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2008–09 British Columbia pipeline bombings

The 2008–09 British Columbia pipeline bombings were a series of bombs that targeted gas pipelines owned by EnCana near the towns of Dawson Creek and Tomslake, British Columbia.

Cà Mau Gas-Power-Fertilizer Complex

Cà Mau Gas-Power-Fertilizer Complex (Vietnamese: Dự án Khí - Điện - Đạm Cà Mau) is a complex of gas pipeline, urea plant, thermal power plant in commune of Khánh An, U Minh District, Cà Mau Province, southern Vietnam.

Nigel Howard Croft

In 1981, he received a Harkness Fellowship from the Commonwealth Fund, to conduct post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, on the low temperature impact strength of welds in microalloyed steel after induction bending for use in high pressure gas pipelines.


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2007 Haradh, Saudi Arabia gas pipeline explosion

2007 Haradh, Saudi Arabia, gas pipeline explosion occurred just after midnight on 18 November 2007 at a natural gas pipeline near Haradh gas plant and at a distance of thirty kilometers (eighteen miles) off the Hawiya gas plant in eastern Saudi Arabia.

Alaska gas pipeline

In the United States, three competing applications were filed with the Federal Power Commission to construct a natural gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay.

Opposition to the Alaska natural gas pipeline route mandate and price supports came from both the Bush administration and the Canadian government.

Anson Chi

On June 22, 2012, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Chi after a series of suspicious explosions near midnight on the night of June 17–18, 2012, near a gas pipeline in a residential area of Plano, Texas.

Baltic pipeline

Baltic Pipe, a planned gas pipeline between Denmark and Poland

Nord Stream, a planned gas pipeline between Russia and Germany

Balticconnector, a planned gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland

Baltic Gas Interconnector, a planned gas pipeline between Germany, Denmark and Sweden

Caspian pipeline

Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline, a planned natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan

Dabhol Power Company

Starting in the mid-1990s, Unocal and its partners planned to build a 1,000 mile gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Multan, in Pakistan at a cost of about $2 billion.

Economy of Bolivia

In 1996, three units of the Bolivian state oil corporation (YPFB) involved in hydrocarbon exploration, production, and transportation were capitalized, facilitating the construction of a gas pipeline to Brazil.

Energy in Hungary

The Nabucco gas pipeline is expected to pipe 31bn cubic metres of gas annually in a 3,300 km long pipeline constructed via Hungary, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and Austria.

Energy policy of Kazakhstan

On 12 May 2007, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan signed an agreement providing for Central Asian gas to be exported to Europe through the reconstructed and expanded western branch of the Central Asia-Center gas pipeline system.

Europipe

Europipe I - a natural gas pipeline between the Draupner E riser platform in the North Sea and the Dornum terminal in Germany

Europipe II - a natural gas pipeline between the Kårstø processing plant in Norway and the Dornum terminal in Germany

Golden Valley, Herefordshire

During 2008 the Golden Valley saw the construction of the National Grid’s 196 km natural gas pipeline from Felindre to Tirley.

HVJ Gas Pipeline

HVJ an abbreviation for Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur (also known as HBJ where B stands for Bijeypur, another name of Vijaipur) is India's first cross country gas pipeline.

Igor Gräzin

"Gräzin initiative" is his proposal to restore the withdrawn Estonian Maritime border in its post-war configuration (as it stood till 1993) and thus gain to Estonia influence within the Nord Stream project (gas pipeline between Russia and Germany routed through the Gulf of Finland).

Iran–PJAK conflict

On September 28, 2006, Iran said that two members of the PKK (which Iran regularly confuses with the closely affiliated PJAK) blew up a gas pipeline to Turkey near the town of Bazargan in West Azerbaijan province.

Lo Hsing Han

Asia World Company is involved in a number of mega projects such as a Sino-Burma oil and gas pipeline project, a deep sea port at Kyaukpyu, the controversial Myitsone hydro-power plant and the TaSang hydro-power plant.

MasTec

The Ruby Pipeline is a 42-inch (1,100 mm) natural gas pipeline running from Opal, Wyoming, to Malin, Oregon.

Milford, Texas

Just after 8:30AM CDT on November 14, 2013, an explosion and resulting fire occurred near the intersection of Highway 77 and FM 308 when a Chevron Corporation liquefied petroleum gas pipeline was punctured by a Chevron drilling crew.

Mineral industry of Azerbaijan

The main conduit for Azerbaijan’s natural gas exports would be the South Caucasus Pipeline, also known as Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum, which would run parallel to the Baku-T’bilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline for most of its route before connecting to the Turkish gas pipeline network near the town of Horasan in Turkey.

Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline

The Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Mozdok in North Ossetia through Chechnya and Dagestan to Azerbaijan.

Natural-gas condensate

Woody Guthrie's autobiographical novel Seeds of Man begins with Woody and his uncle Jeff tapping a natural gas pipeline for drip gas.

Rockies

Rockies Express Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline from Rocky Mountains to Ohio

Southern Highlands Province

As a region rich in energy resources, the Southern Highlands was at the centre of plans to construct a gas pipeline to pump natural gas to Queensland in north Australia.

Timur Ravilich Ishmurat

Ishmuratov, Ravil Gumarov and Fanis Shaikhutdinov were arrested in 2005 for a role in a January 8, 2005, bombing of a natural gas pipeline.

Trans-Anatolian Pipeline

Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline, a proposed gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Europe

Willie Corduff

In 2004 Frank Fahey, then Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources signed a Compulsory Acquisition Order to force the raw gas pipeline through his land.