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  • Oil pipeline Druzhba faces a strike

    12/10/2006 10:14:28 PM PST · by eastern · 261+ views
    The strike of Polish workers maintaining the oil pipeline Druzhba (Friendship) is probable to halt Russian oil supplies to Germany and Poland. Workers are ready to come out, reports Oilru.com. However, trade unionists are still not sure whether they should stop the pipeline work or not. If so, Russian oil supplies to Germany and Poland will be jeopardized. Workers of the northern line of Druzhba are not satisfied with the Polish Ministry of economic affairs' intention to replace Pern (the company operating the pipeline) with a new one. Primarily the strike was to start 16 October, then it was postponed...
  • Gas pipeline through Serbia agreed on

    11/17/2006 4:29:31 PM PST · by kronos77 · 8 replies · 465+ views
    BELGRADE -- An agreement has been signed between the Serbian Government, Srbijagas and Russian Gazprom export. The agreement is a memorandum of understanding for the construction of a pipeline that will run 400 kilometers through Serbia, according to Economic Minister Predrag Bubalo. He said that the Government agreed to the signing of the document and that the construction of the pipeline from Bulgaria towards Niš will be a great Greenfield investment for Croatia and North Italy, which will give Serbia alternate routes for receiving fuel. Bubalo said that the construction of the pipeline is very important for Serbia, because it...
  • Boyd on gas tax

    10/28/2006 6:50:00 AM PDT · by thackney · 240+ views
    Petroleum News ^ | Week of October 29, 2006 | Kristen Nelson
    Former state oil and gas director says reserves tax built on false premise Ken Boyd, former director of the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas, told Petroleum News Oct. 17 that the gas reserves tax is “a bad idea … built on a false premise.” You hear a lot about a gas line being a dream for 30 years, he said, “which is just nonsense.” When the gas cap was discovered at Prudhoe Bay, it “surprised the original lessees.” BP ended up with the flank acreage and a lot of the oil while ARCO and Exxon ended up with a...
  • Pipeline puzzle {Alaska Natural Gas}

    10/15/2006 7:37:09 AM PDT · by thackney · 9 replies · 446+ views
    Anchorage Daily News ^ | October 15, 2006 | ADN
    Will Alaskans see the construction of a pipeline to move natural gas from the North Slope to the Lower 48? It's a huge project and the biggest economic issue in Alaska. The question for voters is: Who is best equipped to solve the . . . A central issue in this fall's race for governor concerns how to best push forward a pipeline project to unlock the North Slope's enormous natural gas reserves -- and flood the state with jobs and new wealth. Each of the leading candidates claims to have the right plan to finally make the decades-old dream...
  • Alaska gov. may bypass lawmakers to OK gas pipeline

    10/12/2006 7:30:40 PM PDT · by thackney · 17 replies · 510+ views
    Reuters ^ | Oct 12, 2006 | Yereth Rosen
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Outgoing Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski said on Thursday he may sign a deal for a $20 billion North Slope natural gas pipeline even if state lawmakers fail to approve the measure, which has been criticized as too generous to oil companies. Murkowski leaves office on December 4 after losing a reelection bid in August. "We're looking at that as an alternative, but it's far too early to make a definitive determination," he said at a news conference. "We're going to continue to work on it. We might have a surprise before we leave," he said. Even...
  • Russia, Bulgaria, Greece: The Pipe Dream Pipeline

    10/07/2006 1:01:25 AM PDT · by Tailgunner Joe · 1 replies · 398+ views
    stratfor.com ^ | October 06, 2006
    Prime ministers from Russia, Bulgaria and Greece agreed Oct. 5 to construct an oil pipeline that will ship predominantly Russian oil transported by tanker across the Black Sea from a receiving port at Burgas, Bulgaria, to Alexandroupolis, Greece. A great deal of Russian and Caspian crude oil ends up getting loaded onto tankers on the Black Sea, but the sea does not offer easy access to the wider oceans. To reach the Mediterranean, tankers first have to pass through the Turkish Straits, which are too small to accommodate anything but the smallest oil tankers and are certainly too tight a...
  • Showcase Pipeline Fuels Global Gas Flames

    09/24/2006 4:00:24 PM PDT · by blam · 3 replies · 421+ views
    BBC ^ | 9-24-2006 | Jorn Madslien
    Showcase pipeline fuels global gas flames By Jorn Madslien Business reporter, BBC News, Acergy Piper, North Sea The technology used to lay gas pipes deep under water is valuable At first sight, there is nothing hi-tech about the vast, rusty vessel that appears to float in the air above the choppy, three-metre waves. Seen from a helicopter, Acergy Piper is clearly too small to be an oil platform, but it does not look like a ship either. If anything it resembles a set from the movies Waterworld and Mad Max. Yet Acergy Piper is central to the heated debate about...
  • CNN Pipeline offers free real-time stream of 9/11/01

