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The decision to fund an alternative gas pipeline through Poland and Lithuania is enormously important for Latvia, as it will end the country’s energy dependence and create an actual alternative for gas supply, Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) said in a press release today. Economy Minister Vja?eslavs Dombrovskis (Reform Party/Unity) agrees, saying that « Latvia currently stands on an « energy island »; we have access to only one gas pipeline, and a regional inter-connection is the only feasible solution, which will ...

More oil is flowing through the U.S. network of pipelines as it expands to accommodate a flood of crude coming out of U.S. wells today. Some 192,400 miles of pipelines ferried crude oil, refined petroleum products and natural gas liquids across the country in 2013, marking a 9.3 percent increase in overall mileage from 2008, according to a new report from the Association of Oil Pipe Lines and the American Petroleum Institute. And last year nearly 15 billion ...

Gianluca Galletti, Italy

In a move aimed at ensuring India

A European company is in talks with Iran to invest in creating Iran

EU authorities, citing tension in Ukraine, have asked for a delay until at least the end of October on whether to allow Russia greater access to the Opal natural gas pipeline in northeastern Germany, a letter seen by Reuters shows. Russian gas exporter Gazprom is currently allowed only limited access to the pipeline under a European Union law which seeks to prevent energy suppliers from dominating infrastructure. But no-one else has taken up the spare capacity on Opal, ...