European energy utility WINGAS, a joint venture between Wintershall and Gazprom, has contracted Siemens Energy for a compression system for its OPAL natural gas Baltic Sea pipeline link.

CAPE Group has developed a semi-automatic, remotely controlled orbital welding system to repair oil and gas pipelines on the seabed.

Saudi Arabia’s Environmental Protection Department (EPD) and the Offshore Projects Division of the Saudi Aramco’s Northern Area Projects Department (OPD/NAPD) have sponsored a coral relocation project in the Arabian Gulf.

Qatargas Operating Co. has awarded GE Oil & Gas’ PII Pipeline Solutions business a six-year contract for advanced pipeline integrity management services.

Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey have signed an intergovernmental agreement for the Nabucco project.

Iran will shortly issue a tender for construction of a new oil export pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf.

Sonatrach has contracted Saipem and Egyptian company Petrojet to install a long-distance gas pipeline across Algeria.