Project Update

Current status of key projects


North America Latin America Asia
Europe Middle East & Africa




North America


Bluestone Gathering System 

June 1, 2013
The project entails construction of a 70-km, 16–20-inch- diameter underground natural gas gathering pipeline to deliver natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation to the Millennium Pipeline in Broome County and to Tennessee Pipeline in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania.

North–South Upstate Pipeline 

June 1, 2013
The project entails construction of a 60-mile (97-km) pipeline to connect the Dominion Transmission System near Cortland, in New York state, and the Tennessee Gas Pipeline System near Syracuse, also in New York state.

Spectra Energy New Jersey-New York Expansion Project 

June 1, 2013
Spectra Energy's New Jersey-New York expansion project involves the extension of its existing Texas Eastern Transmission and Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline systems to deliver natural gas to the New Jersey and New York areas, including Manhattan.

Coastal GasLink Project 

May 1, 2013
Construction of a 700-km pipeline for transporting natural gas to an upcoming liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility near Kitimat, British Columbia, with an initial capacity of about 1.7 Bcf per day (48.14 MMcm per day) of gas.



Latin America


Los Ramones Pipeline Project 

June 1, 2013
The project entails the construction of a 1,021-km, 48-inch natural gas pipeline from South Texas to Mexico, with a capacity of 2.1 Bcf per day, importing shale gas from the United States.

Gasoducto del Noreste Argentino (GNEA) Natural Gas Pipeline 

May 1, 2013
Construction of a 1,465-km, 30-inch (762-mm) pipeline from Salta to Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa, Misiones and Santa Fe provinces in northern Argentina.

Sasabe–Guaymas Gas Pipeline 

May 1, 2013
The 560-km pipeline will start at the interconnection of a pipeline on the United States border and the delivery point will be in the state of Sonora.

Lakach Natural Gas Pipeline 

May 1, 2013
The project entails construction of a 60-km, 18-inch umbilical pipeline to transport gas from the Lakach deep-water natural gas field in the Gulf of Mexico to the mainland.



Asia


West–East Natural Gas Pipeline 

June 1, 2013
The project entails the construction of five natural gas pipelines from the western part of China to the eastern part of the country.

Zhongjiang–Luojiang Natural Gas Pipeline Project 

June 1, 2013
The project entails construction of a 44-km natural gas pipeline from Zhongjiang county to Luojiang county in the Deyang city.

Iran-Pakistan Natural Gas Pipeline Project (Peace Pipeline) 

June 1, 2013
Construction of a natural gas pipeline of capacity 55 Bcm annually, from Asalouyeh (in Iran) to Pakistan (covering the provinces of Balochistan, Sindh and Multan).

Sukon Lhok Pipeline Project 

May 1, 2013
The project entails construction of a 370-km pipeline to distribute gas from the Arun terminal in Aceh to the Belawan floating storage and re-gasification unit (FSRU) in North Sumatra.



Europe


Nabucco Classic/Nabucco West Natural Gas Pipeline Project [free access]

June 1, 2013
Construction of 3,900 km natural gas pipeline from Erzurum (Turkey) via Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary to Baumgarten (Austria).

South Stream Natural Gas Pipeline Project 

June 1, 2013
Construction of four parallel pipelines of 900 km each from Russia, via the Black Sea, to Bulgaria, with a design capacity of 15.5 Bcm per annum each.

Amber Natural Gas Pipeline 

June 1, 2013
Construction of a 562-km pipeline from the Świnoujście (north-west Poland) LNG terminal (expected to become operational in 2015) to Lithuania.

Jemgum UGS 

June 1, 2013
Construction of an underground natural gas storage (UGS) facility of capacity 2 Bcm at Jemgum, near the German–Dutch border, in Lower Saxony, Germany.



Middle East & Africa


Yas–Mina Zayed Gas Pipeline Project 

June 1, 2013
The project entails the construction of a 45-km-long, 24-inch (61-cm) pipeline from Yas Island to the new pressure-reduction station in the Mina Zayed area for the supply of natural gas to the existing natural gas vehicle (NGV) filling station.

Iran–Iraq–Syria Natural Gas Pipeline 

May 1, 2013
The project involves construction of a 1,500-km-long (750-mile) natural gas pipeline to transport Assalouyeh gas to Damascus from the giant South Pars field in the Persian Gulf via Iran.

Basra–Aqaba Oil and Natural Gas pipeline, Iraq - Jordan 

May 1, 2013
The USD18 billion project entails construction of a 1,680-km double pipeline from Basra in Iraq to Aqaba port in Jordan and a sub-line extending to Jordan’s refinery in Zarqa.

Nasrabad Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility 

April 1, 2013
The USD815 million project entails construction of an underground natural gas storage (UGS) facility in the Nasrabad region near Kashan.