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Bulgaria exits oil pipeline project

Wed, 21 December 2011 Bulgaria has opted out of the approximately 300 km, 42 inch diameter Burgas to Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project.

TDW completes UK pipeline inspections

Wed, 21 December 2011 T.D. Williamson UK has announced that the integrity of the Blyborough to Cottam pipeline, located in England, has been confirmed as the result of an inline inspection operation carried out for E.ON UK.

TAP submits preliminary EIA to Greece

Wed, 12 October 2011 Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG has submitted a preliminary environmental impact assessment to the Greek Ministry of Environment for its approximately 800 km gas pipeline.

Proposal submitted for ITGI system

Wed, 5 October 2011 DEPA, the Public Gas Corporation of Greece, and Edison have submitted a technical proposal and commercial offer to transit gas through their Interconnector Turkey – Greece – Italy pipeline system from the Stage 2 development of the Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan, to markets in south eastern, central and northern Europe via Italy.

Nabucco submits transportation proposal

Tue, 4 October 2011 Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH has submitted a comprehensive transportation proposal to the consortium developing Stage 2 of the Shah Deniz gas field, offshore Azerbaijan.

MoU signed for Russia to North Korea pipeline

Wed, 28 September 2011 A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Gazprom and North Korea’s Ministry of Oil Industry for the construction of a gas pipeline between Russia and the Korean Peninsula.

Tapping into European support

Wed, 28 September 2011 Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG has submitted its application to the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy for the construction of an independent natural gas system in another step towards construction of its approximately 800 km gas pipeline project, and has signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Co-operation with Geoplin plinovodi.

Poland – Czech pipeline opened

Wed, 28 September 2011 An opening ceremony has been held in the Polish town of Cieszyn and on the Czech side near the village of Chotébuz for the approximately 31.5 km gas pipeline interconnector between Poland and the Czech Republic.

South Stream finds new shareholders

Mon, 19 September 2011 Wintershall Holding and EDF have signed a shareholder agreement for the offshore section of the South Stream gas pipeline.

TAP submits Single Authorisation application in Italy

Wed, 14 September 2011 Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG has submitted a Single Authorisation application to the Ministry of Economic Development in Italy for its 800 km gas pipeline.

MoU signed for Slovak-Hungarian gas interconnector

Wed, 14 September 2011 Slovak gas transmission system operator Eustream and MVM Group member company Országos Villamostávvezeték have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pursue the Slovak-Hungarian Gas Pipeline Interconnector Project.

TAP gets TPAs in order

Thu, 8 September 2011 Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG has submitted Third Party Access Exemption applications in all three of the countries – Albania, Greece and Italy – which will host its approximately 800 km gas pipeline.

Nord Stream ties-in diver safety

As Pipelines International goes to print, the second of the two major subsea tie-ins on the first of Nord Stream’s twin 48 inch diameter, 1,224 km long, gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea is being completed by saturation divers working out of a hyperbaric environment at around 110 m water depth.

Pipeline to power the Olympics

The recently commissioned Dzhubga – Lazarevskoye – Sochi Pipeline will not only bring gas to the city of Sochi, Russia, but to the Olympics as well, as Sochi is transformed into a Winter Olympics Games host city and a mountain resort.

Russia and Korea consider new gas pipeline to link countries

Wed, 17 August 2011 Russia and Korea are currently in talks to construct a new natural gas pipeline between the two countries.

IGB pipeline FEED and EIA contract awarded

Mon, 15 August 2011 The Penspen and C&M Engineering Consortium has been awarded the contract for the front-end engineering and design, and environmental impact assessment of the Interconnector Greece – Bulgaria gas pipeline project.

Iran, Iraq and Syria sign on for pipeline to Europe

Wed, 3 August 2011 Iran, Iraq and Syria have signed a $US10 billion trilateral deal to construct a 5,000 km gas pipeline to Europe, according to Iranian news service Shana.

Gazprom welds ahead

Wed, 3 August 2011 Gazprom has welded 981 km of Bovanenkovo – Ukhta pipeline, located in Russia, with 940 km already trenched and buried.

MOUC signed for TAP-IAP interconnection

Tue, 2 August 2011 Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy of Albania have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Co-operation to explore possibilities for connecting the Ionian Adriatic Pipeline to the Trans Adriatic Pipeline system at a tie-in point near Fier, Albania.

New ESIA advisor appointed for Nabucco

Tue, 2 August 2011 D’Appolonia S.p.A. has been appointed as the new Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Advisor for the Nabucco pipeline project.

OPAL pipeline reaches completion

Wed, 20 July 2011 The 470 km Ostsee Pipeline Anbindungs Leitung, the largest natural gas pipeline in western Europe, has reached completion.

Caspian capacity to be increased

Wed, 6 July 2011 The Caspian Pipeline Consortium has started the construction phase of the Caspian pipeline expansion in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.

Offshore works on Nord Stream Pipeline completed

Wed, 22 June 2011 All three sections of the first of Nord Stream’s twin 1,224 km gas pipelines have now been joined together underwater by hyperbaric tie-ins.

ESIA underway in Greece for TAP pipeline

Fri, 10 June 2011 The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has commenced its Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) process in Greece.

Nabucco Project Support Agreements finalised and signed

Thu, 9 June 2011 The legal framework for the Nabucco Pipeline has been finalised with the signing – in Kayseri, Turkey – of the Project Support Agreements between Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH and the responsible ministries of the five transit countries – Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey.