The head of Ukraine’s state-owned oil and gas company says allowing Nord Stream 2’s completion would hurt American credibility in Eastern Europe. (Bloomberg) — The head of the Ukraine’s state-owned Continue Reading
Construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline was officially terminated on Wednesday, handing a big victory to environmentalists that fought the project for more than a decade as they intensified Continue Reading
The failure of the Keystone XL project demonstrated the challenges of building new pipelines in the U.S. and Canada amid galvanized environmental groups and delivered a blow to oil-and-gas companies that now Continue Reading
Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas project will start preparations on Friday to fill the first of two pipelines with natural gas within a few months, the Gazprom-led project said on Continue Reading
Highlights Offshore section of first string technically complete Work to lay the 27.5 Bcm/year line completed June 4 Pipelaying work on second string continues Commissioning work to fill the first Continue Reading
A $9 billion oil pipeline that became a symbol of the rising political clout of climate change advocates and a flash point in U.S.-Canada relations was officially canceled on Wednesday. Continue Reading
Canada’s TC Energy Corp. TRP 0.59% and the Albertan provincial government said Wednesday they would scuttle the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, bringing to an end a yearslong controversy over an effort to pipe more Continue Reading
Environmental protesters clashed with police on Monday after occupying a pump station as they rallied against Enbridge Inc’s (ENB.TO) Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota, while Enbridge said it had evacuated Continue Reading
Environmental and tribal groups opposed to Enbridge Energy’s ongoing effort to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline are planning large protests in northern Minnesota as the Canadian-based company Continue Reading
Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is ready to start pumping gas to Germany and the final stretch will be completed as the new U.S. administration seeks good relations with Continue Reading
The Polish government is analyzing Denmark’s decision to withdraw the environmental permit for the Danish section of the 10 Bcm/year Baltic Pipe project, officials said June 4. Receive daily email Continue Reading
Testing work on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany will start next week, Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the Leningrad region where the pipeline starts, was cited as saying Continue Reading
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea is almost complete with just 100 kilometres (62 miles) left to build, TASS news agency quoted Russian deputy prime minister Continue Reading
Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel pipeline, on Friday said it was experiencing network issues, just weeks after a ransomware attack crippled fuel delivery for several days in the United Continue Reading
U.S. energy companies are scrambling to buy more cyber insurance after this month’s attack on Colonial Pipeline disrupted the U.S. fuel supply, but they can expect to pay more as Continue Reading
The Transportation Security Administration intends to release the first of at least two security directives that would require pipeline operators to notify it when they are targets or victims of Continue Reading
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expects further discussions with the United States on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project after the administration of President Joe Biden waived sanctions on the Continue Reading
No Democrats so far join effort to reverse waiver Senator Cramer urges Biden to sell US gas potential Biden/Putin summit set for June 16: White House US Senate Republicans opposed Continue Reading
Pipes for the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline are stored on a site at the port of Mukran in Sassnitz, Germany, September 10, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke U.S. President Joe Continue Reading
A natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany edged closer to completion after the Biden administration loosened sanctions of the controversial project. (Bloomberg) — A natural gas pipeline linking Russia Continue Reading
In a somewhat surprising turn of events, Washington said it would waive sanctions about to be imposed on Germany-registered Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the Nord Stream-2 pipeline Continue Reading
Colonial Pipeline paid hackers a $4.4 million ransom to regain control of its computer systems and restart fuel delivery to the East Coast, the company’s chief executive said Wednesday. In Continue Reading
Sen. James Risch, an Idaho Republican, said the decision would weaken U.S. leverage over Russia ahead of a planned summit between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin , and Continue Reading
Biden administration report to Congress due Berlin to continue discussions with Washington ‘This is a constructive step’: Maas German foreign minister Heiko Maas on May 19 said the US would Continue Reading
The Biden administration waived sanctions on the company behind Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany and its chief executive, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, a Continue Reading
