Subject: New Oil and Gas Projects For November ‘06
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subscribers. Here are the project titles for the month of November ‘06.
OIL AND GAS
UPDATE
November 2006
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
OVERVIEW
· Global Oil Output ‘will start to decline by 2015’
AMERICAS
U.S.
· Foster Wheeler Awarded EPC Contract by Sinclair Oil
· Contango Oil & Gas Estimates New Discovery production Costs to be about $2.7 Million
· Natural Gas Boom Brings Economic Prosperity to Northern Louisiana Parishes
· Devon Energy Announces $690 Million contract to Help in Development of Gulf Field
· Halliburton Says No Sign of U.S. Gas Drilling Slowdown
· Texas Land Office Discovers Leak in Abandoned Rig
· X-Change Corporation Licenses Six RFID Patents Related to Oilfield Use
· Curtiss-Wright Expands Portfolio of Oil & Gas Technology
· Oil, Gas Lease Sale Postponed in Louisiana Settlement to Assess Environmental Effects
· Monarch Partners with Daybreak Oil and Gas on California East Slopes Project
· Kokiak Oil & Gas Drilling Vermillion Basin Well
· Oil and Gas Drilling Regulations in Colorado’s Ouray County Questioned
· Chukchi Sea Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Potential Effects Analyzed
· Judge Delaying Oil, Gas Drilling in Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas
· Monitoring Shock and Vibration on Oil Rigs
· U.S. to Help States Repair Coastlines near Oil Rigs
· Rig Firm, MD Cowan, Announces Deals during Permian Basin Oil Show
CANADA
· Encana and Anadarko Pull out of Mackenzie Delta
· Canada’s Oil and Gas given Flexibility under New Green Plan
· Talisman Drills New Gas Well in Alberta
· Canada’s Oil, Natural Gas Rights at $152 Million and Climbing
· Canadian Forecast Calls for Decreased Drilling Activity amid Lower Gas Prices
BOLIVIA
· Petrobras, Repsol Agree to Bolivia’s Oil, Gas Law
ASIA / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
·
GEA Energy Technology Wins Orders from Asia, Africa and the
Middle East
AUSTRALIA
· Oil Rig for Australia’s Rottnest Island Waters
· East Timor to Soon Ratify Sunrise Oil and Gas Treaty
BANGLADESH
· Halliburton to Sell Oil & Gas Assets in Bangladesh
CHINA
· New Oil and Gas Field with Estimated 150-billion cubic Meters of Deposits Found in China
· PetroChina Finds Oil, Gas Flows in Junggar Basin
INDIA
· India Estimated to be $90 Billion Oil and Gas Industry
INDONESIA
· Chevron to Spend $6 Billion on Offshore Indonesian Gas Project
MYANMAR
· Myanmar to Reopen Onshore Gas Exploration to Foreign Companies
NEW ZEALAND
· Pogo Producing Gets Green Light for New Zealand Oil and Gas Exploration
PAKISTAN / JAPAN
· Pakistan/Japan Agree to Explore Avenues for Oil, Gas Cooperation
SINGAPORE
· Singapore Firms Lead the Hunt to Find Oil on the Ocean Floor
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
UNITED KINGDOM
· Europa Oil & Gas to Acquire Crosby Warren Oilfield
· Talisman Makes Oil Find in UK North Sea
ANGOLA
· South Korea to Develop Oil, Gas in Angola
· Exploration Success continues with BP’s 11th Oil Strike on Angola Block 31
· Gazprom to Invest $100 Million in Angola Oil & Gas Projects
TURKEY
· Toreador Resources to Drill Turkish Gas this Year
ALGERIA
· Algeria Tightens Grip on Oil and Natural Gas
EGYPT
· Egypt, China to Jointly Build 3 Oil Rigs by 2007
LIBYA
· RWE Dea Announces First Oil Discovery in Libya
· Bahrain’s VC Bank Acquires Stake in Major Oil Drilling Company
NIGERIA
· Refinery Plants Underway in 6 States in Nigeria
· Nigeria to Audit its Oil and Gas Reserves, Official Says
ZAMBIA
· Zambia Discovers Oil, Gas near Angola Border
AFGHANISTAN
· Oil, Gas Reserves in Afghanistan 10 Times more than Predicted
AZERBAIJAN
· Lukashenka Proposes to Produce Oil and Gas Jointly with Azerbaijan
RUSSIA
· Victoria Oil & Gas Confirms Hydrocarbon Presence at Russia’s West Medvezhye Project
· Russia to Allow U.S., U.K. Audits at Controversial Sakhalin Island Gas Deposit
· Russia Moves to Ease Fears on Oil Majors
TURKMENISTAN
· Turkmenistan Unveils Oil & Gas Development goals for Next 23 Years
BAHRAIN
· Bahrain Invites Firms to Bid
IRAN
· Salman Oil and Gas Project 90 Percent Complete
· Karun Oil and Gas Production Co. to Install New Turbo Pump Soon
· Iran’s Oil Minister commissions Major Gas Reservoir
IRAQ
· Japan to Lend Iraq $3.5 Billion for Oil, Gas Projects
SAUDI ARABIA
· Foster Wheeler-Led JV Wins Saudi Aramco Khurais EPC Contract
UAE
· GE Upgrades Abu Dhabi Gas Plant
· Foster Wheeler Awarded Two Contracts by Abu Dhabi
· Foster Wheeler Unit Wins FEED Contract for UAE Oil Field
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Bob McIlvaine
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