New Oil and Gas Projects For September ‘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 September ‘08.
OIL AND GAS
UPDATE
September 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
Steel Piping for Gas Wells in Short Supply
90 Billion Barrels of Oil and 1,670 Trillion Cubic Feet of Natural Gas Assessed in the Arctic
United States Oil and Gas Files Patent Pending for a Simple Fiber-Optic Seismometer
Dresser-Rand to Acquire Arrow Industries and Completes Acquisition of Enginuity LLC Assets
Solar Power Helps Protect Puget Sound Energy's Natural Gas System
Enterprise Announces JV Texas Offshore Oil Port, Pipeline System
Oil Purification Systems and Felderhoff Brothers Drilling Develop New Fluid Cleaning Technology
Tres Palacios Gas Storage Gets Green Light from FERC
John Crane and Siemens Announce Gas Seal Agreement
Canada’s Precision Drilling to Buy Grey Wolf for $2 Billion
Enterprise Announces North Texas Pipeline Expansion
Oil Industry Tallies up Damage from Gustav
Rowan Inks $160 Million Rig Deal with McMoRan
Chevron Plans Base Oil Plant at Pascagoula, MS
BP Awards $3.8 Billion Whiting Refinery Delayed Coker Contract to Foster Wheeler
Oil Industry Sums up Preliminary Damage from Gustav
Enbridge and BP Plan up to $2 Billion Pipeline Expansions to Get Canada Oil to Gulf
Vector Plans Open Season for Proposed Third Pipeline Expansion
U.S. Review Clears Pemex Pipeline on its Environmental Assessment
Siemens Gasification Technology Selected for 270 MW Canada Power Plant
Nexen Update on Canada’s Long Lake Project
Mexican Opposition Parties Submit Pemex Legislation
Bolivia to Pay Shell for Transredes Pipeline Stake
Petrobras Boosts Presence in Chilean Market
Pacific Rubiales and Ecopetrol Award $320 Million Contract for Colombia’s Rubiales Oil Pipeline
PetroSA Qualifies to Explore Venezuela Off-shore Gas
PetroChina to Build 400,000 cbm Storage Tank in Changsha, Hunan Province
Indonesian $246 Million Combined-cycle Plant Contract for Alstom
At Least Twenty Oil, Gas Basins Found in E Indonesia
ASEAN Officials to Discuss Gas Pipeline Network Expansion
Foster Wheeler Announces Several Projects
MISCELLANEOUS OIL AND GAS COMPANY NEWS
Subsea 7 Wins $100 Million Contract from StatoilHydro for Troll B Gas Injection Facilities
StatoilHydro's Lund Announces Oil and Gas Production Outlook and Recent Discovery
Aker Solutions wins $240 Million Order from Sevan Marine
Det Norske Veritas, Partners Developing CO2 Pipeline Standard
Poland Plans 800MW Gas-Fired Plant with Germany’s RWE
Gassco Awards Contracts to IKM Gruppen for Skanled Pipeline System
U.S. Firms Find Doing Business with Libya Intimidating despite Better Relations
Bloodless Coup Threatens Mauritania's Oil, Gas Industry
Shell Says, No Real Progress Fixing Nigeria Trunkline
Militants Destroy Gas Pipeline in Nigeria’s Rivers State
BP Says Testing Begins on BTC Pipeline through Georgia Ahead of Full Restart
VP Cheney Looking to Secure Energy Links in Azerbaijan
EU Sanctions against Russia as Key Fuel Furnisher in the Pipeline in Question
Russia Eyes New Energy Markets Causing Consternaion within the EU
Fifteen Countries Eager to Invest in Iran’s Oil and Gas Sector
CNPC to Develop Ahdab Oil Field in Iraq
Iraq Expects to Gross $55 Billion in China Oil Deal
New Amiad AMF Self-Cleaning Microfiber Filter Ideal for Oil and Gas Production
Zion Oil & Gas and Aladdin Middle East to Sign Drilling Contract in September 2008
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