Pipelines

Plans to expand gas pipeline capacity in the Western Balkans risk significantly jeopardising the energy transition in the region.

Gas production in West Texas has surged in recent years. The industry is rushing to construct more pipelines in the Permian. But analysts warn about the risk of overbuilding.

Moldova has managed to replace the gas volumes cut off by Russia’s Gazprom, but the country’s energy import dependency remains a concern.

Nigeria’s Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline has crossed the River Niger, marking a major milestone toward industrialisation, regional energy access, and internal gas distribution, officials said on Tuesday at NOG Energy Week.

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project has secured its first tranche of financing from African and commercial banks, despite intensifying global pressure over its climate and environmental risks.

Critics say blaming the fires on militancy masks another problem plaguing Niger Delta communities: the safety risks of ageing oil and gas facilities.

New research spotlights how the EACOP project is bringing a host of financial and security risks to tens of thousands of women in Uganda who have been displaced by the pipeline.

At CERAWeek, gas executives boasted that demand would grow for years, or even decades to come. But they also see a problem of rising costs for their projects.

The threat of punitive tariffs on Canada has highlighted the country’s dependence on the U.S. market. In response to the threat of a trade war, Canadian officials are eyeing more oil and gas pipeline and export projects to Europe and Asia, but critics warn of doubling down on fossil fuels.

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.