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French energy major Total is expected to win project financing contract for the TAPI gas pipeline project, according to Pakistani newspaper Express Tribune. Ministers of four countries, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India will meet on February 11 in Islamabad and attend a meeting of the steering committee on the gas pipeline project, officials have told the newspaper. According to officials, Turkmenistan has agreed, in principle, to sign a service contract with Total, allowing the company to act as ...

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Route for the new gas pipeline across the Black Sea between Russia and Turkey was approved yesterday at working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Taner Yildiz, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources held yesterday in Ankara. The four strings will have an aggregate capacity of 63 billion cubic meters a year. 660 kilometers of the pipeline

The Ukrainian prime minister announced a pipeline deal with neighboring Poland that diversifies the energy sector with better access to liquefied natural gas hubs. Ukrainian company Naftogaz signed a deal with its Polish counterparts, Gaz-System, to build a pipeline between the two countries. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said the deal ensures his country remains an important hub in the European energy market. It’s not a reverse pipeline, « but it means an access to gas from the LNG ...

Russia plans to shift all its natural gas flows crossing Ukraine to a route via Turkey, a surprise move that the European Union

Brazil will start the development of its 10-year Plan for Expansion of Gas Pipelines (PEMAT) with an auction for the concession of the 11-km (7 miles) long Guapimirim-Itaborai stretch. Brazil published the draft rules earlier this month of its first public tender to build and operate a natural gas pipeline. The call for bids from petroleum, natural gas and biofuels agency ANP is open until April 10, with a public hearing in Rio de Janeiro scheduled for February ...