U.S. Shale Gas Needs More Pipelines to Move the Gas to Market, but Anti-Fossil Fuel Groups are Out to Stop Pipelines In the past ten years, the shale revolution has changed the U.S. energy landscape. The economic extraction of oil and gas from shale deposits has opened new oil and natural gas supplies in North America, presented new opportunities for
Getting Certified The American Petroleum Institute (API) has launched a program to certify pipeline inspectors. Oil & Gas 360® spoke with an API media spokesperson who answered questions about the program. OAG360®: What is the specific prerequisite education and/or experience/job title a person needs to achieve this certification? API: The qualification requirements for the API 1169 Pipeline Inspector Certification Program
Amendments address safety of natural gas pipelines and transparency related to oil spills The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today included three amendments when it passed pipeline reauthorization legislation (S. 2276). Two of the amendments by Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey address “lost and unaccounted for natural gas from aging, leaky pipelines,” according to a statement from Sen. Markey’s office. “A
Residents of the northeast United States are likely to dismiss any notion of the upcoming winter season (it was 90 degrees in Boston today), but the chilly months that accompany football season are indeed approaching. Winter for New Englanders also brings wide disparities in consumer power costs, plagued by a lack of infrastructure in the nearby Marcellus/Utica region. ICF International,
A consultant with Japan’s largest gas company said they are interested in building a $3.5 billion pipeline to obtain Russia’s natural gas at half the cost of its LNG Tokyo Gas, Japan’s largest gas company, would like to build a gas pipeline from Sakhalin, Russia, to central Japan, Shigeru Muraki, a consultant for the company, said at the third annual
