Middle East Oil & Gas Pipeline & Transportation News

BP and its partners have approved the start of front-end engineering and design (FEED) on the $25-billion Shah Deniz Stage 2 project in the Caspian Sea.

TDW Offshore Services has completed a pipeline pressure isolation operation off Qatar.

DNO International has had to shut in production from two fields in block 8 offshore Oman.

Biffi has supplied its largest-ever high torque pneumatic actuators to ADNOC for a project offshore Abu Dhabi.

Fugro GEOS has won a contract to provide Qatar Shell with round-the-clock support and maintenance support for a seabed water temperature monitoring system.

Kuwait Gulf Oil Co. (KGOC) has contracted Technip for engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning assistance for the Gas and Condensate Export System project.

A paper from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy recommends improvements to the pipelines crossing the Arabian Peninsula.

Hydratight has supplied subsea construction services for a project in the Persian Gulf.

An Indian delegation will travel to Iran for talks on construction of a new gas export line, according to Iranian news service Shana.

ITGI (Interconnector Turkey Greece Italy) has completed an eight-month detailed marine survey for the offshore section of IGI Poseidon.

The Council of the European Union has approved negotiations with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan over a legal framework for the proposed Trans-Caspian gas pipeline system.

Offshore pipelay is nearing completion at phases 15 and 16 of the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf.

Eni has signed a memorandum with the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC).

First gas has flowed through the Medgaz trunkline taking supplies north from Algeria to mainland Spain via the Mediterranean Sea.

Statoil is selling a 24.1% direct and indirect stake in the Gassled pipelines joint venture to SolveiG Gas Norway for NOK 17.35 billion ($3.2 billion).

The pipelay vessel Abouzar 1200 has started the shore-pull operation for a pipeline for the Froozan oil field in the Persian Gulf, according to Iranian Offshore Engineering Co.

T.D. Williamson (TDW) has completed a subsea hot tap intervention in the Egyptian sector of the Mediterranean Sea.

Pars Oil and Gas Co. has completed the offshore pipelay for the South Pars Phase XII development, according to Iranian news service Shana.

Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Co. is working on projects with a combined value of $9 billion.

Dolphin Energy has awarded EnerMech Qatar LLC a three year call-off contract to provide nitrogen purging and leak testing on pipeline and related facilities offshore and onshore Qatar.

Iran and Syria have agreed the route of a new trunkline that would carry supplies of Iranian gas to Europe.

Technip has inaugurated its newest flexible pipe manufacturing plant. In Tanjung Langsat, Malaysia, the facility is built to support the growing subsea oil and gas sectors in the Asia/Pacific and Middle East regions.

T.D. Williamson SA reports successful completion of a hot tap operation on a gas pipeline in the Nile Delta, Egypt.

Leighton Offshore has won a $733-million EPC contract from Iraq’s South Oil Company for construction services in and around the Persian Gulf. The project is designed to enhance export facilities from the Fao Terminal near Al Basrah.