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Israel is negotiating a $15 billion agreement to supply natural gas to Jordan. If the deal goes through, Israel will pipe 1.6 trillion cubic feet of gas over a period of 15 years to the Hashemite Kingdom. Texas-based Noble Energy jointly operates the giant Leviathan field from which the gas will be supplied. Keith Elliott, Noble

Slovakia on Tuesday opened a pipeline capable of delivering natural gas from the European Union to Ukraine, marking a major step in the bloc’s efforts to aid the country in its escalating dispute with Russia. Opening up so-called reverse gas flows eastward is part of the EU’s response to Gazprom’s decision to cut supplies to Kiev on June 16 in a row over pricing and in the wake of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin today launched the construction of what will be one of the largest gas pipelines in the world, stretching from China to the Russian Far East, in the village of Us Khatyn in Yakutia. China

Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) announced new investment in infrastructure that will enable it to transport up to 1.5 Bcf/d of natural gas from Marcellus and Utica production areas to markets served by its Columbia Gas Transmission and Columbia Gulf Transmission pipeline systems. The new investments include two significant projects, one of which involves construction by Columbia Transmission of a new natural gas pipeline in Ohio and West Virginia that will enhance its existing infrastructure and support natural gas supply ...

Shell has struck a deal to sell some of its onshore oil and gas fields in the Niger delta amid rising concern about oil spills, sabotage and industrial-scale theft from Nigerian wells and pipelines of up to 400,000 barrels a day. Last summer, Ben van Beurden, the new chief executive, promised to scale down operations in Nigeria and is now poised to sell four fields and a pipeline for what some believe could be $5bn (

India’s state-owned gas utility GAIL is set to start work on a Rupees 100 billion ($1.66 billion) pipeline project that will connect the eastern part of the country to the main gas grid, the company said Sunday. The Jagdishpur-Phulpur-Haldia gas pipeline will be 2,050 km (1,271 miles) long, consisting of a 922-km main line and 1,128-km spur and feeder lines. The pipeline, which will have a capacity of 16 million cu m/d (565,000 Mcf/d) in the first phase, ...

Nepal and India have formally begun talks on developing the much-delayed 41-km Amlekhgunj-Raxaul petroleum pipeline project. During his Nepal visit in the first week of August, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had pledged expediting the project. Officials at Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Wednesday held talks on probable routes to lay the pipeline after field inspections in Amlekhgunj. A 12-member high-level IOC delegation arrived to Nepal on Tuesday evening for the talks. ...