VILNIUS, Lithuania—An explosion occurred Friday in a pipeline in central Lithuania carrying gas to the north of the country and neighboring Latvia but no injuries or significant supply disruptions were reported. Baltic media said the blast sent flames 50 meters (164 feet) into the sky and forced the protective evacuation of a nearby village. The…

Phillips 66 said on Friday it acquired all publicly held units of DCP Midstream LP in a sweetened deal that values the pipeline operator at about $8.7 billion and will help bulk up the U.S. refiner’s natural gas liquids business. The deal, the first major move by Mark Lashier who took over as chief executive…

NORFOLK, Va.—A diesel fuel leak in Virginia shut down part of the Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel pipeline, which supplies roughly half the fuel consumed on the East Coast, but it is expected to restart Saturday, the company said. The spill was discovered Tuesday. And while this particular line is shut down, the rest…

BERLIN—A Swiss court has granted a six-month “stay of bankruptcy” to the operating company for the never-opened Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was built to bring Russian gas to Germany but put on ice shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February. The company’s stay was extended from Jan. 10 through July 10 by a regional…

Five protesters involved in blocking access to the construction of a liquefied natural gas pipeline in northern B.C. last November have pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court for defying a court order that forbade them from continuing with the blockade. All five Coastal GasLink opponents were sentenced by Justice Michael Tammen at the B.C….

Canada’s TC Energy shut its Keystone pipeline in the United States after more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a creek in Kansas, making it one of the largest crude spills in the United States in nearly a decade. The cause of the leak, which occurred in Kansas about 20 miles (32 kilometers)…

The regional government said a gas pipeline exploded outside Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Saturday causing a large fire. Huge flames could be seen from miles around. According to the Russian Emergency Ministry, the explosion was caused by a pipeline failure and no one was hurt. The pressure on the main gas pipeline has been reduced,…

How the Biden administration addresses the shortage of distillate fuel oil in the United States will show if President Joe Biden will put America first, said a U.S. energy expert. “From the consumers’ standpoint, [it will show] who the Biden administration protects most, Europeans or their own citizens?” John Hunt, who worked in the energy…

BERLIN—A ship chartered by the operator of the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline has arrived at the site of last month’s explosions under the Baltic Sea to survey the damage, the company said Thursday. Undersea explosions late last month ruptured Nord Stream 1, which until Russia cut off supplies at the end of August…

WARSAW—Polish energy operator PERN said on Oct. 12 that it had detected a leak in a key pipeline that ships Russian oil to Germany via Poland, with Warsaw saying it’s investigating but there’s no indication of sabotage. After recent explosions rocked the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, suspicions were raised…