The construction of Nordstream II on the floor of the Baltic Sea is fast becoming a contentious issue in Sweden, with the central government seeing the pipeline as a threat to Sweden's security and the local government focusing on the economic benefits that would accrue the Municipality of Gotland.
Surprising decision: After months of protests against the construction of the oil pipeline in North Dakota, the project was stopped now. In the past few weeks, there have been brutal battles between national guerrillas and the police.
Morocco and Nigeria have signalled their readiness to collaborate on the construction of a giant natural gas pipeline which would serve as the engine for widespread economic development throughout west Africa and connect the region to Europe.
US energy giant Sempra informed its partners in the Southern Gas Pipeline Project that it will not proceed with the purchase of shares of the Peruvian Odebrecht Group. Junior partners Grana y Montero of Peru and Spanish energy company Enagas SA are now left looking for alternatives.
The vaunted $45-$65 billion Alaska LNG Project, intending to pipe nearly a trillion cubic feet of gas from the North Slope of Alaska each year for liquefaction at Nikiski before further shipment to customers in the Asia Pacific, was dealt a serious setback when Conoco Phillips, BP and ExxonMobil, all up to now partners in the undertaking, left the project.
Bulgaria and Romania have opened a new, 25-km bi-directional natural gas pipeline running under the Danube River. This will allow Bulgaria to import gas from Europe and accordingly reduce its dependency on Russia for its energy supplies, as ptj reported earlier.
Senior officials from Oman and Iran met in Teheran to discuss the export of Iranian gas to Oman by the end of 2017.
According to Platts, a spokesman for Shell said Monday, “We can confirm that Shell is a member in the Advisory Task Force of the Iran,Oman gas pipeline Project. The scope of the work of the project is subject to confidentiality.”
The Dresser-Rand business, part of Siemens Power and Gas Division, has received orders to supply five gas turbine-driven compressor trains for two pipelines in Mexico.
The customer is the Mexican project developer Fermaca Enterprises (Fermaca)
Despite growing nationwide protests, rising costs and an Obama administration decision to block continued construction until additional environmental studies have been completed, Energy Transfer CEO Kelcy Warren is "100 percent" confident that the Dakota Access pipeline will be built during Donald Trump's presidency.
The route of the € 1.2 billion, 170 km water pipeline from the Shannon River to Dublin and the midlands has been published in Ireland. Some 550 landowners will be affected by the construction.
Calgary-based TransCanada is hopeful that the Trump win in last week's election will resuscitate the oft maligned Keystone XL pipeline rejected on 6 November 2015 by outgoing President Obama and given up for dead.
TransCanada said it was "“evaluating ways to convince the new administration on the benefits, the jobs and the tax revenues this project brings to the table.”
The European Commission has determined after authorizing a feasibility study on a natural gas pipeline from the Leviathan offshore gas field via Cyprus to Greece would cost about $5.7 billion.
Canadian energy company Enbridge announced last week that it is pulling out of the proposed midwestern Sandpiper pipeline, taking a $406-million loss
The on-again off-again 1400 km Angola-Zambia Refined Petroleum Multi-Product (AZOP) Pipeline project will be the highlighted during talks between Angola and Zambia this month.
EU regulators have seemingly undercut their own policy of sanctioning Russia for its transgressions in eastern Ukraine and in the Crimea by