Siemens announced it has been awarded a more than $200 million USD (150 million Euro) contract from TransCanada Corporation (TransCanada), to supply the Keystone Pipeline project (Keystone) with electrical equipment, electrical power supply and pumping equipment.

China and Kazakhstan agreed yesterday (August 19) to expand an oil pipeline that will link China to the Caspian Sea.

Gas shortage in Nigeria will soon be over following the fixing of the Shell pipeline, Mr. Funsho Kupolokun, the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has said.

A 4-year study of mercury in crude oil refined in the United States has found that, of the two major sources of U.S. fossil energy mined coal and crude oil crude oil contains much less toxic mercury, on average, than coal. The study is scheduled for publication in the July 1 issue of ACS Environmental Science & Technology, a semi-monthly journal.

Iran, India and Pakistan are making progress in talks on a planned $7 billion gas pipeline.

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said on Thursday, May 24th, that it had completed the construction of the first section of the Haidach underground gas storage facility in Salzburg, Austria, together with Austria's RAG and Russian-German joint venture WINGAS.

Russia's government approved on May 22nd a plan to build a new pipeline to transport oil from the main pipeline that supplies oil via Belarus to the European countries.

The main militant group in restive southern Nigeria said Tuesday that it has bombed three major oil pipelines.

Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko met on Friday, April 27th, to discuss bilateral economic cooperation and preparations for the EURO 2012.