Subject: New Oil and Gas Projects For March ‘08
New oil and gas projects are reported monthly to Liquid Filtration & Media World Markets, http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#n006 subscribers. Here are the project titles for the month of March ‘08.
OIL AND GAS
UPDATE
March 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Action Needed to Avoid Oil Crisis, Hess Chief Says
Hercules Onshore Announces $320 Million Purchase of Drilling Rigs Package from Transocean
Oil States Acquires Facility along Houston Ship Channel for Subsea Production and Rig Demand
Oil Rigs Will Be Used to Measure Weather
Deep Down Announces $2 Million in Contracts for Innovative Solutions
Booming Oil Industry Equipment Sales Put Companies like Sentry International on Fast Track
Rowan to Resume Ultra Deep Gas Drilling Programs in Gulf of Mexico
Shaw Group Awards McDermott with $150 Million Power Plant Pact
SEC Urged to View Oilsands as Part of Reserves
MS-800 Fullbore Subsea Wellhead System Introduced by Vetco Grey
Isramco will Pay $102 Million for Oil, Gas Properties
Dominion East Ohio Proposal for 20 Percent Pipeline Replacement Program to Exceed $2.6 Billion
Colorado Weld County Officials Discuss Oil and Gas Regulation Rewrite
Petrobras & Pemex Consider Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Project
Explosion, Fire from HESCO South Texas Pipeline Explosion
AIG Fund to Sell $1.5 Billion Stake in InterGen
Delayed Start to Port au Port Peninsula Oil Exploration
NEB Approves $2 Billion Alberta Clipper Pipeline Expansion
Connacher Oil and Gas and Alberta Oilsands Complete Pooling of Oil Sands Acreage
Aecon Gets $25 Million Fabrication Contract for Shell Oilsands Project
Ottawa Lobbies U.S. to Let New Law bypass Oilsands
Franklin Oil & Gas, Bolivia S.A. to Provide Rigs to Bolivian Operator
Petrobras Orders High Seas Oil Platform Costing $1.2 Billion
Jamaica and Colombia to Negotiate Oil, Gas Exploration
Skanska Contracted to Build $74 Million Puerto Rico Gas Pipeline
Venezuela to Pay Eni $700 Million for Oil Project
Valve Maker Maric Control Expands Export Market to Oil Rigs and Beyond
PetroChina to Begin Work on West-East Pipeline
Xinjiang's Oil and Gas Output Highest in China
Turkey Offers Alternative to Iran Pipeline for India
21 Oil & Gas Operators to Pool Services and Equipment to Slash Costs in India
Reliance Industries, India’s Petroleum Ministry at Odds over New Guidelines
India's ONGC Makes Four-Oil, Gas Discoveries
India Cabinet Team Clears $800 Million Pipeline Cost Recovery Plan
Indonesia Orders First Wärtsilä GasCube Power Plants
Kuwait and Pakistan Companies to Invest $9.5 Million to Explore for Oil and Gas in Pakistan
Inpex to Boost Spending on Oil, Gas Drilling by 50 Percent
Seismic Data Points to Huge New Zealand Oil Strike
Siemens Eyeing More Deals with Thailand’s PTT
Neptune Marine Oil & Gas Signs MOU for $67 Million Drilling Rig
Jenbacher Gas Engines for Coca-Cola Bottling Plants to Launch Major Emissions Reduction Initiative
Hungary Pledges 'Active Support' for $15 Billion Nabucco Pipeline
Island Oil & Gas Considers Buying Marathon Assets Offshore Ireland
StatoilHydro, GE Oil & Gas Technology Partnership Deal
Italy’s Eni Makes New Natural Gas Find in North Sea
StatoilHydro Awards Aker Kvaerner Contract for Troll C Platform Modification
Norway Awards 52 Oil and Gas Production Licenses on Norwegian Shelf
Poland Invests $1 Billion in Iran Oil and Gas Projects
Russia, Serbia Sign $14.65 Billion Gas Pipeline Deal
Aker Kvaerner Awarded Subsea Contract from Spain’s Repsol
GE Turbines for Spanish Power Plant Extension to be in Operation by 2009
Siemens Secures Order for Combined-cycle Power Plant in The Netherlands
Total Awards North Sea Platforms Construction Contract to Fabricom
Netherlands Order for $474 Million Siemens Power Plant
U.S., Turkey, Iraq to Hold Energy Talks
KBR Awarded Contract to Provide Engineering, Procurement and Design Interface for Angola FPSO
Universal Announces LOI to Purchase Namibian Oil & Gas Assets
Nigeria’s Gas Suppliers Vow to Fight Vandals
Nigeria Reports $13 Billion Price Tag for Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline
Shell Completes Repairs on Nigerian Bonny Pipeline
$2.5 Million Nigerian Contract for Wood Group
Chevron, Partners to Develop Offshore Nigerian Usan Field
Foster Wheeler Wins EPC Contract for Pipeline Upgrade in Southern Africa
Syria Completes First Stage of Arab Gas Pipeline
Tunisia Awards $13 Million Oil Search Permits to Vietnam Firms
India to Seek Stake in Future Russian Oil and Gas Projects
Foster Wheeler Awarded Hydroprocessing Complex in Russia
Integra Group Establishes New Level of Oil and Gas Equipment Service
New Drilling Rigs to Replace a Worn-out Russian Fleet
Tatarstan Seeks Partners to Develop Heavy Oil
Iran to Sign $16 Billion Gas Deal with China
ONGC Registers for Iraq Oil Tenders
Larsen & Toubro Bags $421 Million Clean Fuel Project Contract in Kuwait
New Oil and Gas Reserves Found in Oman
Five Firms Bid for Qatar’s Barzan Gas Project after Extended Deadline
Saudi Aramco Tenders $200 Million, 300-Kilometer Subsea Karan Gas Pipeline Award
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