    09/11/2006 1:27:17 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 18 replies · 810+ views
    CNN.com (excerpt) ^ | September 11, 2006
    Excerpt - (CNN) -- As part of its coverage of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, CNN Pipeline will stream CNN's television coverage of September 11, 2001, in real time, as the events of the day unfolded. The free replay on Monday will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET, minutes before the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York. ~ snip ~
  • CNN.com to Replay 9/11 Attacks Coverage

    08/25/2006 12:04:25 PM PDT · by blu · 113 replies · 2,996+ views
    CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network's coverage of that day's events. Viewers can watch how events unfolded starting at 8:30 a.m., minutes before the first reports of an airplane hitting the World Trade Center. The feed will run in real time, as the network showed it five years ago, until midnight.
  • Blast Causes Fire on Pipeline in Turkey ~ A suspected Kurdish rebel attack

    08/19/2006 8:28:14 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 6 replies · 264+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | August 19, 2006 at 15:20:4 PDT | SUZAN FRASER ASSOCIATED PRESS
    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A suspected Kurdish rebel attack caused an explosion and huge fire on a natural gas pipeline in eastern Turkey, the Energy Ministry said. The region's governor, Halil Ibrahim Akpinar, said separatist Kurds were suspected of carrying out an attack on the pipeline. He did not say if a bomb was believed to have caused the explosion. The blast shook houses in nearby villages, the private Dogan news agency reported. Gas flows to the nearby province of Erzincan were cut, Energy Ministry spokesman Bulent Ismen said. Paramilitary police sealed off the area and firefighting teams were dispatched...
  • Northeast Ohio company works on pipeline fix {BP, North Slope}

    08/14/2006 5:52:40 AM PDT · by thackney · 2 replies · 235+ views
    The Beacon Journal ^ | Aug. 13, 2006 | Associated Press
    Problems with BP's leaking pipeline at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, have a northeast Ohio company working overtime to provide repair parts. The Pipe Line Development Co., known as PLIDCO, is shipping repair fittings by air to Alaska so BP can temporarily fix a portion of its 22-mile system and keep it operating while it takes down another portion, said Kim Smith, PLIDCO's director of marketing. "We have been working two shifts about 20 to 22 hours a day," Smith said. "We are looking to hire skilled welders and machinists immediately." BP, which operates the Alaskan oil field, the nation's largest, pledged...
  • Regulators were told in 1992 to beef up pipeline scrutiny

    08/13/2006 8:41:40 AM PDT · by thackney · 9 replies · 221+ views
    Anchorage Daily News ^ | August 13, 2006 | JOSEF HEBERT
    Fourteen years ago Congress urged the Transportation Department to start regulating low-pressure pipelines such as those blamed for shutting down Alaska's North Slope oil production. But it didn't happen. And only now, after questions about pipe maintenance and two damaging oil spills in Alaska, are officials pushing hard to establish federal rules and standards for such lines. Congress, as part of a pipeline safety law passed in 1992, included among a number of directives that the Transportation Department pay closer attention to low-stress oil and other hazardous liquid pipelines, which still today are exempt from federal regulations. Over the years,...
  • Correction: Aug. 11 Prudhoe Bay story

    08/12/2006 6:30:18 PM PDT · by thackney · 4 replies · 332+ views
    DuluthNewsTribune.com ^ | Sat, Aug. 12, 2006 | JEANNETTE J. LEE
    In a story that ran Aug. 11 about the partial shutdown of an oil field in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, The Associated Press, relying on information from BP PLC, erroneously reported that the eastern pipeline had not undergone a high-tech "smart pig" inspection since 1992. On Saturday, Aug. 12, the company told the AP that some of its employees were misinformed, and that the eastern pipeline, which began operating in 1977, never had the smart pig inspection. Below is a corrected version of the story: --- PRUDHOE BAY, Alaska (AP) - Federal regulators ordered BP PLC to conduct more rigorous tests...
  • BP to keep oil flowing from one side of Prudhoe Bay

    08/11/2006 9:44:49 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 9 replies · 391+ views
    Associated Press ^ | August 11, 2006
    Excerpt - BP said Friday it would keep one side of the nation's largest oil field open as it replaces 16 miles of pipes. The decision will allow BP to keep funneling up to 200,000 barrels of oil and natural gas from Prudhoe Bay. BP, which operates the oil field, had previously said it would have to completely shut down the oil field after discovering leaks and severe corrosion on the eastern side of the pipeline nearly a week ago. ~ snip ~
  • ABC, NBC Drill BP on PipeLine Corrosion

