
Rolling the dice
Pipeline approval in Canada is becoming a crap-shoot. Gordon Cope takes a look at the odds.
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Pipeline approval in Canada is becoming a crap-shoot. Gordon Cope takes a look at the odds.

Five bombs are reported to have exploded at an oilfield in Northern Iraq on Saturday; two pipelines were damaged but the country’s oil exports have not been affected.

A leading pipeline services company has surpassed its own records for inline inspections in Austria.

Wood Mackenzie have predicted that shale gas will not be able to satisfy domestic demand in China, and CTG and natural gas imports will be necessary to keep up with demand.

TransCanada Corp. has been selected by Shell and its partners to design, build, own and operate the proposed Coastal GasLink project.

A report by APPEA has concluded that even thought here is still uncertainty in the industry, the potential rewards to Australia if the gas industry continues to grow are enormous.

A new IEA energy report has predicted that natural gas use will see huge growth over the coming years buoyed up by demand in China and Asia, even though European demand is likely to decrease.

ABB was awarded a contract to supply automation and safety systems, electrical equipment and related services for a new gas compression station that will serve the natural gas pipeline that runs across northern Turkey.

An independent supplier of emergency pipeline repair systems has been contracted to provide a thorough assessment of the BBL natural gas pipeline.

Russia’s giant Shtokman field is to switch its production to LNG and begin focusing on Asian markets instead of Europe.

Preliminary estimates from the IEA for 2011 show that in the USA, emissions dropped in 2011, largely due to the shift from coal power to natural gas.

Natural gas production in Pennsylvania has quadrupled between 2009 and 2011 due to increased horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.