Subject: New Oil and Gas Projects For August ‘07
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subscribers. Here are the project titles for the month of August ’07.
OIL & GAS
UPDATE
August 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS
IEA Warns of Impending Oil-Gas Shortage
Oil and Gas Companies Face Upheaval from Climate change Challenge
Curtiss-Wright Acquires VSC for $75 Million
Colorado Oil, Gas Commission Seeks Source of Petroglyph Inc. Methane Leak
Atlas Copco Acquires Mafi-Trench, Expands in Oil and Gas Markets
Peabody, ConocoPhillips Mull Coal-to-Gas Plant
Record-Setting Independence Hub Project Starts Production in Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Smaller Oil and Gas Fields & Lower Costs Lead to a Pumps Boom on Ocean Floor
Drillship Shortage Causing Delays at Jack Oil Field
EPiC Energy Forms Subsidiary to Acquire Oil and Gas Producing Properties
Offshore Driller, Transocean to Buy GlobalSantaFe for $18 Billion
Fluor Wins $12 Million Contract
Avalon Oil & Gas Announces Update on Grant Parish, Louisiana Leasehold
Canada Tightens Grip on Disputed Arctic Oil and Gas Reserves
PetroChina Pulls out of $3.8 Billion Canadian Oil Sands Pipeline Project
Statoil Completes Acquisition of $2 Billion North American Oil Sands
Emerson Process Mgmt Awarded Contract for $2.6 Billion Oil Sands Upgrade
Technip Awarded Services Contract for Canada Fort Hills Oil Sands Project
New Northwest Pipeline Proposed Connecting Bradwood LNG to Canadian Line
Laurentian Energy Unveils Parts of Oil Rigs in $4.2 Million Contract
Allis-Chalmers to Supply Additional Rigs in Argentina
Aker Kvaerner Commissions of Sulfate Removal Units Offshore Brazil
Siemens Wins Brazilian Compressor Train Contracts
Cameron Receives $110 Million Contract for Subsea Systems on Pyrenees Project Offshore Australia
China National, Reliance Win Australia Drill Permits
Oil Giants Mark Western Australia Northwest Coast as Growth Area
BHP Petroleum Poised for Growth
General Electric Opens Cambodian Branch Office with Eye on Oil and Gas Sector
China’s CNPC 10 Million Ton Refinery Project to be Operational in 2008
Reliance Industries Confirms Discovery off East Coast of India
India Tightens Oil, Gas Discovery Disclosure Norms
Personally Funded Oil Projects in India on Course, says Mittal
India, Colombia Add Most Number of Rigs in June
Indonesia, South Korea to Sign Mining, Oil and Gas Deals worth $8.5 Billion
Malaysia Government-led Consortium to Drill Oil off Antique
New Zealand to Announce Permits for Massive Oil and Gas Exploration
Singapore's Oil, Gas and Marine Trades Continue to Grow by 36 percent
Keppel Corp wins 2 Rig Contracts worth $534 Million
Oil and Gas Concessions in Gulf of Thailand to Win 10-year Extensions
3. EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
Island's Schull Well Encounters Gas
European Governments Sign New Pipeline Energy Deal Due to Benefit Italy
Technip Awarded Contract for the Yme Field Re-Development Project in Norway
Best Oil and Gas Sites Located by Norwegian Coastal Administration
Spain's FCC, Saipem Win Balearic Pipeline Order
BP Invests in Gas Compression Facilities in Southern North Sea
BP Says CATS Pipeline Needs Permanent Repair
Algeria to Pump $20 Billion into Oil, Gas Sectors
Shaw Awarded Front End Engineering and Design Contract for Sonatrach LPG Recovery Facility
Kenya Pipeline Company Project on Course, Say Contractors
Brazilian HRT and Petroleum President says Namibia Has Potential in Oil and Gas Production
Addax Petroleum Strikes Oil, Gas Offshore Nigeria
Saipem Wins $210 Million Contract for Onshore Nigeria Pipeline
An Update on Nigeria’s Oil, Gas and Pipeline Development
Oklahoma Firm Signs $313 Million Oil Rig Contract with Tanzania
Total and Gazprom Sign Shtokman Framework Deal
Russian Regulator Suspends Sakhalin II Pipeline over Building Violations
Russians Reach North Pole in Race for Arctic Oil and Gas
Russia, Denmark and Canada, all Seek to Claim Arctic Seabed
Imperial Oil Continues $245 Million Drilling Program in Russia
BASF's Wintershall in talks to Develop Caspian Oil and Gas Fields
SOCAR Arm, Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation Ink a Deal
China National, Reliance Win Australia Drill Permits
Iran Upsets India’s Oil, Gas Plans
New Snag in the Iran-Pakistan-India Pipeline
McDermott Awarded Pipeline Contract by Qatargas 3 and 4
Saudi Aramco Contract to Jacobs Engineering for 900tpd Sulfur Recovery Unit
CB&I Wins $130 Million Projects in Yemen, Saudi Arabia
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