    08/09/2006 12:27:31 PM PDT · by freemarket_kenshepherd · 32 replies · 790+ views
    Business & Media Institute ^ | August 8, 2006 | Ken Shepherd
    Greedy BP (NYSE: BP) skimped on maintenance to make even more money, charged liberal critics of the oil industry on the August 8 “World News with Charles Gibson” and “Nightly News.” Yet NBC’s Lisa Myers and ABC’s Betsy Stark focused on the complaints of those liberal critics without airing out BP’s defense, even though the company explained its pipeline maintenance program the day before in a news conference. “In the last five years,” complained Stark, BP earned $63 billion in profits, sending back $51 billion to shareholders “through buybacks and dividend payouts, but just $1.5 billion” to maintain the Prudhoe...
  • Slovakia says to buy pipeline stake from YUKOS

    08/09/2006 10:43:15 AM PDT · by lizol · 1 replies · 266+ views
    Reuters ^ | 2006-08-09 | Peter Laca
    Slovakia says to buy pipeline stake from YUKOS 2006-08-09 19:19 By Peter Laca BRATISLAVA, Aug 9 (Reuters) - The Slovak government reached a deal with bankrupt Russian oil firm YUKOS on Wednesday to buy back a 49 percent stake in Slovak oil pipeline operator Transpetrol. Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek said after negotiations with officials of YUKOS Finance, which formally owns the Transpetrol shares, that the deal was still subject to approval by a U.S. judge overseeing part of YUKOS bankruptcy proceedings. "We need a ruling by a U.S. bankruptcy judge for finalising the matter, and for signing the necessary documentation,"...
  • BP searches for workers to replace pipes

    08/09/2006 1:35:04 AM PDT · by Species8472 · 16 replies · 1,113+ views
    Anchorage Daily News ^ | August 8, 2006 | MARY PEMBERTON
    Oil giant BP searched for skilled workers and steel pipe Tuesday to replace badly corroded transit lines that this week forced the shutdown of operations at the largest oil field in the U.S. The world's second-largest oil company announced Sunday it was shutting down the Prudhoe Bay oil field after a small leak was found in one of its three transit lines, which bring oil to the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline. BP has 22 miles of transit lines and will be replacing two of the lines, or 16 miles of pipe. "We have taken all nonessential persons off the slope," Steve...
  • BP: Learning from oil spill lessons (Long)

    08/08/2006 7:28:36 PM PDT · by PA Engineer · 8 replies · 692+ views
    Petroleum News ^ | May 14, 2006 | Alan Bailey
    Print this story | Email it to an associate. Vol. 11, No. 20 Week of May 14, 2006 Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry BP: Learning from oil spill lessonsJohnson, Beaudo explain what they think happened in Prudhoe Bay’s largest spill and what the company is learning from the incidentAlan BaileyPetroleum NewsOn March 2 a BP well pad operator discovered a leak in the transit line that delivers oil to the trans-Alaska pipeline from Gathering Center 2 in the western operating area of the giant Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. The...
  • Lithuanians suspect Russia of dirty tricks

    08/08/2006 10:45:45 AM PDT · by lizol · 70 replies · 804+ views
    International Herald Tribune ^ | August 7, 2006 | Judy Dempsey
    Lithuanians suspect Russia of dirty tricks By Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune Published: August 7, 2006 BERLIN: Lithuanian officials asserted Monday that Russia was trying to undermine Poland's purchase of a strategic oil refinery in Lithuania by purposely delaying repairs to a crucial oil pipeline that supplies the refinery. With Russia's energy giants trying to increase their market share both in Eastern and Western Europe, analysts said Monday that the damaged pipeline could weaken competition Russia would face from Orlen, a leading Polish oil refining company. The pipeline was damaged in an accident last month. "The timing of this accident...
  • BP: Pipeline Closing May Last for Months (To Replace 73%)

    08/07/2006 12:49:50 PM PDT · by beyond the sea · 104 replies · 1,867+ views
    .breitbart.com ^ | 8/07/06 | MARY PEMBERTON
    BP PLC said Monday it will replace 73 percent of the pipelines from the nation's largest oil field and that production could be closed for weeks or months, crimping the nation's oil supplies at a time of peak demand. BP, the world's second-largest oil company, began shutting down the pipelines on Monday and said it would replace 16 miles of the 22 miles of transit pipeline it operates in the Prudhoe Bay field following a leak discovered Sunday. Company officials told a news conference they did not immediately know how much it would cost to replace the lines. They will...