American activists have been tireless in efforts to block the development of the Keystone XL pipeline project.
The White House stalled the pipeline project in 2011 amid concerns it would damage the environment along the route.
Additionally, the State Department just recently affirmed that there would be minimal environmental impact from the proposed Keystone Pipeline project.
David Woodward, the British Petroleum executive in charge of the pipeline project, worried as he watched the revolution unfold on television.
Eni currently holds a stake in the Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline project in Turkey.
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Ritchie's 125 territory managers are information gatherers, too, expected to know every highway construction site, pipeline project and bridge going up in their area.
Opponents want U.S. President Barack Obama, who in the past has rejected rapid approval, to outright reject the pipeline project, arguing it would be an environmental disaster.
The Chinese are also involved in a separate planned natural gas pipeline project that will run westward from their British Columbia shale deposits to Vancouver for export to China.
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The loan, which was the largest ever provided to Russia by Eximbank, will finance the sale of 295 Caterpillar tractors for a natural gas pipeline project in the Siberian arctic.
The program sometimes includes challenges such as working with contractors who may not have the manpower or equipment to complete a pipeline project on time, or learning how to deal with local officials.
While the pipeline project is a better alternative from a carbon pollution standpoint than shipping the oil by rail, the emissions created by harvesting tar sands, processing them into oil and eventually burning it in automobiles in the U.S. and abroad will contribute to global warming.
In the case of the Siberian gas pipeline project, Moscow was well aware of the inordinate West European dependency on Soviet natural gas supplies -- ultimately projected to exceed 60% of total European gas consumption -- which would have resulted from the successful completion of both strands of the twin 3, 600-mile pipelines connected to the West European gas grid.
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Another project in the pipeline is the Snipe, a similar drone that would be mounted with guns.
However, the European Space Agency does have such a project in the pipeline.
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Yesterday, as expected, President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, a private infrastructure project meant to bring Canadian oil to Gulf Coast refineries.
Dubbed the "peace pipeline", talks on the project began in 1994.
The company has also teamed up with ConocoPhillips and pipeline owner KinderMorgan on a separate project to bring natural gas from the Rocky Mountains to Ohio.
It has opened major gas pipelines to China and Iran, and is considering taking part in the Nabucco pipeline - an EU-backed project designed to provide an alternative to Russian gas supplies to Europe.
And building a pipeline to Turkey from Baku would be child's play compared with the Russian project, which involves laying the deepest undersea pipeline in the world, through the corrosive sludge of the Black Sea bed.
Kevin Rudd, project manager for the Tombstone pipeline, said the repaired pipeline needs to be shored up or it surely will be washed away when the monsoon rains return next month.
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The proposed Keystone XL pipeline is the most studied and examined infrastructure project in our nations history.
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The U.S. has opposed the project, instead promoting an alternative pipeline that runs from the gas fields of Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and then to India.
Earlier in the week, Mr Hammond told MPs from Essex that he also recognised the strategic importance of the A120 - another project a long time in the pipeline - and he was looking forward to the outcome of a new report currently being prepared on the road by the Highways Agency.
With Connecticut planning on tearing up 900 miles of ground for gas pipeline in coming years, and Hartford eyeing a project with 160 miles of wastewater and sewer separation, there may be a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to piggyback on other infrastructure projects which involve crossing roads and other infrastructure.
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The China National project included construction of a 932-mile pipeline from Sudan to the Red Sea.
Though the project could produce thousands of jobs, the pipeline would stretch across private property and sensitive aquifers.
The most ambitious project is the 3, 600-mile Alaskan pipeline, which will run from the North Slope along the Alcan Highway through the Yukon and British Columbia.
The Satellite Sentinel Project released images Sunday that suggest a critical part of the oil pipeline infrastructure was destroyed.
Because the proposed pipeline would cross the US border it will require a State Department permit determining the project to be in the national interest.
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