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Gazprom Plant Connected To Russia-China Gas Pipeline Shuttered Due To Fire
Gazprom Plant Connected To Russia-China Gas Pipeline Shuttered Due To Fire China’s energy crunch has resulted in power rationing in more than half of the provinces and affected the world’s biggest production base for electronic gadgets to semiconductors to appliances, among other things. Beijing has ordered energy firms to “secure supplies at all costs” as winter fast […]
Nationwide Blackout Hits Syria After Gas Pipeline Bombed
Nationwide Blackout Hits Syria After Gas Pipeline Bombed A blackout has reportedly plunged all of Syria into darkness Friday into Saturday, with Syria’s state-run SANA announcing the nationwide power outage is due to an attack on a gas site and pipeline in southern Damascus. Into the overnight hours, electricity reportedly returned to much of the capital of Damascus, […]
Europe Needs Nord Stream 2 More Than It Likes To Admit
Europe Needs Nord Stream 2 More Than It Likes To Admit When construction began on the second Nord Stream pipeline that was going to double the volume of natural gas ships to Europe—most of it to Germany—the European Union wasted no time in voicing its opposition to more Russian gas. Led by Ukraine, which fears […]
Cyberattack Forces Shutdown Of Largest Gasoline Pipeline In United States
Cyberattack Forces Shutdown Of Largest Gasoline Pipeline In United States The largest gasoline pipeline on the East Coast, and the US in general, was shut down on Friday after its operator struggled to contain a cyberattack which threatened its systems. The 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline, which is the single largest refined-products pipeline in the United States, halted transit […]
There’s No Stopping The World’s Most Politically Charged Pipeline
There’s No Stopping The World’s Most Politically Charged Pipeline This week, Denmark granted Gazprom approval for its Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, a project that is set to bring 55 billion cubic meters of Russian gas into Europe annually. It is one of the most controversial pipeline projects in the world and is now moving ahead […]
The Ins and Outs of Israel’s Pipeline to Europe.
The Ins and Outs of Israel’s Pipeline to Europe. Israel announced a major pipeline project from the gas fields off its shore involving four countries, terminating in northern Italy. The EastMed Pipeline could be one of the longest in history as well as one of the most technically difficult to pull off. The deal was […]
Russian South Stream 2.0 Comes Out of the Shadows
Russian South Stream 2.0 Comes Out of the Shadows Russia and Turkey have announced that the two countries have reached significant progress in reviving the November 2014-shut down South Stream gas pipeline intended to land Russian gas across the Black Sea. The project is the part of the already secured open tender contracts for purchases […]
Trump Firmly In the Twilight Zone: Threatens Nord Stream 2 With Sanctions
Trump Firmly In the Twilight Zone: Threatens Nord Stream 2 With Sanctions Trump’s vise on the EU started with steel, progressed to cars, then to Iran, and now to a gas pipeline vital to the EU. The story of the day, not discussed in mainstream media, involves Nord Stream 2, a gas pipeline between Russia […]
TransCanada’s New ‘Best-In-Class’ Gas Pipeline Explodes in West Virginia, Causing Fiery Blast
TransCanada’s New ‘Best-In-Class’ Gas Pipeline Explodes in West Virginia, Causing Fiery Blast This morning, residents of Marshall County, West Virginia, awoke at 4:15 a.m. to a major natural gas rupture and explosion on TransCanada’s Leach XPress pipeline on Nixon Ridge — a quickly built pipeline only half a year old. The fire was visible for miles, […]
The Natural Gas War Burning Under Syria
The Natural Gas War Burning Under Syria Qatar always wanted to punch above its weight. In Syria, it got the chance. In 2009, Qatar, a leading natural gas producer, approached Syria about routing its planned 1,500 mile pipeline to the gas markets of Europe through Syria’s Aleppo province. Qatar wanted a pipeline straight to Europe as its current […]
The US-Russia gas pipeline war in Syria could destabilise Putin
The US-Russia gas pipeline war in Syria could destabilise Putin Military solutions are not the answer to the perfect storm of climate, energy, food, economic and geopolitical crises facing Russia For the last few years, the Saudi kingdom’s insistence on pumping oil at high capacity has dramatically depressed oil prices. The result has undermined Saudi’s major oil […]
Nord Stream Two: Implications for Europe
Nord Stream Two: Implications for Europe Russia, Germany, and a consortium of Western European companies have re-activated the Gazprom-led Nord Stream Two gas pipeline project. Parallel to the existing Nord Stream One pipeline on the Baltic seabed, Nord Stream Two would double the system’s total capacity to 110 billion cubic meters (bcm) annually, all earmarked […]
