Pipelines

Iran-backed rebels drone attacks damage Saudi pumping stations

May 14, 2019 | Civil Wars & Terrorism, Middle East, Pipelines, Rigs & Vessels

London, UK | –  Saudi Arabia halted its main cross-country oil pipeline after a drone attack damaged pumping stations along the link, a strike claimed by Iran-backed rebels in neighbouring Yemeni. Oil prices rose. Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil exporter, said that supplies of crude and products continued “normally without interruption,” the official Saudi Press Agency reported, citing the energy ministry. The state producer halted the pipeline transporting oil from eastern fields to the port of Yanbu on the western coast as a precautionary, …

Kenya plans to ship its first crude oil in June

May 10, 2019 | Kenya, Pipelines, Terminals & Storage

Kenya plans to ship its first crude oil in June Tullow Oil has so far transported 87,000 barrels from Turkana Only 600 barrels can be transported per day; new licenses given to allow up to 2,000.  London, UK | – Kenya plans to ship its first 200,000 barrels of crude oil in June, one year since President Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off the first trucks.  On June 3 last year, President Kenyatta flagged off four trucks with 156 barrels of Crude Oil from Lokichar in Turkana …

Over 50 people missing after Nigerian oil pipeline explosion

March 05, 2019 | Health, Safety & Environment, Nigeria, Pipelines

Warri, Nigeria | — More than 50 people were reported missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria, a local official said on Saturday. Nengi James-Eriworio, a spokesman for the Nembe Chiefs Council, told reporters that the blast on Friday caused a massive oil spill in the Nembe Kingdom in Bayelsa State. There was no immediate word on injuries or other casualties beyond those missing. The Nembe trunk line is operated by the Port Harcourt-based Aiteo Group and carries …

Tanzania sees $3.5bn Uganda gas pipeline kicking off in 2021

September 27, 2018 | Construction & Installation, Pipelines, Tanzania, Uganda

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania | –  The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation is confident a natural-gas pipeline to Uganda will start in 2021, according to acting Managing Director of the corporation,  Kapuulya Musomba. At least 29 companies have shown interest in conducting a feasibility study and constructing the pipeline that will pump gas to western Uganda to power iron and steel factories, Musomba said in an interview in Tanzania’s commercial hub, Dar es Salaam. He didn’t provide any names. “We expect the feasibility study to be …

UAE to build oil pipeline between Eritrea and Ethiopia

August 10, 2018 | East Africa, Government & Regulations, Pipelines

Nairobi, Kenya | – The United Arab Emirates will build an oil pipeline connecting Eritrea’s port city of Assab with Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, an Ethiopian state-affiliated broadcaster said on Friday. Fana Broadcasting said the information was revealed during a meeting in Addis Ababa between Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Reem Al Hashimy, the UAE’s state minister for international cooperation. It did not provide further details, but Abiy’s chief of staff, Fitsum Arega, told Reuters that the discussion with Hashimy was largely on investment …

China interested in joining TAPI pipeline project – Pakistan official

August 08, 2018 | Construction & Installation, Middle East, Pipelines

Islamabad, Pakistan | – China is exploring building a spur from Pakistan’s territory once the multi-country TAPI natural gas pipeline project begins operating, a Pakistani official said, with the financial close of the project’s first phase expected next month. Originating at the giant Galkynysh gas field in Turkmenistan, the $9.6 billion TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India) pipeline involves the four countries own energy companies, and would carry 33 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas a year. Turkmenistan is building the TAPI pipeline to diversify …

Kenya picks Britain’s Wood Group for oil pipeline design

April 27, 2018 | Kenya, Pipelines

Naiobi, Kenya | –  Kenya has picked Wood Group Plc to design an estimated $2 billion (1.43 billion pounds) oil pipeline to pump crude from fields in the north of the East African nation to an Indian Ocean port, a senior government official said on Thursday. Kenya discovered commercial oil reserves in its Lokichar basin in 2012 and the 800-km (500-mile) pipeline is expected to be built before production is due to start in 2021/22. Andrew Kamau, the principal secretary at the Petroleum and Mining …

Nigeria’s NNPC signs contracts for 614km gas pipeline project

April 07, 2018 | Contracts, Nigeria, Pipelines

Abuja, Nigeria | – The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has signed contracts for engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and financing for 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline and Stations. The NNPC spokesman, Mr Ndu Ughamadu, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja.He said the AKK Gas Pipeline and Stations Project comprised Lots 1 and 3, and measured 40inch x 614km. According to him, the agreement, which is 100 per cent contractor-financing model, has been signed with a consortium of indigenous and Chinese companies. …