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ROMPCO announced expansion of Mozambique gas pipeline

The Republic of Mozambique Pipeline Investments Company (ROMPCO) announced that it will expand the capacity of the existing 865 km of gas pipeline from the Central Processing Facility (CPF) at Temane in Mozambique to Secunda in South Africa. The project involves the installation of a pipeline parallel to the existing pipeline, from scraper station 1 (STS1), which is about 128 km from the CPF, over a length of 127 km where it connects back into the main pipeline at scraper ...

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Pipeline Market Overview – New projects in the world in the last 12 months – December 2015

New pipeline projects in the world in the last 12 months 2015 12   Click to enlarge

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America’s first shale gas export terminal starts production

Cheniere Energy Inc. began production at what will become the first terminal to export natural gas from America

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U.S. Congress Kills US Oil Export Ban

The U.S. Congress voted last week to repeal the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil in an energy policy shift sought by Republicans as part of a bipartisan deal that also provided unprecedented tax incentives for wind and solar power. The Senate, on a 65-33 vote, passed a $1.1 trillion government spending bill that included the measure to lift the export ban and provide five-year extensions of tax breaks to boost development of renewable energy. Earlier in the ...

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Turkmenistan completes East-West gas pipeline

The president of Turkmenistan says the completion of a new gas pipeline will boost cooperation with European partners. Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov was speaking at a launch ceremony on December 23 in the small town of Belek near the shores of the Caspian Sea. The East-West pipeline connects Turkmenistan

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Construction of the TAPI gas pipeline started.

Construction of a much-anticipated $10-billion pipeline transporting natural gas from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India began this month, 25 years after the inception of the project. The so-called Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project aims to export up to 33 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas per year through the approximately 1,800-kilometer pipeline. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Indian vice president, Hamid Ansari, together with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedoy attended the groundbreaking ceremony ...

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U.S. on verge of lifting 40-year oil export ban

According to Reuters, the United States appears on the brink of ending a four-decade ban on most exports of crude oil, which would end a years-long fight brought about by a boom in domestic shale output that contributed to a supply glut and depressed prices. The measure is part of a sprawling deal wrapped up by congressional leaders late on Tuesday to keep the U.S. government open through September. The $1.15 trillion spending bill, negotiated in secret talks over ...

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Russia and Turkey fight is spreading to energy sector

The fallout from the Turkish downing of a Russian jet last month is growing ever more dangerous, with even the seemingly untouchable energy sector now apparently the latest casualty of increasingly chilly ties between Ankara and Moscow. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that construction work had been halted at the $20 billion Russian-led Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey, which was meant to be the culmination of Ankara

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