Oil & Gas UPDATE
July 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.E.A. Says World Will Increasingly Turn to Americas for Oil
SES, Midas Form Coal Gasification JV
Oxford Catalysts to Participate in GTL Engineering Study
Sable NGL to Acquire, Operate $185 Mln Bakken Plant, Pipeline
EPA’s First Carbon Rules Costing Little but Gaining Little
LyondellBasell to Buy Olefins Pipeline System from Equistar
NPRA Urges Further Keystone XL Progress
CenterPoint Launches Open Season for Thunder Pipeline Capacity
State Report Suggests Link between Sewer Work and PG&E San Bruno Blast “most likely”
DCP, WTLPG Reach Sandhills Pipeline Gathering Deal
California Regulators Order Tests for Aging Gas Lines
Penn Virginia Acquires “Antelope Hills" for $11.44 Mln to Expand Texas Panhandle Assets
Southern Alabama Company Power Plant CCS Project Begins Ops
Shell Announces Multi-billion Dollar Investment to Develop Cardamom Discovery in the Gulf of Mexico
ExxonMobil Announces Three Discoveries in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
Energy Transfer, Regency Plan 530-mile NGL Texas Pipeline
Petrobras Cascade Development to Start Producing In Late 2011
U.S. House Panel Votes to Require TransCanada Pipeline Decision by November 1
Koch Pipeline Receives Final OK for Eagle Ford Pipeline
El Paso, Spectra Hold Open Season for Marcellus Ethane Pipeline System (MEPS)
Sunoco Logistics to Buy NJ Tank Farm, MA Terminal
Alliance Pipeline to Build Natural Gas Lateral in North Dakota
Hornbeck Offshore Official Comments on Drilling for the Future
Foster Wheeler Wins Sasol Contract to Study Canada GTL Project
Shell Secures $865 Mln Funding for Canadian Quest CCS Project
Shell Gets Green Light for Landmark CCS Project
GE Unit Gets $200 Mln Petrobras Contract
GE Provides Shell with $30 Mln Subsea Equipment Agreement
OSX Brazil Targets Petrobras Rig Orders after Construction License Win
Wood Group Receives $11 Mln Empresa Contract to Supply Parts to Peru Power Plant Gas Turbines
Venezuela PDVSA Signs $1.5 Bln Loan from Japan’s Mitsubishi and Itochu Corp
Clough Wins Construction Award at Australia STREICHER-Clough JV Macedon Project
FMC Technologies to Supply Subsea Systems for Shell's Prelude Project
Yanchang Petroleum, KBR to Form China VCC Technology JV
Converteam with PetroChina to Supply Drive Compressors for China’s WEPP Project
Kabul Transit Fee Rider Has Serious Implications for TAPI Gas Pipeline
Siemens Receives $100.1 Mln Order for Key Components for India Gujarat Gas-fired Power Plant
Bredero Shaw Wins Indonesia $60 Mln Pipe Coating Services Contract
Indonesia’s Pertamina to Build More Oil Storage Tanks to Help Hedge against Price Fluctuations
Petronas Carigali Awards Subsea 7, Engineering Program for the Kumang Project Offshore Malaysia
GE to Supply Three Frame 6FA Gas Turbines for Malaysia Power Project
Bechtel Wins Planning Contract for Mongolia Industrial Hub
Foreign Companies Interested in Philippines Natural Gas Projects
Go Ahead for Huge New Dutch Bergermeer Gas Storage Project
MAN Diesel to Bring Motor-Compressor Systems to The Netherlands
Subsea 7 Awards Dutch Pre-commissioning Contracts to EnerMech
Aker Solutions Buys Majority Stake in Benestad and Phaze Technologies
AGRI Pipeline Project Participants to Fund 1.2 to 4.5 Bln Euros Feasibility Study
Endeavour Energy Awards Technip Contract for UK North Sea Development
Colfax Corp Responds to Pipeline Challenge from French Oil Company Maurel et Prom
Burullus Gas Assigns $1 Bln Egypt Deepwater Installations to Saipem FDS
Hallin Marine Wins Subsea Pipeline Repair Contract Offshore Angola
Southern Sudan Plans Oil Pipeline through Ethiopia
Hess Discovers Deepwater Condensate off Ghana
Italy’s Eni Signs Exploration and Development MOU with PetroSA
Brody-Plotsk Pipeline Enviro Assessment Slated for Fall 2012 Completion
SOCAR Says Design, Survey for Azerbaijan Processing Complex May Take 2 Years and Cost $12-13 Bln
ANAS Geology Institute Says Seismic Activity Threatens Azerbaijan's Infrastructure
Kuwait Energy Signs 20-Year Two Contracts with Iraq
Iraq Signs $365 Mln Gas Pipeline Deal With Iran
MIS Kuwait Signs New $2.5 Mln Contracts with Weatherford Drilling
Hitachi to Supply Compressors and After-Services for Oil and Gas Plants in Saudi Arabia
ITT Signs Corporate Procurement Agreement with Saudi Aramco