Researchers are taking the guesswork out of repairing corroded oil and gas pipelines with two recent studies that appeared in the journal Experimental Techniques.

Finland supports the Nord Stream pipeline being built under the Baltic Sea to pump Russian natural gas to Germany but will study its environmental consequences, the Finnish ambassador to Moscow said.

Dutch company Nederlandse Gasunie NV will be included in a Baltic Sea pipeline designed to bypass several European countries and ship Russian gas directly to Germany, according to an agreement signed by Russia and Netherlands on Tuesday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described plans to extend the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Europe as very promising.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and two of his South American counterparts have opened a gas pipeline between Colombia and Venezuela.

Iran is ready to sign a bilateral agreement with Pakistan to build a gas pipeline, despite one of the project partners' absence, acting Iranian Petroleum Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said Thursday.

A German-Russian consortium's request to carry out a seabed survey needed to engineer the best route for an undersea gas pipeline was refused by Estonia’s government on Thursday.

Gas supplies to Turkey were stopped because of explosion at a natural gas pipeline from Iran, the state-run pipeline company said Monday.

Russian pipeline-building company Stroytransgaz said Monday it had finished constructing a short natural gas pipe section in Greece, which extends an existing route from Alexandroupolis to Turkey.

Siemens Power Generation (PG) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Secure Energy, Inc. to supply two Siemens entrained-flow gasifiers, including gasifier island design packages for the Secure Energy Gasification Plant in Decatur, Illinois. The gasifiers will have a thermal capacity of 500 megawatts (MWth) each.

Iran, Pakistan and India have agreed on a formula for the price of natural gas to be pumped through a pipeline that will link the three countries, India's Asian Age daily said.

India, Iran and Pakistan failed to reach a compromise on tariffs on natural gas deliveries and will continue talks on signing a tripartite gas pipeline agreement in July, the Indian press said citing government sources.