladesh with a cheaper alternative for transporting its diesel imported from India.

British Columbia's Environment Minister, George Heyman, is currently reviewing the fate of Enbridge's Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission Project, a controversial pipeline project that would carry fracked gas across a complex patchwork of sovereign territories to a new LNG terminal on the coast, Canada's National Observers