Managing compliance is essential in the oil and gas industry. However it is becoming increasingly difficult as the volume of asset information and engineering documents floating through gas & oil companies is staggering. Violations can happen no matter how much effort is made to prevent them — and the consequences of a violation can be [...]

The first agreement in 27 years for a large-scale empty UK gas field to be used as a gas storage facility was given the go-ahead off the Norfolk coast yesterday. Energy firm ENI was given a Gas Storage Licence by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) for its proposal to create a major [...]

The Polish government has approved a gas agreement with Russia, which increases gas deliveries to Poland, the government press office said on Tuesday. The government approved the agreement due to the Polish need for larger gas deliveries, which will build up national energy security, the press office said. It is planned to sign the intergovernmental [...]

Gas giant Gazprom and Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) have sealed a deal to launch the feasibility study of the Bulgarian section of the South Stream natural gas pipeline, Bloomberg said, citing a statement published on the Russian company’s website. Gazprom has pledged to carry out the procedure “quickly”, the news agency added. The accord follows [...]

Central Asian gas deliveries to Europe are at stake as Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev visits Turkmenistan at the invitation of the Turkmen president. Dmitry Medvedev and his counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov are to discuss the proposed pipeline that will connect Caspian gas to the South Stream project. This would help bring the rich gas resources of [...]

The Sate Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) carried out a repair work on the 3,736-meter stretch of the 1220-mm Astara-Kazimagomed pipeline in January-September, the company reported.  SOCAR transports gas to Iran through this pipeline under the swap operations to meet the needs of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. The company also carried out a [...]

Russia’s gas giant Gazprom slammed European Union initiatives to reform its gas industry saying on Thursday that they pose a risk of underinvestment in Europe’s infrastructure and cause Gazprom problems in operational activities and threaten its property rights. The EU is trying to reform its energy market to guarantee security of supply, competitiveness and environmental [...]

BIS E.M.S GmbH is a company that specialises in providing services for the entire lifecycle of industrial facilities. The services range from consulting, development, planning, assembly and installation to plant maintenance and operation.  Based in Buseck, Germany, they design, manufacture and deliver  metering pumps, loop mixers, odorisers and complex dosing systems. Source: www.ems-clp.de

The presidents of Ukraine and France stress the importance of modernizing the Ukrainian gas transport system, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych told journalists in Paris after meeting with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday, according to the press service of the Ukrainian president. “Of course, we spoke about this issue. We discussed the need to [...]

PROFESSOR David Hill, incoming Energy Australian Chair in the University of Sydney’s School of Electrical and Information Engineering, says smart grids need smarter computing. Smart grids are currently poised to become big business both in Australia and internationally. Smart grids coordinate electricity demand and supply in order to allow more flexibility and efficiency in the [...]