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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