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• 07/22/2011 -- Tax breaks ease development of LNG projects on Yamal Peninsula
  Russian natural gas producer Novatek, taking advantage of newly announced tax breaks, plans to construct an LNG facility on the northern Yamal Peninsula in 2016.
• 07/22/2011 -- Egypt, Israel seek court action over gas contract
  Shareholders in East Mediterranean Gas are seeking more than $8 billion in damages from the Egyptian government due to repeated attacks on a pipeline that have disrupted contracted supplies of natural gas to Israel.
• 07/20/2011 -- INGAA outlines pipeline safety action plan
  The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America outlined a detailed action plan to achieve pipeline safety goals, including a commitment to expand pipeline integrity management principles to all onshore gas transmission systems belonging to its members.
• 07/20/2011 -- OSHOT: Regulatory delays threaten Keystone XL, Cushing MarketLink
  Continued regulatory delays could place the proposed 700,000-b/d Keystone XL pipeline in jeopardy, according to Robert Jones, TransCanada vice-president and manager of the Keystone Pipeline project, while speaking to reporters July 20 on the sidelines of the Oil Sands & Heavy Oil Technologies conference in Calgary.
• 07/19/2011 -- Israel takes emergency measures to shore up energy supplies
  Israel Electric Corp. (IEC), strapped for supplies of natural gas following the recent attack on a pipeline from Egypt, will be allowed to use 500 million new Israeli shekels (NIS) ($145 million) for the purchase of emergency supplies of diesel fuel instead of power lines.
• 07/19/2011 -- EPA: Threat gone of more leaked oil from failed Silvertip line
  The threat of secondary releases from the ruptured portion of the Silvertip crude oil pipeline belonging to ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. has been eliminated, federal officials announced in Billings, Mont., following a July 1 pipeline break that resulted in an oil spill in the Yellowstone River.
• 07/18/2011 -- Eliminating all safety exemptions could backfire, states warn
  Eliminating all government agency exemptions as a condition for states to remain eligible for federal one-call and damage prevention grants would do more harm than good, a state pipeline regulator warned a US House Energy and Power Committee subcommittee on July 15.
• 07/18/2011 -- BP reports pipeline leak in Alaska's Lisburne field
  BP Exploration Alaska reported a spill of methanol and produced fluids at the Lisburne oil field on July 16. About 50-100 bbl of a methanol/produced fluid blend was spilled onto a gravel pad and a freshwater tundra pond, according to the company’s initial estimates.
• 07/15/2011 -- Tesoro to move Bakken crude oil via rail
  Tesoro Corp. plans to transport crude oil via a dedicated unit train from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota to its 120,000-b/cd refinery in Anacortes, Wash.
• 07/15/2011 -- PTTEP unit confirms plans for floating LNG scheme
  PTTEP Australasia confirmed last week plans to station a floating LNG vessel in the Timor Sea to develop its gas assets.