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — The Biden administration imposed sanctions Wednesday on Russian companies and ships for their work on a European natural gas pipeline adamantly opposed by the U.S., but Continue Reading
The State Department cited the parent company and chief executive of a Russian natural-gas pipeline for sanctions but waived the penalties, clearing a hurdle for the completion of a project Continue Reading
Highlights Pipeline about 95% complete and could be finished in summer Would be key source of gas to Germany, Eastern Europe US remains opposed to pipeline despite appeasing Germany Houston Continue Reading
Oil and water don’t mix — especially when the latter involves the Great Lakes, the repository of more than 20 percent of the world’s freshwater. And yet for nearly 70 Continue Reading
Annalena Baerbock was born the same year as Germany’s Green Party, then a fringe mix of peace activists, environmentalists, equal rights campaigners and members of the anti-nuclear movement, skeptical of Continue Reading
The top U.S. fuel pipeline, which has been disabled by a cyberattack for six days, sent workers to manually release some stored supplies on Wednesday as fuel shortages across the Continue Reading
Despite Michigan’s deadline to shut down Line 5, Enbridge continues to operate the oil pipeline through the Great Lakes, reiterating that it is up to the U.S. federal government to Continue Reading
The federal Canadian government has warned Washington of Michigan’s plan to shut down a pipeline transporting Canadian crude to U.S. refineries risks worsening bilateral relations. In a legal filing, Ottawa Continue Reading
Colonial Pipeline, the operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline network, has begun the process of restarting its service to the East Coast after a six-day shutdown, a company spokeswoman Continue Reading
The owner of the Colonial Pipeline said Wednesday that it has begun restarting operations following a cyberattack that shut down the main fuel conduit serving the East Coast. Colonial Pipeline Co., operator Continue Reading
The audacious ransomware attack that shut down a major fuel pipeline and sent Americans scrambling for gasoline in the Southeast this week was not the first time hackers have disrupted America’s aging, Continue Reading
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer threatened Tuesday to go after Enbridge’s profits from a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the company defies her order to shut it down. The Democratic governor Continue Reading
North America’s biggest petroleum pipeline may take several more days to recover from a cyberattack that forced it to halt shipments of gasoline and other fuels, raising the specter for shortages if Continue Reading
Highlights Latest update suggests steady progress through April, May Nechayev ‘hopeful’ pipeline will be complete before German election Two pipelayers now operational in waters off Denmark Around 100 km of Continue Reading
The operator of the largest petroleum pipeline between Texas and New York, which was shut down after a ransomware attack, declined on Sunday to say when it would reopen, raising Continue Reading
The operator of the biggest gasoline pipeline in the U.S. shut down operations late Friday following a ransomware attack that threatens to roil energy markets and upend the supply of Continue Reading
The ransomware attack that forced the closure of the largest U.S. fuel pipeline this weekend showed how cyber criminals pose a far-reaching threat to the aging, vulnerable infrastructure that keeps the Continue Reading
U.S. gasoline prices may surge to their highest since 2014 even faster than previously expected as a cyberattack disrupts operations on the nation’s biggest oil fuel pipeline. The national average stood Continue Reading
The shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline because of a ransomware attack stretched into a third day Sunday, with the Biden administration saying an “all-hands-on-deck” effort is underway to restore Continue Reading
Canada is fighting to stop U.S. officials from closing a vital cross-border oil and gas pipeline as a deadline to shut it looms. The dispute erupted in November, when Michigan Gov. Continue Reading
For Michigan’s governor, the 645-mile pipeline jeopardizes the Great Lakes. For Canada’s natural resources minister, its continued operation is “nonnegotiable.” The clash over Calgary-based Enbridge’s Line 5, which carries up Continue Reading
A Supreme Court hearing began this week that could seal the future fate of gas pipelines across the United States. It could also change the balance of power between federal Continue Reading
New resolution in response to Navalny case, military build-up Calls for oil, gas import ban if Russian invades Ukraine Parliament resolutions non-binding on EU, member states The European Parliament has Continue Reading
Akademik Cherskiy now laying line alongside Fortuna Pipelaying using Fortuna vessel resumed Feb 6 Work in German waters could restart from June A second Russian vessel has now begun laying Continue Reading
Canada has repeatedly been raising with top U.S. officials, including President Joe Biden, the issue with Enbridge’s Line 5 which Michigan wants shut down, and considers intervening in the legal Continue Reading
