Russia Oil & Gas Pipeline & Transportation News

OOO LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft has contracted Bumi Armada Caspian to install subsea oil and gas pipelines at the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea.

The Nord Stream gas pipeline project in the Baltic Sea is entering an intensive period of activity.

Gazprom plans to start gas production this year from the Kirinskoye gas/condensate field offshore Sakhalin Island, under the Sakhalin III project.

Gazprom has completed preparation of project documents for Phase 1 of its Southern Corridor gas transmission system (GTS).

Gazprom and Eni have agreed to adjust the terms and conditions for Russian natural gas supplies to Italy.

Construction is under way of a compressor station in Portovaya, northern Russia which will handle gas supplies for the second Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has granted all necessary and unconditional permits for construction and operation of the South Stream gas pipeline through the Turkish sector.

The Nord Stream consortium reports that Line 1 of its Baltic Sea pipeline became operational on Nov. 8, and was commemorated by political and business leaders as making a significant contribution to Europe’s long-term energy security.

The proposed ITGI pipeline system will be the quickest method of taking gas from Azerbaijan to European markets.

Gazprom has commissioned the first startup complex at the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system (GTS), taking gas supplies to the Primorsky Krai region.

Pre-commissioning has been completed on the first Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, including pressure testing, cleaning, drying, and filling with nitrogen to eliminate any oxygen.

The final weld connecting the offshore and onshore parts of the first Nord Stream gas line in northern Europe has been completed.

The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has given the Nord Stream group permission to operate the first of twin pipelines in the Baltic Sea that will transport gas from Russia to mainland Europe.

Allseas' Solitaire has completed installation of Line 2 of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in Russian waters.

All three sections of the first Nord Stream 1,224-km (760-mi) gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea have been joined together using underwater hyperbaric tie-ins.

Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) has awarded ENGlobal an engineering, procurement, and commissioning services agreement relating to expansion of the Caspian oil export pipeline.

Preparations have started for welding together two of the three sections of the first 1,224-km (760-mi) Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

GSP Offshore’s pipelay vessel Bigfoot-1 has connected the offshore and onshore sections of Gazprom’s new Dzhubga – Lazarevskoye – Sochi gas pipeline in the Russian sector of the Black Sea.

All three sections of the first Nord Stream 1,224-km (760-mi) gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea have been laid, and will be joined this summer off the coasts of Finland and Sweden.

Wintershall is to take a 15% stake in South Stream AG, the company that will construct and install the Black Sea section of the South Stream gas pipeline.

Gazprom and Bulgarian Energy Holding EAD have awarded a feasibility study for the Bulgarian stretch of the South Stream gas pipeline in southeast Europe.

Research results over the past decade, including drilling and coring, experimental studies, and numerical simulations, are clarifying the resource potential of gas hydrates. Key to recent advances is the recognition that gas hydrate is not something exotic, requiring fundamentally new technologies. Instead, gas hydrate is best thought of as the shallow extension of existing deepwater petroleum systems, fully amenable to exploration and potential production using the same tools and concepts as traditional hydrocarbon resources. The conduct of the impending field sampling and production tests will be the next major step in the evaluation of this potential resource.

Gazprom has performed horizontal drilling off eastern Russia, to accommodate part of the new Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok Gas Transmission System (GTS) trunkline.

Over half of the first 1,224-km (760-mi) Nord Stream gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea has been completed.