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India’s finance minister said the country needs to double its existing natural gas pipeline infrastructure to diversify the national energy sector. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government aims to add another 9,300 miles to the existing network of about 9,300 miles of pipeline crisscrossing the country. « This will help increase the usage of gas, domestic as well as imported, which in the long-term will be beneficial in reducing dependence on any one energy source, » he said Thursday. ...

Ukraine’s Parliament adopted on first reading a bill under which up to 49% of the country’s gas pipeline network could be sold to foreign investors. This could pave the way for US or EU companies, which have eyed Ukrainian gas transportation system over the last months. Russian daily Vedomosti quotes Ukraine’s Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan as saying the new legislation would contribute to a long-standing reform at the utility Naftogaz Ukraine (also among EU requirements to which billions-worth ...

South Stream d.o.o. entered into a contract with Centrgaz, which won the bidding for the South Stream gas pipeline construction in the Republic of Serbia. Centrgaz, part of Gazprom Group, will focus on design, procurement, construction and installation activities, personnel training and commissioning of South Stream in Serbia. The contract stipulates involving Serbian subcontractors in carrying out certain operations. Taking part in the bidding procedure which started in March 2014 were four bidders, comprised of Russian and Serbian ...

A consortium formed by Brazilian builder Odebrecht and Spanish gas grid operator Enagas won a concession for building and operating a $4 billion natural gas pipeline in Peru, the government said on Monday. The pipeline is key to President Ollanta Humala’s delayed plans to increase domestic natural gas production to feed a future petrochemical hub and meet fast-growing demand as large mining projects come online. The consortium will invest between $3.6 billion and $4 billion to build the 1,000-kilometer-long ...

Spectra Energy plans to ship inexpensive U.S. shale gas into Maine, Maritimes. The company that owns the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline has announced plans to expand its capacity to ship inexpensive U.S. shale gas into Maine and the Maritimes. Houston-based Spectra Energy is responding to a call from New England governors for access to a reliable supply of lower cost energy to generate electricity. But Spectra Energy says it may also bring lower natural gas prices to ...

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At least 15 people were charred to death and 18 suffered burns in a massive explosion in a GAIL-operated pipeline passing through Nagaram village in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. The victims include three women and three children. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu cut short his visit to Delhi and reached the accident site accompanied by Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The blast occurred around 5.30 a.m. in the pipeline maintained by Gas Authority of India Limited carrying ...

The Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq announced on Wednesday its intention to boost its oil exports by including the oil fields it seized in and around Kirkuk in the last two weeks and noted that it would be using the pipeline via Turkey. Iraq’s self-ruling Kurds outlined plans on Wednesday to swiftly ramp up oil exports now that their forces have seized control of Iraq’s main northern oil fields, a move that could tear up the settlement holding Iraq ...