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Kyrgyzstan and China have signed an agreement on construction of a gas pipeline crossing from Turkmenistan via Kyrgyzstan to China, the regional media reported on Dec.18 citing a statement by President of the Kyrgyz Republic Almazbek Atambayev. « An agreement was signed with China on the gas pipeline construction worth two billion dollars, » CA-NEWS Agency reported citing the Kyrgyz head of state. In September 2013 it was reported that President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Chinese President Xi Jinping, ...

BP has signed a deal with a group of oil companies to pump gas via a pipeline from a field in Azerbaijan to Italy, giving the European Union an alternative to Russia as a source of pipeline oil. This comes after arguments about gas pricing between Russia and Ukraine made European leaders worry about disrupting shipments of oil, as several major pipelines run through those two countries. The Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan will be expanded to increase production ...

Iran is focusing on exporting natural gas to India along a deep-sea route

In Russia, energy and politics are rarely far removed from each other. Moscow is renowned for its use of oil and gas as a tool (or a weapon, depending on how you look at it) to get its own way, particularly with its former Soviet neighbors. Georgia, the Baltic countries, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan are just some of the ex-Soviet Union states stung by Moscow over energy. And Ukraine

All three countries agreed to work together on a $300 million dollar (218.3 million euros) project to divert water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The pact was signed at the World Bank’s headquarters in Washington. The project envisions a 180-kilometer (111-mile) pipeline that will channel some 200 million cubic feet of water each year to be desalinated in a new plant on Jordan’s coast at Aqaba. Both Jordanian and nearby Israeli residents would use the water. ...

Marathon Petroleum Corp’s planned 50-mile pipeline in Ohio’s Utica shale play could lead to other projects to move condensate further west or into Canada, an executive told analysts on Wednesday. The $140 million Utica pipeline project, dubbed Cornerstone, « could be the foundation for other projects to ship excess condensate west to refineries or on to Canada to use as a diluent, » Garry Peiffer, executive vice president of corporate planning and investor and government relations, said during a webcast of ...

Although TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has received the lion’s share of media attention, another key border-crossing pipeline benefitting tar sands producers was approved on November 19 by the U.S. State Department. Enter Cochin, Kinder Morgan’s 1,900-mile proposed pipeline to transport gas produced via the hydraulic fracturing of the Eagle Ford Shale basin in Texas north through Kankakee, Illinois, and eventually into Alberta, Canada, the home of the tar sands. Like Keystone XL, the pipeline proposal requires ...

An Ontario naval engineer accused of trying to pass secrets to China may have been in possession of information about Canada