EDITORIAL

• Editorial, Volume II, issue 4 - April 2006
  by J. Tiratsoo, Global Pipeline Monthly
  
   

KEY PIPELINE PROJECTS

• Planning for the Urucu-Manaus gas pipeline
  by C.H.L.G. Villela, Petrobras
  by L. de Carvalho Dias Correia
  
   

BACKGROUND

• The Southern "Gate": the geostrategic ramifications of Ukraine's natural gas by-passes on SE Europe
  by T.G. Tsakiris, Panteion University of Athens
  
   
• South American pipeline wars: Chavez bloc races with oil cartel to grid the Continent
  by B. Weinberg
  
   

TECHNICAL ISSUES

• A view from outer space
  by J. Tiratsoo, Global Pipeline Monthly
  
   

NEWS: EUROPE

• France: GdF may join NEGP project
  
   
• France: GdF to invest $1.8bn in pipelines
  
   
• Germany: Merkel defends gas pipeline plan
  
   
• Germany: Schroeder elected chairman of NEGP
  
   
• Greece: US backs Balkan oil project
  
   
• Norway: pipe coating contract for Tyrihans
  
   
• Norway: UK gas supply increased
  
   
• Russia: Sakhalin II on course for Shell
  
   
• Russia: increases Caspian pipeline capacity with Kazakhstan
  
   
• Russia: Gazprom says NEGP will cost $10.5bn to construct
  
   
• Russia: Rosneft plans to build own oil refinery on eastern pipeline
  
   
• Russia: Baltic pipeline system reaches design capacity
  
   
• UK: work begins on £90-m all-Ireland gas link-up
  
   
• UK: BBL pipeline in the news...for the wrong reasons
  
   
• UK: New specification on AC corrosion
  
   
• UK: Pipelines 2006 gearing up
  
   

NEWS: AFRICA

• Algeria: engineering and design contract awarded for El Merk
  
   
• Ghana: W African gas pipeline project "now 84% complete"
  
   

NEWS: CENTRAL ASIA

• Armenia: Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to be operational by December
  
   
• Armenia: Russia confirms takeover of Iran-Armenia pipeline
  
   
• Azerbaijan: BTC oil line "to be ready late May"
  
   
• Azerbaijan: pipeline installation work for ACG, Shah Deniz
  
   
• China: Putin commits to gas but not to oil pipeline
  
   
• China: Telvent to supply SCADA for oil pipeline
  
   
• China: gas pipeline agreement signed with Turkemenistan
  
   
• China: two pipelines for coal-bed methane
  
   
• India: Iran, Pakistan, India to pursue pipeline
  
   
• India: awaiting Bangladesh OK on Myanmar pipeline
  
   
• Mongolia: gas pipeline from Irkutsk a possibility
  
   
• Vietnam: to have second gas pipeline in early 2007
  
   

NEWS: MIDDLE EAST & N AFRICA

• Egypt: details agreed of gas line extension to Turkey
  
   
• Israel: developing oil from shale
  
   
• Saudi Arabia: Saudi Aramco and McDermott sign pipeline contracts
  
   
• Syria: New line across Iraq
  
   

NEWS: SOUTH- AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

• Australia: HTC helps prepare for hydrogen economy
  
   
• Australia: companies borrow for expansion as economy grows
  
   

NEWS: NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

• Argentina: TGS and TGN gas line expansion bids
  
   
• Brazil: cost of building S America gas line will exceed $25bn estimate
  
   
• Brazil: $300-million offshore lines order
  
   
• Brazil: pipeline construction delays Peroa, Cangoa startup
  
   
• Canada: Enbridge increases size of S Access oil line
  
   
• Canada: Spearhead line delivers Canadian crude to OK
  
   
• Canada: new TSB statistics
  
   
• Canada: tolls approved for Canada oil pipe expansion
  
   
• Peru: Camisea NGL pipe leaks for the fifth time
  
   
• Peru: IDB holds third public consultation on Camisea project
  
   
• Trinidad: Cannonball project near completion
  
   
• US: FERC approves higher oil pipeline rates
  
   
• US: Calypso pipeline owners change course
  
   
• US: New crude oil line to Cheyenne, Wyoming
  
   
• US: Mackenzie Valley pipeline spurs Arctic coal-gasification plan
  
   
• US: Prudhoe pipeline leak "caused by internal corrosion"