Subject:  New Oil and Gas Projects For April ‘08

 

New oil and gas projects are reported monthly to Cartridge Filters: World Market   http://www.mcilvainecompany.com//brochures/water.html#nO24 subscribers.  Here are the project titles for the month of April ‘08.

OIL AND GAS

UPDATE

 

April 2008

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

OVERVIEW

International Oil Groups Turn to Gas for Future Growth

Imtech Wins Several International Oil, Gas Sector Orders

ARCTIC

Arctic Oil & Gas Corp. Looks to Build Consortium to Develop Arctic Commons

AMERICAS

U.S.

New Mexico Wins Appeal on Oil and Gas Surface Waste Management

Natural Gas Partners Forms $4 Billion Fund for Oil and Gas Investments

Innova Adds to Rig Count and Takes Delivery of RD-10 Drilling Rig

Kinder Morgan Completes $500 Million in Terminal Expansions

Avalon Expands Oil Recovery Portfolio with BWPC Technology

U.S. Energy Companies Raise Output, Production

Colorado’s Pipeline Shortage Cuts Value of State's Output by 24 Percent

BHP Billiton Sends Crews Back to Neptune Gulf Platform

Exxon Leads Oil Companies in $1.3 Billion Plan to Fight for Point Thomson's Future

Toxic Leak at Greka Oil Pipeline Site in Santa Barbara County

Alaska to Decide On $26 Billion Pipeline Plan by August

MoBay Storage Holds Open Season for First Phase of AL Project

Gulf Coast Connector to Hold Open Season for Proposed LA Hub

Illinois Judge Denies Request to Halt Enbridge Pipeline Proceedings

CANADA

StatoilHydro Canada, Husky Energy and Petro-Canada to Share Drill Rig

Suncor Plans $20.6 Billion Oil Sands Expansion

Canada Emission Rules Target New Oil Sands Plants

TQM Shuts Down Cacouna-Levis Pipeline Project

CUBA

Cuban Oil Rigs 45 miles off South Florida a Future Possibility

MEXICO

Mexican Government Delays Burgos Hub Permit Decision

BRAZIL

J. Ray McDermott Wins Peregrino FPSO Order for Offshore Brazil

ASIA

CAMBODIA

Cambodia Expects Oil Production to Start in 2011

CHINA

$20 Billion Pipeline Fuels China’s Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas’ Development

GE Technology Selected for 1600 Klm Sinopec Gas Pipeline to Eastern China

Tethys Petroleum Ltd. Secures $5,300,000 in Rig Financing

China Selects Surveyors for Oil and Gas Strategic Regions

INDIA

India’s ICSA Eyes Big Revenues from Oil and Gas Projects

Quippo Oil to Invest $600 Million in Oil Rigs, Supply Vessels and Barges

Deep Industries Wins Contract for Work over Rig from GSPC

Leighton Int'l gets $60 Million Contract for Pipeline System in India

INDIA / BRAZIL

ONGC, Petrobras Sign Deal on Hydrocarbon Cooperation

INDONESIA

MALAYSIA

Bursa Malaysia to Set Up Oil and Gas Index

SUMATRA

Indonesia’s PGN to Build Gas Pipeline in North Sumatra

THAILAND

Chevron Announces Green Light for $3.1 Billion Gas Project in Thailand

VIETNAM

Essar to Invest $60 Million to Explore Oil and Gas in Vietnam

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

FRANCE

Mexican Government Delays Burgos Hub Permit Decision

GERMANY

Gazprom Signs MoU for Gas Turbine Power Station in Germany

HUNGARY

Hungary Gets Pipeline under South Stream Project

IRELAND

Irish Minister Awards Oil and Gas Exploration Licenses

ROMANIA

Austrian Energy gets Contract for Flue Gas Desulphurization Plant in Romania

UNITED KINGDOM

Japan's Marubeni Discovers North Sea Gas Field

Technip Awarded North Sea Oilfield Contract by Petrofac

Robotic Breakthrough Benefits UK Oil and Gas Sector

Centrica Proposes New Offshore UK Gas Storage Facility

AFRICA

China Finds Lucrative Market for Oil Equipment in Africa

EGYPT

Invensys Signs Egyptian Joint Venture with ENPPI and GASCO

Egypt to Sell Oil, Gas Exploration Licenses

KENYA

Building of LPG Units in Kenya Stalls as Partners Disagree

NIGERIA

Afren Signs Production Sharing Contracts for Two Licences in Nigeria’s Anambra Basin

Nigeria Lawmaker Appeals to President Yar'Adua on Ceded Oil Wells

Chevron to Develop Nigeria Offshore Usan Field

AZERBAIJAN

Rolls Royce Wins $75 Million Contract for Azeri Oil Project

RUSSIA

SAGA Oil ASA Acquires New Large $10.5 Million Oil & Gas Field in Russia

“Russian Technologies” to become Major Player in Oil and Gas Equipment Market

Technip to Design Shtokman Onshore Facilities

KAZAKSTAN

Khpw Plant to Supply 40,000 tonnes of Pipes for Kazakhstan

TURKMENISTAN

Turkmenistan Launches New Oil and Gas Wells on South Yoloten Field

BAHRAIN

Bahrain’s Bapco Signs Analytical Study Deal with ExxonMobil

IRAQ

Iraq Unlikely to Sign Major Oil Contracts until Summer

Iraq Opens Oil, Gas Fields for International Contracts

QATAR

McDermott Favorite for Barzan Offshore Deal

Qatar's Energy Minister Tells of Expansion Ambitions

Metso Receives Substantial Valve Order for Pearl GTL Qatar

SAUDI ARABIA

Siemens to Supply Produced Water Treatment System at Saudi Aramco’s Safaniya Plant

YEMEN

Yemen Prime Minister, Total Discuss $1 Billion, Three-year Exploration Plans

 

 

 

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