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Russian president Vladimir Putin today launched the construction of what will be one of the largest gas pipelines in the world, stretching from China to the Russian Far East, in the village of Us Khatyn in Yakutia. China

Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) announced new investment in infrastructure that will enable it to transport up to 1.5 Bcf/d of natural gas from Marcellus and Utica production areas to markets served by its Columbia Gas Transmission and Columbia Gulf Transmission pipeline systems. The new investments include two significant projects, one of which involves construction by Columbia Transmission of a new natural gas pipeline in Ohio and West Virginia that will enhance its existing infrastructure and support natural gas supply ...

Shell has struck a deal to sell some of its onshore oil and gas fields in the Niger delta amid rising concern about oil spills, sabotage and industrial-scale theft from Nigerian wells and pipelines of up to 400,000 barrels a day. Last summer, Ben van Beurden, the new chief executive, promised to scale down operations in Nigeria and is now poised to sell four fields and a pipeline for what some believe could be $5bn (

India’s state-owned gas utility GAIL is set to start work on a Rupees 100 billion ($1.66 billion) pipeline project that will connect the eastern part of the country to the main gas grid, the company said Sunday. The Jagdishpur-Phulpur-Haldia gas pipeline will be 2,050 km (1,271 miles) long, consisting of a 922-km main line and 1,128-km spur and feeder lines. The pipeline, which will have a capacity of 16 million cu m/d (565,000 Mcf/d) in the first phase, ...

Nepal and India have formally begun talks on developing the much-delayed 41-km Amlekhgunj-Raxaul petroleum pipeline project. During his Nepal visit in the first week of August, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had pledged expediting the project. Officials at Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Wednesday held talks on probable routes to lay the pipeline after field inspections in Amlekhgunj. A 12-member high-level IOC delegation arrived to Nepal on Tuesday evening for the talks. ...

The company said that it will build a 440-mile crude oil pipeline to connect its Plains Cushing, Okla. terminal to the Valero Memphis Refinery. The $900 million project, called the Diamond Pipeline, is expected to be complete in « late 2016, ». The company said that, during construction, the pipeline will support about 1,500 contract construction jobs in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Once complete, it will support 15 permanent jobs and « generate an estimated $11 million per year in taxes for ...

China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) will establish a joint venture with Uzbekistan state oil company Uzbekneftegaz to build and operate Line D of the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline in Uzbekistan. Upon operation of Line D, the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline will be able to deliver 85 billion cubic meters of gas annually, making it the largest gas transmission system in Central Asia, CNPC said in a press release on its website. CNPC and Uzbekneftegaz also intended to build ...

The capacity of Iraqi Kurdistan’s independent oil pipeline will almost double to at least 200,000 barrels per day by the end of this month, helping the semi-autonomous region increase exports and revenue, industry sources and officials said. Oil revenues are a lifeline for the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, whose peshmerga forces are being supported by U.S. air strikes in their battle against the radical Sunni militants of Islamic State. A joint venture of Anglo-Turkish company ...