New Oil and Gas Projects For November 08
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 ‘08.
OIL & GAS UPDATE
November 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
Demand for Floating Rigs Remains Strong
Record Rig Costs will Jeopardize Deepwater Oil Projects
AMEC Expands into Offshore Decommissioning with SeaMetric Agreement
Enterprise's Offshore Pipelines Damaged by Storm
RTI, Eastman to Commercialize Syngas Cleanup Technology
Honeywell Fiber Gives a 'Lift' to Offshore Oil Rig Construction Slings
Sempra Energy Acquires EnergySouth for $510 Million
ATP Oil & Gas Cuts 2008-09 Drilling Budget by $200 Million
Athens Group Announces Post-Hurricane Remediation Service
GEFCO Announces Production of the SpeedStar SS-1100 Rig
Fierce Fight over Tax on Colorado Oil, Gas Industry
Alabama State Oil and Gas Board Grants Falcon's MoBay Storage Hub Petition
Alaska, Feds Investigate Rupture of Prudhoe Bay Gas Line
Global Industries Wins $46 Million Pemex Pipeline Contract
Alaska, Exxon Mobil Work to Settle Disputes over Gas Pipeline
BLM Nets $19 Million in Oil and Gas Leases Sale
CB&I Gets EPC Contract for Portland Project
U.S. Coast Guard Helps Ratify New Marine Diesel Mandates
Jacobs Engineering Gets Construction Contract from Flint Hills Resources
Shaw Group Wins $400 Million Engineering Contract
Questions Regarding Pit and Waste Rules Prove Tricky for Colorado Oil, Gas Panel
Keyera to Acquire Alberta Midstream Facilities from Spectra Energy
RCMP Investigate Bomb Blast along B.C. Encana Gas Pipeline
Jacobs Gets Contract from EPCOR for Coal-fired Gasification
Cuba Estimates Offshore Oil Reserves of 20 Billion Barrels
Fluor to Expand its Argentina Operations
T-3 Energy Services Receives $3 Million Order for Diamond Series Double Ram Subsea BOPS
SoluChem Sells Two Oil Rigs in Colombia and Peru for $3.5 Million
Ivanhoe Energy to Develop Ecuador's Pungarayacu Heavy-oil Field
ShawCor Announces $60 Million Contract to Provide Pipe Coating Services for Trinidad North East
Baker Hughes Completes First Zero Discharge Well in Browse Basin’s Scott Reef
PetroChina Begins Work on Baoji-Hanzhong Gas Pipeline
China to Build 150,000 Kilometers of Oil and Gas Pipelines in Coming Years
Sevan Marine Seeks to Delay Delivery of Rigs Due to Financial Woes
Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Husky to Invest $91 Million in Indonesia Oil and Gas Blocks
Malaysia’s Petronas Carigali Awards 15 Contracts to Five Local Fabricators
Aker Solutions Signs Subsea Supply Agreement with Shell Malaysia
AMEC Signs MoU to Help South Korean Energy Industry Develop
Japanese Firms Boost Vietnamese Oil Industry
Positive Results from Stream Oil & Gas Study of Albania’s Delvina Gas Field Power Plant
Nord Stream Consortium Says Project Development on Track
EU Says OPEC-style Gas Cartel would Force Reconsideration of Energy Policy
Ascent Resources Begins 3D Seismic Survey in Hungary
Enel and F2i to Develop Natural Gas Storage Projects in Italy
Eni, Enel to Collaborate On CO2 Capture Pilot
StatoilHydro Signs $490 Million in Frame Agreements
Bergen Group Signs $81.37 Million Upgrade of Three Transocean Semis
IFE’s Team Work on Multiphase Technology Awarded StatoilHydro Research Prize
Wintershall, Electricite de France Buy up North Sea Oil and Gas Assets
New PE Resin for Pipe Coatings from Lyondell
Technip Awarded Contract for the Babbage Development
Foster Wheeler Awarded FEED by BP Exploration for Development Project in Algeria
Chevron Places $16 Million in MARS Systems Orders for Offshore Angola
Exxon is Ordering more Equipment and Digging more Wells in Chad
Nigeria’s Senate, Oil Firms Set for Gas Flaring Showdown
Fluor Wins Russian Sibur Gas Processing Expansion Project
KazMunaiGas Interested in BP's Stake in Caspian Pipeline
Halliburton Signs Kazakh Cooperation Ddeal
Russian Drilling Rig Manufacturers Lose $203 Million in Uzbekistan from Lack of Government Support
Addax Petroleum Acquires Interest in Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum Kick off $650 Million Kurdish Natural Gas Production Project
ONGC Videsh may Bid for 8 Iraqi Oil, Gas Blocks
Symposium on Kuwait's Fourth Refinery
Electro-Flow Controls Announces $1 Million in Major Middle East Contracts
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