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Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said there were delays in planning on the Russian side in developments of the planned Turkish Stream gas pipeline. Yildiz told the state-backed Anadolu News Agency that Russian planners delayed delivering route coordinates for the pipeline through his country. « Turkey could not begin any construction without these coordinates, » he said. Russian energy company Gazprom said in February it surveyed the Turkish land route for the 110-mile section of pipeline from the Black ...

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Work on the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project is expected to begin in September, Pakistani Federal Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said. Abbasi said the project is planned for completion over the course of 30 months, Iran

Canada’s provincial Northwest Territories government has been talking to pipeline companies about shipping crude oil through the

The pipeline operator MPLX said on Monday that it had agreed to acquire MarkWest Energy Partners, in a deal that values the company at about $20 billion, including debt. The deal would combine two companies structured as so-called master limited partnerships to own oil pipelines and petroleum or natural gas storage assets. The combined company would have a market capitalization of about $21 billion. Under the terms of the deal, MarkWest shareholders would receive the equivalent of $78.64 ...

A proposal requiring pipeline operators to report spills within an hour of their discovery will help mitigate damage, the U.S. transportation secretary said. The Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is proposing a mandate that would require pipeline operators to issue spill notifications no later than one hour after a confirmed release. « We constantly seek to raise the bar on safety, » Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a statement. « This proposed rule will improve safety ...

Negotiations on the company, which will head the Turkmenistan-based pipeline project through Afghanistan and Pakistan to India are underway with the French company Total and a member of the Rostec company RT Global resources, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Monday. « Negotiations with France’s Total and Russian RT Global Resources regarding the syndicate for the TAPI project are under way. The parties reached agreement on the schedule during the last meeting of TAPI’s steering committee. It is expected that ...