BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal regulators are recommending approval of two natural gas pipelines that could sharply increase fuel shipments from the Rockies to population centers in the Midwest and on the West Coast.
Combined, the proposed pipelines would move almost 2 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day — enough to fuel about 9 million homes. It would amount to a roughly 25 percent increase ov
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New portable, ultrasonic corrosion-monitoring thickness gauges
Posted by Editor 298 days ago (http://www.pipewire.net)
THE DM5E family is the latest generation of portable, ultrasonic, corrosion-monitoring thickness gauges from GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies. The new range of gauges are designed to offer improvements in performance over previous corrosion-thickness gauges in terms of better thickness measurement stability and repeatability at normal and, especially, at elevated temperatures. The units have
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Enterprise acquiring Teppco in $3.3 billion deal
Posted by Editor 311 days ago (http://www.pipewire.net)
US OPERATOR Enterprise Products Partners LP is acquiring Teppco Partners LP in an all-stock deal valued at $3.3 billion, forming what the companies have said will be one of the US' largest publicly-traded energy-pipeline partnerships. The acquisition will unite the two closely-linked pipeline operators, which are themselves controlled by a general partnership company owned by Houston billionaire
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Iran invites Russia and others to invest in the Caspian pipeline
Posted by Editor 318 days ago (http://www.pipewire.net)
RUSSIAN and other international companies are being invited to submit bids for the construction of an oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Gulf of Oman, the government of Iran announced recently. Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Noureddin Shahnazizadeh told a delegation in Moscow that his country has concluded initial studies for the $2-billion pipeline, and would move forward with the contract ph
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China to construct trans-Burmese oil and gas pipelines
Posted by Editor 348 days ago (http://www.pipewire.net)
IT IS UNDERSTOOD that China is planning to start construction of twin oil and gas pipelines through Burma in September with the aim of reducing the journey time for crude oil imports from the Middle East and Africa, the China Securities Journal reported recently. 'The pipelines in [Burma] will be built under the name of CNPC but whether CNPC or PetroChina undertakes the construction of the domest
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PetroChina to buy pipelines from parent
Posted by Editor 370 days ago (http://www.pipewire.net)
ASIA'S largest oil and gas producer, China's PetroChina, is to purchase two pipelines in western China from its state-owned parent, China National Petroleum Co, for about $1.4 billion. The assets to be acquired include a crude oil pipeline and a refined oil pipeline, each 1,858km long, running from Urumqi in the west to the Lanzhou in Gansu, in the east. The crude and refined oil pipelines have d
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Israel constructs fuel pipeline to Gaza
Posted by Editor 390 days ago (http://www.pipewire.net)
ISRAEL has completed construction of an energy pipeline to Gaza. The Israel Defence Force's Civil Administration co-ordinated the project with representatives of the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the construction was undertaken by both Israeli and Palestinian crews. In a statement regarding the new pipeline, the Israeli army said it 'will continue to work in order to improve the humanitarian si
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Building oil pipeline to Jordan "not feasible"
Posted by Editor 434 days ago (http://www.pipewire.net)
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 sidel
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