The final 195 miles of the Rockies Express-East pipeline was completed Nov. 12, entering service between the Lebanon Hub in Warren County, Ohio, and Clarington in Monroe County, Ohio.

Russian authorities said all of the onshore and offshore facilities for oil exports have been finished at the Port of Kozmino—the planned terminus of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline, now under construction.

The launch of the 8 billion cu m/year Medgaz gas pipeline from Algeria to southern Spain has once again been delayed, this time until June 2010, according to a spokesman for the Medgaz consortium.

China’s state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., aiming to improve the security and speed of Chinese oil supplies from the Middle East and Africa, has begun construction of import facilities for an oil pipeline across neighboring Myanmar.

Enterprise Products Partners LP and Duncan Energy Partners LP announced plans to extend their jointly owned Acadian Gas LLC subsidiary’s Louisiana intrastate natural gas pipeline system into northwest Louisiana.

Russia’s state-owned pipeline monopoly OAO Transneft has completed construction of a spur from the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline to the border with China, according Transneft Pres. Nikolai Tokarev.

Turkmenistan has completed construction on its 188-km section of a 7,000-km natural gas pipeline that extends from Turkmenistan to China, according to official media.

The governments of Italy, Russia, and Turkey—aiming to reduce oil shipping away from crowded Turkish straits—agreed to build a 550-km oil pipeline from Turkey’s Black Sea port of Samsun to its Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.

Enbridge Inc. has signed a letter of intent with Chevron USA Inc., Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC, and Marubeni Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. to construct and operate a 40-mile, 20-in. OD oil pipeline from the proposed Big Foot ultradeepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico.

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s staff issued a final environmental impact statement on Florida Gas Transmission Co.’s Phase VIII expansion project just 5 months after it issued a draft EIS on the proposed $2.46 billion project.

Kern River Gas Transmission Co. awarded Gulf Interstate Engineering Co. a contract to perform detailed engineering services on the compression facilities associated with its Apex Expansion Project.

Regency Energy Partners LP, Alinda Capital Partners LLC, and GE Energy Financial Services announced plans to construct a $47 million pipeline extension of the Haynesville Expansion Project in North Louisiana to increase capacity on the Regency Intrastate Gas System.

Russia’s state-owned natural gas monopoly OAO Gazprom, meeting the demand of the Russian government, has completed the construction of the second stretch of the 139-km Minsk-Vilnius-Kaunas-Kaliningrad gas pipeline.

Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) has completed construction of the 160-mile Texas Independence Pipeline (TIP), which increases its gas takeaway capacity in Texas by an incremental 1.1 bcfd.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who recently launched a major new oil field, has been told that state-owned pipeline monopoly OAO Transneft is on schedule with construction of both phases of the 4,130-km East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline.