Oil Sands & Gas Shale UPDATE
August 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
OVERVIEW
Statoil Considers Natural Gas to be Fuel of the Future
ThermoEnergy Signs Contract to Deploy Mobile Frack Water Production System
AMERICAS
U.S.
State Senate Panel Supports 'Fracking' Moratorium in California
NTSB Finds Fault with Enbridge in 2010 Michigan Pipeline Spill
U.S. Fines Enbridge $3.7 Mln for 2010 Michigan Oil Spill
Chesapeake Ordered to pay $100 Mln in Claims
Forest Oil Provides Eagle Ford Update and Announces Second Half of 2012 Capital and Drilling Program
Report says $163 Bln Currently Invested in U.S. Oil, Gas Projects
Mountainview Energy Closes On Williston Basin Properties for $12,579,000
Crestwood Midstream to Acquire Barnett Shale Assets for $90 Mln
Hess Has Up to $2 Bln in Asset Sales 'Well Under Way'
EQT Corp Converting Shale Gas Drilling Rigs to LNG
Report Says Marcellus Shale Growth a Positive for U.S. Midstream Companies
TransCanada Receives Final Permit for Gulf Coast Portion of Keystone XL
CANADA
Jacobs Wins Shell Canada Jackpine Tailings Contract
CB&I Announces Kearl Oil Sands $300 Mln Expansion Project Contract
China’s CNOOC Takeover of Canada’s Nexen for $15 Bln
CEMATRIX Announces $3.2 Mln of New Contracts
Suncor, Total May Not Proceed With New Oil-Sands Mines
British Columbia Lays Down Pipeline "Minimum Requirements" for Govt. And Enbridge
Nexen Takeover by CNOOC Raises Pipeline Issues
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Senex Energy Contracts Weatherford Rig for Shale Gas Wells in Australia’s Cooper Basin
CHINA
Shell to Invest over $500 Mln in China on Shale, Tight Gas Play
Leyshon Resources to Acquire100% Interest in Pacific Asia Petroleum Shale Gas Assets in China
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
EUROPE
Success for EU Shale Gas Will Depend on Better Fracking Process
POLAND
Polish Shale Gas Search to Get $515 Mln from State Firms
ALGERIA
Algeria’s Sonatrach to Sign Partnerships with Shell, Exxon on Shale Gas
IRAN
Iran’s NIOC Conducting Study on Shale Oil
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