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
New Directions Taken in Worldwide Quest for Oil
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
Order for Rotork Valve Actuators for Phase 1 of BA Energy’s Heartland Upgrader
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
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
$335 Million Gas Pipeline to Link Columbia and Venezuela
Ecuador to Halt Amazon Oil Drilling
RIL in Talks for Two Oil Blocks in Peru
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
U.S. Congress Considers Chevron's Role in Burma
Lundin Petroleum Acquires Exploration Block in Cambodia
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
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
Petra Energy Unit Wins Shell Contract in East Malaysia
Oil Search Shelves One of its Papua New Guinea Gas Projects
New Zealand’s Genesis Energy Expands Stake in Cardiff Gas
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 Inks Oil, Gas Production Pacts with Chevron, PTTEP
3. EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
Estonia Denies Permission to Nord Stream to Survey Seabed off its Coast for Pipeline
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
Total to invest $163.6 Million in German Refinery Desulphurization Unit
Ireland Opens Oil, Gas License Bidding For Porcupine Basin
NanoDynamics Exploring Oil and Gas Business with Netherlands Shell Joint Venture
Norway Blocks StatoilHydro Troll Gas Expansion
Gaz de France Becomes Largest Private Player in Romania's Gas Storage
Gulf Shores to Participate in Petro Canada North Sea Project
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
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
Alstom Wins $285 Million Power Plant Contract in Morocco
Shell Douses Four Month Old Nigerian Oil Pipeline Fire
Pressure on Big Oil Grows to End Gas Flaring in Nigeria
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 Reach Gas Deal
Ukraine’s Malyshev Plant Supplies Oil and Gas Equipment to Russia
Sasol to Boost Synfuels Operation by 20 Percent
Poland's Petrolinvest Expands Kazakh Oil Drilling
ONGC Mittal Takes 30 Percent in Turkmenistan Offshore Oil & Gas Block
Eleven Global Firms Vie for Bahrain’s Awali Oilfield Contract
Pakistan Willing to Import 5 bcf of Gas per Day from Iran
Militants Bomb Iraq’s Kirkuk Oil Pipeline
$205 Million Kuwaiti Gas Turbines and Turbogenerators Order for Alstom
Asry Completes Abu Dhabi’s $19 Million Albzoom Rig Revamp
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