GAIL bags licence for Gurdaspur-Jammu gas pipeline

State-owned GAIL (India) Ltd beats Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to win a licence to build a gas pipeline from Gurdaspur in Punjab to Jammu, oil regulator PNGRB said. In a statement, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) said that it had in January invited application cum bids for grant of authorisation for the Gurdaspur-Jammu

Gazprom to shut gas pipeline to Europe for maintenance

Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom says a key pipeline conveying natural gas to Europe will shut down for three days at the end of this month to undergo “routine maintenance.” The latest shutdown will come a month after Gazprom restored natural gas supply through the pipeline to only a fifth of its capacity after a

EHB sets targets for hydrogen pipelines completion

The European Hydrogen Backbone (EHB) initiative, an industry association made up of gas transmission system operators (TSOs), now targets almost 28,000km of hydrogen pipelines by 2030, and 53,000km by 2040. Around 60% of this would be repurposed existing natural gas pipelines, and 40% would be new pipelines. This time last year the EHB proposed an