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Hostler gives upbeat assessment of current status of trans-Alaska oil pipeline, Alyeska’s ability to deal with evolving challenges ---- It’s been 30 years since the first oil entered the trans-Alaska oil pipeline system on June 20, 1977. And, with 15 billion barrels of North Slope crude already under its belt, the pipeline is entering a new era. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. President and CEO Kevin Hostler talked to Petroleum News about how the pipeline is faring and how his company plans to address the challenges that the pipeline will face in the future. Alyeska operates the trans-Alaska oil pipeline on...

/begin my translation N. Korea: Oil Pipeline Explosion in Sunchon, 110 People Dead (source: Good Friends) Intelligence agency also got the information and is in the process of verifying it. (Seoul=Yonhap News) Han Seung-ho = Good Friends (director: Bub-ryun (Buddhist Monk)), an organization for N. Korean human right, reported on June 19th, "On June 9th, there was a pipeline fire and explosion at Sunchon, N. Pyongan Province, resulting in about 110 fatalities." (S. Korean) intelligence authorities also picked up the same intelligence and are now reportedly trying to verify it. The following is what the organization reported: The pipeline...

The historic roadway was discovered in the Brecon Beacons, on the path of the 190-mile (320km) National Grid pipe from Milford Haven to Gloucestershire. Neil Fairburn, archaeology project manager for National Grid, said the road was found as digging began, but the pipe would still have to cross it... Mr Fairburn said the road, which he estimated as dating from the 1st Century AD, was in "a better condition than we would normally find a Roman road", but a 3m section of it would be lost. "It was in an area where we thought there might be a Roman road,...

June 3, 2007 -- The terror-targeted Buckeye pipeline snakes through miles and miles of city streets, coursing with millions of gallons of potentially lethal fuel each day - and is so exposed that a reporter could simply walk up and touch the pipe

Poland is prepared for Russian Druzhba oil pipeline shutdown - PM Kaczynski WARSAW. JUNE 1. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Poland is prepared in the event that the Russian Druzhba oil pipeline is shut down, as it can import oil via other routes, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, together with Lithuanian counterpart Gediminas Kirkilas, told a press conference Friday, following a visit to top Polish fuel firm PKN Orlen. "Regarding the Druzhba pipeline, there is the possibility that it will be shut down slowly or less slowly," Kaczynski said. "We are considering this, and this was the topic of our talks...

BAGHDAD, May 22 (UPI) -- Iraq agreed to increase oil exports directly to Iran via a new pipeline in the south, though export capacity in the north remains stuck. Iraq Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani and Hasan Kazemi Qomi, the Iranian ambassador to Iraq, struck the deal, according to a top ministry spokesman. "The two agreed to lay the oil pipeline from southern Iraq to Abadan region in Iran in order to export more than 200,000 barrels per day of Iraqi crude oil to Iran according to crude oil international prices," Issam Jihad told reporters.

Russia clinches gas pipeline deal Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have agreed to build a new natural gas pipeline north from the Caspian Sea. Russia's President Vladimir Putin announced the deal at a summit with Central Asian leaders in Turkmenistan. The agreement ensures Russia's access to Turkmenistan's gas, and is a setback to rival US and European Union plans. They had hoped to pipe Turkmen gas across the Caspian sea via Turkey, in order to reduce the EU's dependence on Russian-controlled energy. Following two days of negotiations the presidents of the three countries, meeting in the Turkmen port city of Turkmenbashi,...

Poland, ex-Soviet states secure energy Posted : Sat, 12 May 2007 00:04:00GMT KRAKOW, Poland, May 11 Poland and six former Soviet countries signed a deal to extend the Odessa-Brody pipeline and send energy supplies to Europe bypassing Russia. The presidents of Poland, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania and Ukraine, and the Kazakh deputy energy minister, meeting in Krakow, Poland, Friday, signed a resolution declaring joint energy security planning as a major policy decision, RIA Novosti reports. The Odessa-Brody pipeline, which sends mostly Russian oil to the Black Sea port, will extend to the port of Gdansk in Poland and the Plock refinery....

By Alexander Vershinin, Associated Press Writer | May 12, 2007 TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan --Russia announced a deal Saturday to dramatically increase the amount of natural gas it moves from Central Asia to Europe, a key victory in a growing rivalry with the West for the region's vast energy resources. Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of the region's main energy producers, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, agreed to build a pipeline running from Turkmenistan through Kazakhstan and into Russia's network of pipelines to Europe. The three presidents also said that, with Uzbekistan, they would revamp the entire Soviet-built pipeline network that carries...

