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Table of Contents - Volume 2, issue #04, published April 2006
EDITORIAL
Editorial, Volume II, issue 4 - April 2006
by J. Tiratsoo, Global Pipeline Monthly
KEY PIPELINE PROJECTS
Planning for the Urucu-Manaus gas pipeline
by C.H.L.G. Villela, Petrobras
by L. de Carvalho Dias Correia
BACKGROUND
The Southern "Gate": the geostrategic ramifications of Ukraine's natural gas by-passes on SE Europe
by T.G. Tsakiris, Panteion University of Athens
South American pipeline wars: Chavez bloc races with oil cartel to grid the Continent
by B. Weinberg
TECHNICAL ISSUES
A view from outer space
by J. Tiratsoo, Global Pipeline Monthly
NEWS: EUROPE
France: GdF may join NEGP project
France: GdF to invest $1.8bn in pipelines
Germany: Merkel defends gas pipeline plan
Germany: Schroeder elected chairman of NEGP
Greece: US backs Balkan oil project
Norway: pipe coating contract for Tyrihans
Norway: UK gas supply increased
Russia: Sakhalin II on course for Shell
Russia: increases Caspian pipeline capacity with Kazakhstan
Russia: Gazprom says NEGP will cost $10.5bn to construct
Russia: Rosneft plans to build own oil refinery on eastern pipeline
Russia: Baltic pipeline system reaches design capacity
UK: work begins on £90-m all-Ireland gas link-up
UK: BBL pipeline in the news...for the wrong reasons
UK: New specification on AC corrosion
UK: Pipelines 2006 gearing up
NEWS: AFRICA
Algeria: engineering and design contract awarded for El Merk
Ghana: W African gas pipeline project "now 84% complete"
NEWS: CENTRAL ASIA
Armenia: Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to be operational by December
Armenia: Russia confirms takeover of Iran-Armenia pipeline
Azerbaijan: BTC oil line "to be ready late May"
Azerbaijan: pipeline installation work for ACG, Shah Deniz
China: Putin commits to gas but not to oil pipeline
China: Telvent to supply SCADA for oil pipeline
China: gas pipeline agreement signed with Turkemenistan
China: two pipelines for coal-bed methane
India: Iran, Pakistan, India to pursue pipeline
India: awaiting Bangladesh OK on Myanmar pipeline
Mongolia: gas pipeline from Irkutsk a possibility
Vietnam: to have second gas pipeline in early 2007
NEWS: MIDDLE EAST & N AFRICA
Egypt: details agreed of gas line extension to Turkey
Israel: developing oil from shale
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Aramco and McDermott sign pipeline contracts
Syria: New line across Iraq
NEWS: SOUTH- AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Australia: HTC helps prepare for hydrogen economy
Australia: companies borrow for expansion as economy grows
NEWS: NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina: TGS and TGN gas line expansion bids
Brazil: cost of building S America gas line will exceed $25bn estimate
Brazil: $300-million offshore lines order
Brazil: pipeline construction delays Peroa, Cangoa startup
Canada: Enbridge increases size of S Access oil line
Canada: Spearhead line delivers Canadian crude to OK
Canada: new TSB statistics
Canada: tolls approved for Canada oil pipe expansion
Peru: Camisea NGL pipe leaks for the fifth time
Peru: IDB holds third public consultation on Camisea project
Trinidad: Cannonball project near completion
US: FERC approves higher oil pipeline rates
US: Calypso pipeline owners change course
US: New crude oil line to Cheyenne, Wyoming
US: Mackenzie Valley pipeline spurs Arctic coal-gasification plan
US: Prudhoe pipeline leak "caused by internal corrosion"
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