The first joint of 970 km Ukhta-Torzhok-2 natural gas pipeline with a design capacity 45 billion cubic meters of gas per year was welded this week, a small yet critical event in the construction of the larger Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline System, of which it is part. Nord Stream 2 is currently one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects.
ILF, one of the world's leading engineering companies offering design and consulting services for the development of critical and complex infrastructure projects, has provided the design and supervision services for 1,200 km of four key high pressure natural gas pipelines operated by GAZ-SYSTEM S.A.
Penspen, a leading engineering and management services company based in London, has been awarded a contract worth $4.3 million from Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL), (A Company of Petrobangla) under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources of Bangladesh.
After a decade of protracted negotiations, Russia and Pakistan signed an Inter-Governmental Agreement yesterday on building a 1100-km natural gas pipeline from LNG terminals in southern Pakistan to growing domestic markets in the north. The construction is scheduled to be completed in late 2017.
Leaders of Poland and the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia met today to sign an agreement on a 562 km, 28 inch gas pipeline connecting Poland to Lithuania. The Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) will end the long lasting isolation of the Baltic Sea region and bring energy needed for a new economic development.
Complicating the proposed Uganda - Kenya Crude Oil Pipeline (UKCOP), the governments of Uganda and Tanzania have signed an agreement to study building a pipeline from the oil fields near Hoima, Uganda to the Tanzanian port of Tanga.
A 535-kilometer gas pipeline running from Mtwara, Tanzania to Dar es Salaam, the country's capital, and built with a 1.225-billion-U.S.-dollar concessional loan from the Export-Import Bank of China was inaugurated by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete this past weekend.
Nord Stream Pipeline celebrated a major milestone last week by noting 100 billion cubic metres of Russian natural gas shipped through the Baltic Sea to the European Union since the pipeline opened in November 2011.
After protracted negotiations Ethiopia and Djibouti, its neighbor bordering on the northeast, have signed an agreement for a 550 km products pipeline importing gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from Djibouti's port. The venture is estimated at $1.55 billion and construction forecasted to end by 2018.
Finland and Estonia announced their intention to work together to build a natural gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia, which would connect Estonian and Finnish gas grids. Dubbed the Balticconnector, the pipeline would increase Finnish import capacities by providing access to the Latvia's natural gas storage in Inčukalns.
Months of challenging pipeline construction have culminated this week in the laying of the final pipe in the 482.4 km long Polarled Pipeline project at a depth of 1,260 meters in the Norwegian Sea.
The Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) has announced that it has delayed the release of its recommendation report on Kinder Morgan Inc.’s proposed $5.4 billion, 980 km, 12 pump stations Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project by five months to acquire additional information on the project.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP), which is organizing the transport of natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan to Europe via an 878-km gas pipeline system, is inviting companies to pre-qualify for the supply and delivery of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquistion (SCADA) system and fibre optic cable.
With the submission of a 30,000-page application, environmental resource reports and exhibits – a stack of paper more than 10 feet tall – Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, today formally applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to build a $5 billion, 564-mile interstate natural gas transmission pipeline from West Virginia to North Carolina.
Lack of progress in the Turkish Stream project has prompted the Russians as well as the Turks to explain the hold-up. Not surprisingly the respective explanations vary considerably.