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Russia has proposed to Tokyo building a natural gas pipeline connecting fields in its far east with northern Japan, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Wednesday. The construction of a gas pipeline between the two countries, which has been mooted for decades, would face many obstacles, including a dispute over islands taken by Russian forces at the end of World War II that has prevented Moscow and Tokyo from signing a formal peace treaty. The plan to build a ...

The European Commission remains committed to the ongoing negotiation process with both Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan on the Trans-Caspian pipeline project, according to officials within the Energy Department of the European Commission.

The Northern Territory has moved ahead with plans to build a 1,000-kilometre pipeline, expected to cost more than $1 billion, to supply natural gas to eastern Australia. Chief Minister Adam Giles, an advocate of the plan, used the occasion of the Australia-Japan Joint Business Conference in Darwin to announce the pipeline had been granted « major project » priority status. He said the pipeline, which did not yet have a private backer, needed to be operational by 2018 to avert ...

Arrow Energy Ltd. has received environmental approval from the Australian government for construction of its proposed 4,500-km Arrow Bowen project gas pipeline to link its coal seam gas (CSG) fields in the Bowen basin of Queensland to Gladstone on the central-east coast. The buried line received Queensland state government approval in March 2013, but the federal government green-light follows Arrow