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Thailand’s government plans to liberalise the country’s gas pipeline business, which is monopolised by energy giant PTT Pcl, by the middle of 2015, energy policy makers said. State-controlled PTT will spin off the business by transferring the pipeline and related assets to a new entity, according to a statement from the National Energy Policy Council (NEPC), chaired by junta leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha. The liberalisation will give other companies access to the country’s gas pipelines and links to ...

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has launched a binding open season to solicit commitments for the proposed $US1 billion Palmetto Project, which involves expanding the capacity of an existing pipeline and constructing a new pipeline to move gasoline, diesel, and ethanol from Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina to sites in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The approximately $US1 billion project has a design capacity of 167,000 bbl/d and will consist of a segment of expansion capacity that Palmetto would lease ...

Petrofac, the international oil & gas facilities service provider, has secured a contract with the BP-operated prestigious Shah Deniz 2 project to provide their maintenance build capabilities. The contract, valued at around

he European Commission said it had delayed indefinitely a decision on whether to allow Russia greater access to the Opal gas pipeline in northeastern Germany, even though its approval would improve the security of gas supply to Central Europe. Russian gas giant Gazprom’s access to the pipeline has been limited by an EU law that seeks to prevent energy suppliers from dominating infrastructure. But no one else has taken up the spare capacity, and Western analysts and Russian ...

n operational agreement on the Tapi gas pipeline was signed by Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Federal Minister for Petroleum Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Inter-State Gas Systems

Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) announced today that it is stopping the clock on the review of Kinder Morgan

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. ...