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TransCanada Corp , whose controversial Keystone XL pipeline project has waited more than six years for U.S. approvals, is asking the Obama administration to approve another pipeline, one that would take American crude oil into Canada. The company, Canada’s No. 2 pipeline operator, said it applied on Wednesday for a presidential permit for its planned Upland pipeline, which will carry as much as 220,000 barrels of oil per day 240 miles (386 kilometers) from Williston, North Dakota, to meet ...

Production tests have started on 50 kilometers of the Iranian section of a pipeline built to carry natural gas from southern Iran to neighboring Iraq. Ali-Reza Gharibi, managing-director of Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company, said pigging is expected to be done on this stretch of the pipeline.

A new 200-mile long pipeline will carry natural gas from a shale basin in Texas to an international connection at the Mexican border, ONEOK Partners announced. The company, which has headquarters in Oklahoma, said it formed a joint venture with Mexican gas transmission company Fermaca Infrastructure to build the Roadrunner pipeline that would transport gas from the Permian shale basin in Texas to the Mexican market. « We see Roadrunner as a gateway asset that will connect Mexico’s rapidly growing ...

Militants of the Urhobo minority ethnic group blew up a natural gas pipeline in Nigeria’s Delta state in the early hours on Friday, a Nigerian official said on Saturday. « The Urhobo militants who carried out the attack have claimed responsibility, » said Isa Ado, spokesman for the Pulo Shield taskforce, made up of members of various Nigerian security forces investigating oil theft in Nigeria’s oil-producing delta region. Ado added that the militants were trying to ...

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