An explosion destroyed a 30-metre section of the trunk gas pipeline taking Russian gas across Ukraine to Europe on Monday, but Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said flows of gas were unaffected. “There has been no reduction in gas supplies to European customers,” Gazprom said in a statement. Gazprom customers in eastern Europe reported no disruption to supplies. A spokesman for Ukraine's Emergencies Ministry initially said the blast had stopped the flow of gas to Europe, which gets a quarter of its gas from Russia. Another spokesman later said a by-pass pipeline had come on stream and flows to Europe...

KIEV (AFP) - An explosion Monday in Ukraine knocked out of service one of the main pipelines exporting Russian natural gas to the European Union, the Ukrainian emergency situations ministry told AFP. A "large explosion" cut the pipeline, which carries Siberian gas through Ukraine to Germany and other EU clients, ministry spokeswoman Viktoria Ruban said. The blast occurred at about 1125 GMT on a section near the Ukrainian capital Kiev, she said. A 30-metre (32-feet) length of pipeline was torn off, with debris hurled 150 metres away. There was no immediate information regarding the effect of the incident on deliveries...

Four Iraqis were arrested early Monday after soldiers found a load of explosives planted under an oil pipeline in northern Iraq that carries crude oil to Turkey, the Iraqi Army said. About 330 pounds of TNT were discovered under a stretch of the pipeline in the al-Kisk area, about 50 miles west of Mosul, said Col. Mohammed Ahmed, a spokesman for the 3rd Iraqi Army division. The explosives were removed and safely destroyed without injuries, he said. Four suspects - all Iraqis - were arrested nearby, Ahmed said. Mosul lies 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.

Malaysia will build a 7 billion US dollar pipeline to transport Middle East oil across the north of its peninsula to East Asian countries. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told reporters today that he had agreed to the project. Mr Abdullah, who is also the finance minister, says the project is one of the government's major initiatives to develop Malaysia's northern region. The News Straits Times says Trans-Peninsula Petroleum, the company that will construct the 312-kilometre pipeline, will invest as much as seven billion US dollars in the ambitious project over eight years. The pipeline will run from northwestern Kedah...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Major energy companies are declining to participate in building a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope, saying legislation meant to lure them makes too many demands and offers too few assurances. Exxon Mobil Corp., BP PLC and ConocoPhillips have told the state Senate and House finance committees the Alaska Gasoline Inducement Act will not generate competitive bids to build a pipeline. "Unless (the act) is adjusted, ConocoPhillips would be unable to make an ... application," said Brian Wenzel, vice president of ConocoPhillips' North Slope gas development. Under the act, producers and independent pipeline companies can vie...

PAWNEE, Ill. — Authorities said there was a massive natural gas pipeline explosion Sunday morning in a rural area near Springfield.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A planned Russian-German natural gas pipeline along the Baltic seabed will cut through a disputed coastal zone that comes under Polish and Danish regulations, Poland's economy minister said Wednesday. Minister Piotr Wozniak said plans for the 750-mile pipeline show it will slice through a stretch of some 62 miles of water that Poland and Denmark are in conflict over, with each country claiming it as an exclusive economic zone. Still, Poland insisted that its regulations should apply in the area, and that the pipeline's construction must comply with them. Several coastal nations have expressed concern over...

MOSCOW, April 18 (Reuters) - The world's longest tunnel between Russia and Alaska is a very distant project if not a dream, Russian officials and firms said on Wednesday after supporters said the $65 billion plan was gathering speed. The idea to build a tunnel or a bridge across the Bering Straits emerged more than 100 years ago under the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, but vanished into oblivion during Soviet times amid confrontation with the United States. Reuters Pictures Photo Editors Choice: Best pictures from the last 24 hours. View Slideshow It was revived after the collapse of the...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Unusually high Pacific waves battered beaches from El Salvador to Mexico and carried people out to sea, prompting authorities in some places to order swimmers out of the water Tuesday. At least two people were killed. Waves topping 10 feet swept away a dozen swimmers near La Libertad on Monday, 10 of whom were plucked from the water by boats and a helicopter, Green Cross emergency worker Jose Larin said. A 35-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were killed. El Salvador's government advised people "to avoid swimming at our beaches due to the risk,"...

The governor's gas line team pushed Wednesday for a proposed 10-year tax freeze on North Slope gas producers that commit their gas to a pipeline project the state would back. An assistant attorney general told lawmakers that the freeze would not violate the state's constitution and would provide a crucial inducement for launching the pipeline project. The proposed freeze is one of several incentives spelled out in Gov. Sarah Palin's Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, or AGIA. The bill, working its way through both chambers of the Legislature, would provide the vehicle under which competing applicants can bid for a state...