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Date: 10/04/2012 Location: Sumner, Texas Description: A pipeline worker walks the length of a pipe as work continues. Oil has long lived in harmony with farmland and cattle across the Texas landscape, a symbiosis nurtured by generations and built on an unspoken honor code that allowed agriculture to thrive while oil was extracted. © AP Image/Tony Gutierrez Date: 01/14/2009 Location: Budapest, Hungary Description: Naftogaz did not deliver the gas to Europe, saying Russia's Gazprom demanded it use a route that was technically arduous and would force it to halt supplies to a large swath of its own territory. The politically charged gas dispute has dramatically lowered supplies to Europe and angered the European Union. © AP Image/Bela Szandelszky Date: 04/26/2012 Location: Lower Saxony, Germany Description: A worker cleans up at Syke during construction of the North European Gas Pipeline (NEL), a weld in a pipe. By the total number of 440-kilometer gas pipeline from Ludmin Mecklenburg Rehden in Lower Saxony to the future, natural gas from Siberia to be sponsored by the laid in the Baltic Nord Stream pipeline to Germany. © AP Image/Foto: Joerg Sarbach/dapd

The Secretary of State has the authority to issue Presidential Permits for cross-border liquid (water as well as petroleum product) pipelines and other cross-border infrastructure. The Bureau of Energy Resources Office of Energy Diplomacy receives and processes permit applications.

If you plan to request a Presidential Permit for a cross-border liquid pipeline, please call 202-647-7553, or submit your questions by e-mail to ENR_PipelinePresidentialPermit@state.gov.

In consultation with the Department of State, the Department of Energy is responsible for the permitting of cross-border electricity transmissions lines, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issues cross-border natural gas pipeline permits.

E.O. 13337 of April 30, 2004


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