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PipeWire.net - Today's Top Industry Headlines
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Friday, July 03, 2009
A CONSORTIUM of Italian ENI and Turkey's Calik Energy expects to start constructing a pipeline that will carry Caspian oil to the Mediterranean by the first quarter of next year, Turkey's daily newspaper Hurriyet reported recently, quoting a consortium source.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
ENGINEERING consultant J P Kenny, part of international energy services company John Wood Group, has developed a three-dimensional (3-D) finite-element model for investigating the effects of permafrost, permanently frozen soil, on arctic pipelines. The evaluation aids the selection of proper construction and implementation methods used to minimize the impact to the permafrost and the surrounding environment.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
THE Oman Gas Co (OGC) is undertaking a significant expansion of its gas transportation infrastructure to cater to the requirements of the country's rapidly-growing oil and gas, industrial, and power-generation sectors. The expansion is being carried out through a series of projects presently under way in different areas of the Sultanate, and the upgrade comes on top of a significant augmentation of the company's gas transportation infrastructure capacity last year.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
AUSTRALIAN integrated energy company AGL Energy and transmission company Epic Energy have inaugurated two new gas pipelines and compression facilities in Queensland, marking the opening of the final gas link between the gas markets of South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
IRAQ'S Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said recently that construction of the proposed pipeline to Jordan was currently not feasible because the main pipeline between Kirkuk and Banias on the Mediterranean was inoperative. "Any pipeline to Jordan should be a branch of the main facility between Kirkuk and Banias, which is now damaged and we are trying to repair," he told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum conference at the Dead Sea resort.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
THE Nepali Oil Corp (NOC) and the Indian Oil Corp (IOC) have agreed to build a 41-km hydrocarbon products pipeline between Raxaul in India and Amlekhgunj in Nepal. The two state-owned corporations are preparing plans for the pipeline to facilitate supply of oil to Nepal, which has been facing a petroleum products shortage due to strikes since last year.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
TWO energy companies in the UAE have signed partnerships with two European firms to boost development of gasfields in Kurdistan to provide gas to the proposed Nabucco pipeline project to Europe. The Nabucco pipeline project is being planned in order to transport gas from Iraq, Iran, and the Caspian region across Turkey to markets in Europe, and is seen as a way to reduce European reliance on gas from Russia. The newly-signed agreement calls for a series of equity swaps and purchases between Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum of the UAE, and OMV of Austria and MOL of Hungary.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
ITALY'S ENI and Russia's Gazprom have agreed to increase the South Stream pipeline's capacity to 63bn cum/yr from the initially-planned 31bn cum/yr. The agreement, signed in the presence of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi, is seen as emphasizing Russia's determination to create new export routes for its gas that avoids Ukraine. At the meeting, held in the Black Sea port of Sochi, Gazprom also signed deals with the main energy companies of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece, three of the key transit countries for the pipeline.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
THE European Union and Turkey have confirmed that a major agreement, to be signed in Ankara on 25 June, will represents a major boost to the EU's proposed Nabucco pipeline project, planned to transport gas to Europe from central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. "This is a complete breakthrough," said a senior EU official involved in the tough negotiations with Turkey. "The Turks have accepted our terms. There is no conditionality."
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
PROTESTERS in the Amazon basin have forced Peru's state energy company to shut-down its crude oil pipeline, a company official said in May, as the government tries to end weeks of demonstrations over natural resources. Indigenous communities have blocked roads and waterways to pressure the government to revoke the investment laws that Peru passed under a free-trade pact with the United States, and to revise concessions granted to foreign energy companies. Peru is encouraging investment as it tries to transform itself from a net oil importer into a net exporter.
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