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H.E. Dr. Ali Majedi was Deputy Oil Minister for Foreign Affairs in Iran from 2013-2014. He is Iranian Ambassador to Germany in Berlin since October 2014.

Pipeline op­er­a­tors have long iden­ti­fied pin­hole and es­pe­cially em­bed­ded pin­hole de­fects as a sig­nif­i­cant risk fac­tor in their in­tegrity man­age­ment pro­grams.

While international sanctions against Iran were being enforced, the National Iranian Gas Transmission Company (NIGTC) was quietly building a gas pipeline to neighboring Iraq. And now with most restrictions on Iran lifted the country is ready to begin sending its gas to an energy-starved Basra as well as to other Iraqi cities.

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has awarded a significant contract to Saipem SpA for Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) of the 36-inch offshore pipeline to be built across the Adriatic Sea.

105 years ago (in 1911), the first pipeline in Middle East was completed in Iran by Charlie Richi to move crude oil from Masjed Soleiman to Abadan. From 1911 to the present, the Iranian pipeline industry has expanded its huge network and also improved in the technical and engineering aspects of pipeline operations.

TransCanada, as part of the company's concerted effort to bolster its presence in the North American continent, will spend some $550 million on the construction of a 420-km natural gas pipeline in Mexico.

TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline has received the green light from the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials and Safety Administration (PHMSA) to resume operations at reduced pressure, after a discovered leak nearly two weeks ago forced the company to shut the pipeline down.

BIL (Bundesweites Informationssystem zur Leitungsrecherche), the first nation-wide web-portal for line information in Germany to allow "one-call" functionality, went live on the 29th of February 2016. More than 100 guests took part in the official event at the Red Dot Design Museum in the area of Zeche Zollverein in Essen.

With the establishment of a $200 million initial budget to fund the next phase of the development of the 1600-km Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, the shareholders of the TAPI Company Limited have paved the way for long-term natural gas supplies that will strengthen regional economies as well as regional energy security.

In a decision highlighting a new openness and transparency regarding regulatory operations that protect public safety and the environment, the National Energy Board of Canada will require pipeline companies to publish their emergency procedures manuals online for public viewing by 30 September 2016.

The transportation of fluids and gases in pipelines is still increasing all over the world and with very good reason: Pipelines are the safest and most economical transportation systems for long distances.

BARTHAUER is attending the 11th Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc) in Berlin - Europe’s leading platform for oil and gas sector technologies. In the course of the exhibition, the Braunschweig-based software company is presenting the new information system for the oil and gas industry: BaSYS PIMS. BARTHAUER is actively participating in the conference with a presentation as well.

The protracted low price oil/gas environment is beginning to take its toll on the pipeline industry in the United States, with some companies laying off workers by the hundreds.

The Australian energy infrastructure owner DUET Group has agreed to buy out Alcoa of Australia of its 20 percent share of the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP) for US$154 million.

Tallgrass Development has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Rockies Express Holdings, LLC, has signed a purchase agreement with Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, to acquire Sempra's 25 percent interest in the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) for approximately $440 million in cash.

The Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI), of Falls Church, Virginia, has funded a project resulting in the successful testing of a drone equipped with a methane gas sensor able to detect methane gas with a greater sensitivity than previously available.

Georgia Oil and Gas Corporation (GOGC) which own the high-pressure gas pipeline network in Georgia, has announced a tender for construction-rehabilitation of DN 300 Telavi-Akhmenta 27 km section of the Kakheti main gas pipeline. The deadline, just over a week away, is 4 April 2016.

The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) has refused a request made by Dakota Access, subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, to expedite the final permit to construct the 558 - km Iowa portion of the 1825-km, 30 inch diameter interstate Bakken crude oil pipeline.

In the wake of a number of recent high-profile pipeline gas leaks / explosions in the United States and resulting uncertainty among U.S.

TransCanada confirmed rumors reported in these pages last week that the company will acquire Houston-based Columbia Pipeline Group and its 24,000-km pipeline network for $13 billion, creating one of the largest regulated natural gas transmission businesses in North America.

Kinder Morgan, sponsor of the proposed 340 km Palmetto Petroleum Products Pipeline to be built from South Carolina through the eastern part of Georgia into Florida, suffered another legislative setback this past week when the Georgia Senate denied the company the power to condemn property along the pipeline right-of-way, otherwise known as the right of eminent domain.

The Pipeline Technology Journal (ptj) will be available as a Chinese edition from April 2016 on. This has been agreed between the ptj-publisher and a Chinese partner company associated with PetroChina, the country’s biggest oil and gas group.

TransCanada is reportedly in talks to acquire Columbia Pipeline Group in the United States in a deal worth $12 billion in total.

Israel Natural Gas Lines announced last week that a gas pipeline currently being constructed in the Dead Sea area will begin supplying gas from the Tamar reservoir in the Mediterranean to private customers in Jordan next year.

Coinciding with the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) awarding of contracts last week for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of approximately 760 km of cross-country onshore pipeline in Greece and Albania, the European Commission ruled that the Host Government Agreement between Greece and TAP conformed with EU state aid rules, opening the way for the new gas pipeline to enter Europ