Russia plans to significantly accelerate its pipeline building activities this year as part of the plans for diversification of its oil and gas deliveries from the West to Asian and Middle East directions.
Russia has traditionally exported its oil and gas through pipelines, with the majority of the volume being intended for the EU market.
For several years, the EITEP Institute is organizing English language seminars on pipeline related topics as part of the international Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc) in Berlin.
The famously known East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is a clone of the never-implemented Uganda-Kenya Crude Oil Pipeline (UKCOP), shaped by political intrigues within the EAC bloc, a report published on ScienceDirect by Brandon Cannon and Stephen Mogaka reveals.
As the energy crisis in Europe continues to hit the European Union member states hard, the oil and gas industry in Saudi Arabia is very promising. According to Engineer Abdullah S. Al-Zahrani, an expert consultant in the oil and gas industry specializing in drilling and exploration, the Master Gas System expansion phase III project would be a significant boost to the Saudi oil and gas markets.
The prevailing energy crisis in Europe has exposed the EU's underlying problems that were overlooked for many years.
When Vladimir Putin decided to attack Ukraine, he opened a new chapter in European history. Russia has started a war against Ukraine. This is not only a threat for Ukraine, but also for Europe as a whole, for the security of Europe.
Facing this conflict, the EU is standing together as one, together with the US. It has been long since such a scenario could be seen - if ever.
The flagship European conference and exhibition for the international pipeline industry, the Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc), will open its gate for the 17th time from 7 – 10 March 2022 in Berlin.
2020 will be remembered as the year the Covid 19 pandemic changed the world. But there was also a conspicuous growing momentum behind the campaign to address the longer-term global challenge of climate change. More and more countries made pledges to achieve "net zero" emissions.
With around 1,000 participants and an above-average number of participants from pipeline operators, the Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc) is a unique meeting place for the exchange of operator knowledge across national borders and continents. This defining characteristic was confirmed again this year at the purely online ptc.
Given the medical imperatives of our time, the 16th Pipeline Technology Conference, initially planned as a hybrid event, will morph into an online-only event.
After the first Virtual Pipeline Summit (VPS) was held in June with great success, the 2nd VPS on “Leak Detection and Third-Party Impact Prevention” took place on 7 October 2020.
Building on the groundbreaking success of the first Virtual Pipeline Summit (VPS) earlier this year 30 June 2020 which attracted over 600 participants from around the world, the EITEP Institute, the summit’s organizer, is readying to launch the second VPS on 7 October 2020.
The latest Concawe report on ‘’Performance of European cross-country oil pipelines - statistical summary of reported spillages in 2018 and since 1971” is now available online.
The key message of the report is that there is no ageing in the pipeline systems due to high-quality supervision and maintenance programs.
Following the lessons learned from the first-ever online Pipeline Technology Conference in March 2020 the organizing EITEP Institute developed a new Virtual Pipeline Summit (VPS) series of events.
