Most of Turkmenistan's gas is exported through the Russian pipeline system.

(5) West African gas pipeline project

Russian gas is imported via Ukraine (Friendship pipeline), Norwegian gas is transported through Germany.

West Africa Gas Pipeline West African Power Pool IGAD HYCOS Project Renewable Energy Project Power Master Plan Gas Pipeline from Dar Es Salaam through Kenya to Kampala, Uganda Oil Pipeline from Eldoret, Kenya to Kampala, Uganda

The gas pipeline has now been turned on by the Hungarian authorities

This is mainly explained by increased oil and gas production and pipeline transport.

Gazprom s policy is to threaten client countries with high prices and stop deliveries until it gains full control over a country s gas pipeline system.

Marketing of the gas awaits the completion of the Alaska gas pipeline to carry it to the lower 48 states.

Even more importantly, its direct neighbors are either completely dependent on Russian gas supplies Ukraine and Belarus or, like Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, are dependent on Russia s pipeline system to sell their gas output.

26 October The main gas pipeline from Azerbaijan into Armenia and Nakhichevan is reopened.

In Turkmenistan also, gas exports are transshipped through a pipeline to the Russian Federation.

Moreover, Russia controls the vast majority of the gas pipeline system, and has negotiated individually with European countries, with the result that it holds a disproportionate degree of leverage over the European gas market.

Equally important, the panelists reported on the rising importance of liquid natural gas relative to pipeline gas, which has enormous geopolitical implications.

Natural gas, however, is the weak link. Asia s pipeline network is far too thin, and gas prices are among the highest in the world.

The gas is brought to the market through a gas pipeline network as well as own gas storage facilities with a capacity of 2.6 bcm and sold via own sales channels.

Asia s pipeline network is far too thin, and gas prices are among the highest in the world.

It delivers most of its gas through a new pipeline to China, as do Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Oil is reasonably easy to trade globally in maritime tankers, whereas in most gas markets the fixed pipeline between gas field and gas burner locks producers and consumers in an exclusive embrace.

Gazprom s aim is to control not only the gas industry in Georgia, but also the only pipeline that feeds Russian gas to both Georgia and Armenia.

This year, plans call for the completion of the gas service installation for an additional three population centres, and construction of the 450 million tenge Zhetybay Kuryk gas pipeline, with a 62 km intrasettlement distribution system, is to be completed.

And a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan, which would traverse the country, is coming closer to reality.

To get the gas into Yunnan, a much longer pipeline running the length of Burma must be built.

In the case of Uzbekistan, a pipeline stretches from Bukhara to the Urals for the export of natural gas.

The current Ukrainian government would happily hand over half of its pipeline system to Gazprom in exchange for a lower gas price, but Putin demands that Ukraine also join the customs union.

Moreover, an existing pipeline network implies that this conventional gas can be brought to Europe at a low marginal cost.

That plan calls for construction, with Brazil, of a pipeline that would bring Bolivian gas to the San Pablo market.

In some cases, the easiest way to bring it to market would be by sending it through a pipeline across the Bering Strait, and then feeding it into the proposed Alaska gas pipeline.

Azerbaijan also promotes global energy security through development of the Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan oil pipeline and the Baku Tbilisi Erzurum gas pipeline, as well as through the Baku Tbilisi Akhalkalaki Kars railroad project.

Gas began pumping on 3 January 2010, and the pipeline was inaugurated in a ceremony in Turkmenistan on 6 January 2010.

It should consider linking the opening of the Nord Stream pipeline, which would allow Russia to cut off gas to Poland and Ukraine while maintaining deliveries to Germany, to the opening of the proposed White Stream pipeline to bring gas from Azerbaijan directly to Ukraine via Georgia, bypassing Russia.

A pipeline stretches from Bukhara (in south western Uzbekistan) to the Urals for the export of natural gas, and a high proportion of local industry is based on energy from gas.

The crisis in Ukraine, many of whose Soviet era industries depend on cheap Russian gas, soon spread to Europe, which consumes 80 of Russian gas exports, when Ukraine began to divert gas from the pipeline that crosses its territory.

Israel, like Turkey and the US, must be hoping that Turkmenistan s new rulers will seek to diversify gas distribution by adopting a project to build a gas pipeline beneath the Caspian Sea.

Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder even became chair of a Russian German consortium to build a new gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.

On average, every year or two, a new oil or gas pipeline opens up under the Mediterranean, connecting North Africa to Europe.

And the pipeline, which transfers gas to Israel through Sinai, was subject to frequent sabotage attacks throughout last year, causing supply disruptions.

China will complete a 4,000 km pipeline by 2005 to transport 12 billion m3 of gas annually to the east of the country, and this gas will largely replace coal and biomass usage.

In return, Turkey is to help the KRG build pipeline infrastructure that will allow oil and gas to be exported to Turkey without relying on Iraq s national pipeline, which is controlled by the central government in Baghdad.

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In retaliation, some have blocked highways, kidnapped tourists and foreign workers, and repeatedly attacked the pipeline carrying natural gas to Israel and Jordan.

Last year s experience with interrupted gas supplies did have one benefit new life was blown into plans for alternative routes, like the Nabucco pipeline that is to bring Azeri gas to Europe through Turkey.

Building of the pipeline has been delayed by the availability of low cost natural gas in Canada and development of non conventional gas fields in the lower 48 states, as well as political considerations.

But now it's contributing gas across the Caspian Sea to provide for Europe, and even a potentially Turkmen Afghan Pakistan India pipeline as well.

Companies like Rolls Royce and British Gas operate impressive apprenticeship schemes that add value for their businesses by creating a pipeline of talented recruits.

The two of them are building, or trying to build, the Nord Stream gas pipeline, an exceptionally costly project that satisfies twin strategic objectives.