Pipelines
Europe’s ambitions for a continent-wide hydrogen network are “impractical and unrealistic,” according to a new report. The danger is that hydrogen provides cover for the expansion of the gas system.
The Nord Stream explosion resulted in the largest release of methane in history. And yet it was still a small fraction of the total methane released by the global oil and gas industry.
The Power of Siberia 2 pipeline could carry as much as 50 billion cubic metres of gas per annum across 2,600 km.
The GTN Xpress, an expansion of an existing pipeline that carries Canadian gas to the northwest part of the U.S., admitted that its project may not be financially viable.
An announcement this week at the Arpel-Naturgas conference in Cartagena suggests that the administration of Colombian President Gustavo Petro is putting more emphasis on Venezuelan gas than domestic alternatives.
The Iran gas pipeline attacks point to escalating tensions in the region.
The Trans-Saharan gas pipeline project connecting Nigerian and Algerian gas pipelines to Europe faces uncertainty due to political turmoil and sanctions following the Niger coup.
A hydrogen pipeline from Gulf countries to Europe might represent one of the most cost competitive options on the table amid targets to import 10 million tonnes of the fuel to Europe by 2030 as part of energy transition targets, experts said.
The Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project intends to supply gas to Morocco, 13 West African nations, and Europe, but experts have raised concerns about vulnerabilities based on its long timeline, funding issues, security, regional instability, and environmental and health impact.
Debt negotiations resulted in the approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, an unusual move that shows a “failure of governance” and “a lack of integrity in the whole process,” according to critics.
Security experts question whether it is possible to protect every part of the energy sector’s critical infrastructure, following the explosions at the Nord Stream gas pipelines.