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The British Columbia Environmental Assessment Office has permitted Enbridge to modify its proposed Westcoast Connector natural gas pipeline.

Greek gas grid operator DESFA has unveiled plans to construct a $1.12 billion (€1 billion) hydrogen pipeline linking Greece to Bulgaria, forming part of a future European southeastern corridor.

ExxonMobil acquired Denbury Resources for $5 billion, marking its major milestone in the carbon capture and storage (CCUS) sector. According to a report published by Carbon Credit on Friday, the purchase aims to enhance Exxon's CCUS capacity and support its low-carbon energy strategy.

Nova Transportadora do Sudeste (NTS) operating Brazil's largest pipeline system, spanning over 2,000 km, has partnered with Atmos, a provider of pipeline management software.

PCK Schwedt, a German oil refinery, has requested $441 million (€400 million) in government aid from the country's economy ministry to enhance the Rostock-Schwedt pipeline.

A new report by Wood Mackenzie, a global insight business for renewables, energy, and natural resources, suggests that a proposed $5 billion export route linking gas fields in the Barents Sea in Northern Norway to European markets could potentially alleviate the continent's reliance on liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports.

Construction on the 490-km Mountain Valley Pipeline has come to an abrupt halt after an appellate court issued a one sentence stay and did not offer an explanation. Work was halted in the Jefferson National Forest, Virginia.

Pipeline operator Equitrans Midstream said on Tuesday it is evaluating all legal options, including an emergency appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court.

MethaneSAT is a planned American-New Zealand space mission currently scheduled for launch in January 2024. The mission is planned to be an Earth observation satellite that will monitor and study global methane emissions in order to combat climate change.

TenneT, Gasunie Deutschland, Thyssengas and bayernets, four major European energy companies, have published a compelling study entitled "Quo vadis Elektrolyse?" contending that hydrogen power plants and their accompanying hydrogen pipeline transmission grid will secure the energy future of Germany, if not the world.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) was the central focus of a discussion at the Energy Asia 2023 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Companies and countries are clamoring to build Asian carbon storage hubs throughout the region in an attempt to mitigate the harmful effects of carbon emissions.

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, aimed at accessing Asian markets for Canadian oil, will likely redirect its barrels to the U.S. West Coast as Russian oil dominates Asian markets.

Analysts and traders attribute this shift to the rising demand for cheaper Russian oil in Asia due to Western sanctions following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Tenaris, a global manufacturer of steel pipes and related services, has made a significant move with its recent acquisition of the oil and gas division of isOplus. The deal, valued at $10 million, grants Tenaris ownership of isOplus's pre-insulated pipeline systems for district heating and anti-corrosion coatings in Europe.

Decom Engineering (Decom) has invested more than $1.2 million to develop its largest Chopsaw to date in response to client demand for larger sized subsea pipe-cutting capability.

The C1-46 Chopsaw has been designed to be useable in water depths of up to 2,000 meters and can cut pipes up to 46” of a wide range of materials in any orientation.

The Scotland-based pipeline service provider STATS Group and the Japanese company Mitsui & Co have agreed over the purchase of 100% of STAT Group’s shares.

Adnoc Gas, the natural gas subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, on Monday, July 3, announced the award of contracts worth $1.34 billion (Dh4.9 billion) to Petrofac Emirates and the Consortium comprising National Petroleum Construction Co. and CAT International Ltd.

Partners in a major Israeli offshore gas project, Leviathan, announced plans plans to invest $568 million in the construction of a third pipeline, Reuters reported.

According to the announcement, the planned pipeline is expected to enhance natural gas production and facilitate increased exports from the hydrocarbon-rich sea field.

China's Sinopec has begun producing green hydrogen at a plant - the largest in the country - in the far western region of Xinjiang and announced plans to build a 400 km pipeline from Inner Mongolia to the capital, Beijing, to transport the fuel.

The new pipeline will provide clean energy for local oil refining plants and fuel cell vehicles.

Mexico’s natural gas pipeline network got a huge boost when state power company Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and Esentia Energy Systems signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly invest $300 million to expand the national grid.

With mounting geopolitical problems in the European theater, the cognoscenti have been pondering just where Europe would access hydrogen in quantities that would make the undertaking viable.

Nigeria's Niger Delta region, already plagued by long-standing environmental pollution caused by the oil industry, is facing further devastation as a new oil spill at a Shell facility contaminates farmland and a river.

In a move that could ease the way for Europe's transition to hydrogen as a fuel source, Portugal's REN has started adapting its high-pressure natural gas grid to allow it to carry an up to 10% share of green hydrogen as early this year, the company said last week.

China achieved a significant milestone as it finalized the construction of its longest deepwater pipeline designed to boost the country’s oil and gas transportation capacity.

Israel's abundant natural gas reserves, located in the eastern Mediterranean, have grown by 40% over the past decade due to increased drilling and exploration activities, an industry report said.

Gas production is carried out by four wells connected by two 18-inch, 73-mile subsea tiebacks to a natural gas processing platform located 10 km offshore Dor, Israel.

Alan Armstrong, CEO of Williams Companies, announced at the Reuters Global Energy Transition conference that Williams will complete two natural gas pipeline projects in New Jersey and Louisiana by the end of 2024

A new centrist government in Cyprus has fundamentally revised plans for bringing Mediterranean natural gas to Europe.

As relayed by Reuters, rather than the 2,000 km EastMed pipeline to continental Europe, the new government is proposing a much shorter one linking Cyprus to fields off the coast of Israel. Once in Cyprus, the gas could be converted to LNG and shipped to Europe.