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In Russia, energy and politics are rarely far removed from each other. Moscow is renowned for its use of oil and gas as a tool (or a weapon, depending on how you look at it) to get its own way, particularly with its former Soviet neighbors. Georgia, the Baltic countries, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan are just some of the ex-Soviet Union states stung by Moscow over energy. And Ukraine

All three countries agreed to work together on a $300 million dollar (218.3 million euros) project to divert water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The pact was signed at the World Bank’s headquarters in Washington. The project envisions a 180-kilometer (111-mile) pipeline that will channel some 200 million cubic feet of water each year to be desalinated in a new plant on Jordan’s coast at Aqaba. Both Jordanian and nearby Israeli residents would use the water. ...

Marathon Petroleum Corp’s planned 50-mile pipeline in Ohio’s Utica shale play could lead to other projects to move condensate further west or into Canada, an executive told analysts on Wednesday. The $140 million Utica pipeline project, dubbed Cornerstone, « could be the foundation for other projects to ship excess condensate west to refineries or on to Canada to use as a diluent, » Garry Peiffer, executive vice president of corporate planning and investor and government relations, said during a webcast of ...

Although TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has received the lion’s share of media attention, another key border-crossing pipeline benefitting tar sands producers was approved on November 19 by the U.S. State Department. Enter Cochin, Kinder Morgan’s 1,900-mile proposed pipeline to transport gas produced via the hydraulic fracturing of the Eagle Ford Shale basin in Texas north through Kankakee, Illinois, and eventually into Alberta, Canada, the home of the tar sands. Like Keystone XL, the pipeline proposal requires ...

An Ontario naval engineer accused of trying to pass secrets to China may have been in possession of information about Canada

Venezuela inaugurated a major pipeline to transport heavy crude from the prolific Orinoco oil belt in the north of the country to nearby processing facilities. The 25 km long pipeline consists of two lines, one 8 inch in diameter that will transport diluting agent to the Junin-5 field, and another 12 inch pipeline to transport diluted heavy oil to the facilities of state-owned oil company PDVSA for processing. This is the first pipeline from the Junin-5 field for ...

Ukraine Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has announced Ukraine

An affiliate of Houston-based NET Midstream LLC has received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to build and run a pipeline delivering Eagle Ford Shale natural gas to Mexico. The company