China has issued a plan to open up its largely monopolized oil and gas pipelines, in a bid to increase the facilities’ efficiency, energy authority said on Monday. The National Energy Administration (NEA) said in the plan that it encourages pipeline operators to open their facilities to each other and to users, including fuel producers, refiners, sellers and other industrial users, when pipelines have extra capacity.
Continue Reading ?Azerbaijan’s foreign minister has said during a visit to Baghdad that his country is open to shipping Iraqi natural gas to Europe. Elmar Mammadyarov said on February 10 that Iraqi authorities had already expressed an interest in shipping gas to Europe via Azerbaijan’s pipeline network. The European Union has been seeking to develop its Southern Gas Corridor project that envisions supplies of gas from countries in the Caspian Basin and Iraq through routes that avoid Russian territory. ...
Continue Reading ?Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said Wednesday that the major oil companies and the state have reached a commercial agreement on terms for a gas pipeline across Alaska. But it’s not a promise to build a pipeline or start moving dirt.
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