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Prime Minister hails growing trilateral ties as leaders push ahead with project that could feed 20 billion cubic meters of natural gas to a growing European market.

The leaders of Cyprus, Israel, and Greece on Tuesday agreed to push ahead with an envisioned pipeline that will supply east Mediterranean gas to Europe as the continent seeks to diversify its energy supply.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the East Med pipeline a “very serious endeavor” that’s important for Europe, which is looking for ...

Uzbekistan plans to join an $8 billion project to build a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to India, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said on Monday, although it was unclear whether Tashkent might eventually ship gas through it.

Turkmenistan, which sits on the world’s fourth-biggest gas reserves and borders Afghanistan, started this year laying the Afghan section of the pipeline which will also cross Pakistan, seeing it as key to diversifying exports away from China.

Uzbekistan also exports gas, mainly to China and ...

Countries that are part of the UA$10 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project have approved an acceleration plan in a bid to cut the time required for constructing the pipeline and make it ready before the deadline, disclosed an official.

The targeted time for completing the project was 2020, but now under the acceleration plan, the participating countries will be able to lay the transnational pipeline next year.

“Steering committee of the TAPI pipeline project has approved a plan in this regard,” ...

Romanian state-owned natural gas transporter Transgaz has signed the deal for the three gas compressor stations within the Bulgaria-Romania-Hungary-Austria gas pipeline (BRUA). The winning consortia which will build the stations was fined in the past for bid rigging with Transgaz, local Economica.net reported.

The consortium is led by INSPET Ploiesti, which will execute the EUR 62.7 million contract. Seven other companies are part of the winning consortium: Petroconst, Moldocor, Habau PPS Pipeline Systems, IRIGC Impex, Sutech, TIAB and Roconsult Tech.

The winner ...

The new 865-km pipeline will be from the Amosing and Ngamia fields to the port of Lamu on the Indian Ocean.

Speaking to Reuters, Keith Hill, chief executive of Africa Oil, said that the company discussed a few pipeline companies about coming in as a strategic partner on the pipeline. He further said to the source that the company is expecting to come to an agreement before mid-2018.

Commenting on the project, Tullow Oil, which is one of the partners in the ...

Tall Oak Midstream III LLC, Oklahoma City, has launched a nonbinding open season to secure prospective shippers for a proposed natural gas residue pipeline in Southeast Oklahoma. The 80-mile Arkoma Residue Capacity (ARC) Pipeline will connect to Tall Oak’s planned Panther Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant in Hughes County, Okla., and a planned receipt point off the Enable Gas Transmission line. The ARC Pipeline will transport residue gas from the two points to interconnects to the south near Bennington, Okla.

The ...

The armed Taliban group has announced support for the “Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan India” (TAPI) gas pipeline project, the group said in a statement.

“TAPI is an important economic project in the region and the Taliban group will cooperate for its implementation in the areas that are under the control of the group,” the statement reads.

The Taliban group has also called on involved countries of the TAPI project to take a guarantee for the impunity of this project from the United Nations.

The ...

GAIL (India) Limited has started pipeline construction work in the state of West Bengal for providing gas supply to Matix Fertilizers, Durgapur.

This project is being executed as a part of the ‘Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga’ pipeline project i.e. Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro-Dhamra natural gas pipeline (JHBDPL) project and is being executed on a fast track basis. A total of 555 km long pipeline with an approved cost of approximately Rs. 2700 crore in West Bengal will pass through eight districts like ...