Subject:  New Oil and Gas Projects For Nov. ‘07

 

New oil and gas projects are reported monthly to Scrubber/Adsorber/Biofilter World Markets 

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com//brochures/air.html#n008 subscribers.  Here are the project titles for the month of November 2007.

OIL & GAS

UPDATE

November 2007

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

OVERVIEW

New Directions Taken in Worldwide Quest for Oil

1. AMERICAS

U.S.

GlobalSantaFe Signs Contract with Hyundai to Build Ultradeepwater Rig

TEPPCO Expands Oklahoma Storage Facility by Nearly Fifty Percent

NGAS, Seminole to Build Appalachian Processing Plant

Kingslake Energy Buys Mineral Rights on 20,000 Acres near Lexington, KY

Operators Resume Oil Drilling at Veneco’s Platform Grace

Halliburton Seeks Stakes in Gulf Oil Firms

Fluor Company Lands $20 Million in Offshore Drilling Contracts

BLM says Oil, Gas Leases Net more than $14 Million

Air Pollution Rules for Oil, Gas Working for Colorado

XTO Energy Buys Texas Barnett Shale Natural-Gas Properties for $550 Million

Mustang Engineering Awarded Detailed Design for ATP’s Mirage Topsides

Saratoga Resources Strikes $116 Million Deal to Buy Harvest Oil

Houston’s Tecton Energy Plans to Explore for Oil in Galisteo Basin

Non-Profit Group turns up Heat over Natural-Gas Extraction in Colorado’s Roan Plateau

CANADA

Order for Rotork Valve Actuators for Phase 1 of BA Energy’s Heartland Upgrader

MEXICO

Mexican Pipeline Blasts Accelerate Expansion Plans

Jackup under Contract to Pemex Strikes Platform, Leaks Oil and Gas

Chevron to Help Train Pemex in Expanding Deepwater Oil Drilling

BRAZIL

Aspen Aerogels to Insulate 21-Kilometer Deep Sea Gas Pipeline in Brazil

Petrobras Urges Approval of New Brazil Oil Tax Deal

Petrobras Confirms New $1.4 Billion Rig Contract with Keppel-Technip

Brazil Plans to Spend $35.5 Million on Oil and Gas Exploration in Amazon

COLOMBIA / VENEZUELA

$335 Million Gas Pipeline to Link Columbia and Venezuela

ECUADOR

Ecuador to Halt Amazon Oil Drilling

PERU

RIL in Talks for Two Oil Blocks in Peru

2. ASIA

AUSTRALIA

ShawCor Announces $85 Million Contract to Provide Pipe Coating Services for Woodside Pluto LNG Project

Australia’s Otto Energy’s Big Oil, Gas Prospects Confirmed by Data

Wood Group Pressure Control Wins $1 Million Plus Contract with Total E & P

AUSTRALIA / MALAYSIA / NIGERIA

Rolls-Royce Inks $64 Million in New Gas Compression Contracts

BURMA

U.S. Congress Considers Chevron's Role in Burma

CAMBODIA

Lundin Petroleum Acquires Exploration Block in Cambodia

CHINA

Awilco Offshore Signs Semisubmersible Rigs Contract for China Facility

China's Oil, Gas Pipelines Undergoing Rapid Growth

Plans for CBM Pipelines Underway in China

CNOOC to Build Deep-Water Drilling Platform

INDIA

Larsen & Toubro Wins Sulfur Recovery Unit Project from Indian Oil

Bhel Plans to Enter Offshore Rig Business

Triveni Joins with GE for Oil & Gas Sector Compressors

MALAYSIA

Petra Energy Unit Wins Shell Contract in East Malaysia

NEW GUINEA

Oil Search Shelves One of its Papua New Guinea Gas Projects

NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand’s Genesis Energy Expands Stake in Cardiff Gas

PHILIPPINES

Philippines DOE Awarded 9 New Service Contracts for Oil and Gas

Philippines Defer Plan on Drilling Contract for Malampaya

Oil Exploration in West Cebu Starts in November

THAILAND

Thailand Inks Oil, Gas Production Pacts with Chevron, PTTEP

3. EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

ESTONIA

Estonia Denies Permission to Nord Stream to Survey Seabed off its Coast for Pipeline

FRANCE

Siemens Power Generation to Construct Gas-fired Combined-cycle Power Plant for Endesa France

GE F-Class Technology for French Power Plant in Brittany Region

GERMANY

Total to invest $163.6 Million in German Refinery Desulphurization Unit

IRELAND

Ireland Opens Oil, Gas License Bidding For Porcupine Basin

NETHERLANDS

NanoDynamics Exploring Oil and Gas Business with Netherlands Shell Joint Venture

NORWAY

Norway Blocks StatoilHydro Troll Gas Expansion

ROMANIA

Gaz de France Becomes Largest Private Player in Romania's Gas Storage

UNITED KINGDOM

Gulf Shores to Participate in Petro Canada North Sea Project

EGYPT

Egyptian Refining Retains KBC as Tech Rep for $2.25 Billion Mostorod Complex

Halliburton Awards $500,000 Egypt Pipeline Technology Contract to Tracero

GE Gas Turbines Contract for Egypt worth more than $111 Million

KENYA

Lundin Petroleum Joins other International Oil and Gas Companies in Kenya’s Hunt for Oil

Canada’s Vangold, Signs Deal to Explore for Oil in Kenya

MOROCCO

Alstom Wins $285 Million Power Plant Contract in Morocco

NIGERIA

Shell Douses Four Month Old Nigerian Oil Pipeline Fire

Pressure on Big Oil Grows to End Gas Flaring in Nigeria

RUSSIA

erinco to Build Russian 403MW Gas-fired Combined-Cycle Plant

Czech Oil Firm MND Signs Contract on Oil, Gas Extraction in Russia

Russia Becoming Successful Market for Equipment Suppliers

RUSSIA / UKRAINE

Russia, Ukraine Reach Gas Deal

UKRAINE

Ukraine’s Malyshev Plant Supplies Oil and Gas Equipment to Russia

SOUTH AFRICA

Sasol to Boost Synfuels Operation by 20 Percent

KAZAKHSTAN

Poland's Petrolinvest Expands Kazakh Oil Drilling

TURKMENISTAN

ONGC Mittal Takes 30 Percent in Turkmenistan Offshore Oil & Gas Block

BAHRAIN

Eleven Global Firms Vie for Bahrain’s Awali Oilfield Contract

IRAN

Pakistan Willing to Import 5 bcf of Gas per Day from Iran

IRAQ

Militants Bomb Iraq’s Kirkuk Oil Pipeline

KUWAIT

$205 Million Kuwaiti Gas Turbines and Turbogenerators Order for Alstom

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Asry Completes Abu Dhabi’s $19 Million Albzoom Rig Revamp

 

 

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