Oil & Gas UPDATE
September 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
OVERVIEW
Douglas-Westwood Predicts Subsea Vessel Demand to Grow $72 Bln or 52 Percent by 2015
SECC Unveils Next Generation Emergency Disconnect Solution for Subsea Market
University of Saskatchewan Researchers Develops New Tools for Carbon Storage
AMERICAS
U.S.
Sec. Clinton Confirms U.S. Will Decide on Keystone Pipeline by Year-End
Shell Considers Houma-To-Houston Pipeline Reversal to Provide Additional Distribution to U.S. GOM Refining Complex
NuStar, EOG Resources to Build Rail Offloading Facility in LA
Infrastructure Developments Expands CNG Business into Virginia
Federal Regulators Say $200 Mln Budgeted to Begin Environmental Review for Lower 48 LNG Pipeline
TransCanada Launches Open Season for Keystone Houston Lateral
TransCanada Launches Open Season for Cushing Marketlink Project
Leases Going Up for Pipelines on Public Lands in New Jersey
Under New Safety Guidelines PG&E Reduces Pressure on Pipeline after 'Anomalies' Found
Parnon Gathering to Build 18,000 bpd Oil Pipeline in Oklahoma
Vitol, Blueknight Energy to Build Oil Terminal in Midland, Texas
Babcock & Wilcox New Greenhouse Gas Tech to Get Test that Removes CO2 from Coal-fired Power Plant Emissions
Southern Union to Build $235 Mln Permian Basin Plant
Pipeline Regulatory Reforms Urged at CA State Hearing
SemGroup Spin-Off Rose Rock Resources to Own Cushing Storage Facility
EnerMech Gets Turnkey Shutdown Contract for Perenco A-1 Bacton Plant
Insituform Gets $5 Mln in Gulf Pipeline Contracts
Macro Sensors Becomes Approved LVDT Supplier for GE Gas Turbines
U.S. DOE Starts Construction of Illinois ICCS Facility
U.S. State Department to Allow Controversial $7 Bln TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline
Southern California Gas, Oberon to Build DME Demo Plant
Energy Capital Partners Reportedly Wants to Sell $2.3 Bln Illinois Coal-to-Gas Project
FERC Clears Williams Partners $217 Mln Transco Expansion
TVA Buys $436 Mln MS Magnolia Combined Cycle Gas Plant
Nebraska Governor Asks Feds to Deny TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Expansion Permit
Exxon Gets Replacement Pipeline Permit for the Yellowstone River
SE Texas County Lends Support to TransCanada Pipeline
NTSB Says More Than Half U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines Haven't Been Inspected Inside
Southwest Research Institute Wins another CO2 Compression Research Award for $9.9 Mln from DOE
West Hawk Energy Fined $940,000 for Abandoned Wells in Colorado
CANADA
Schilling Robotics and Gregg Marine Declare a New Subsea Drill Field Testing Successful
Enterprise, Energy Transfer Partners Terminate Cushing-Houston Pipeline JV
Scheduled Public EPA Hearings on Oil, Gas Emissions Rules in September
BRAZIL
National Oilwell Strikes $1.5 Bln Drillship Supply Deal with Brazilian Firm Estaleiro Atlantico Sul
DOF Subsea, Technip JV Wins Second Flexible Pipelay Contract from Petrobras
Petrobras Awards Excelerate Energy with Charter for World's Largest FSRU
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Caltex Australia to Triple Bitumen Storage Capacity in NSW
CHINA
Changfeng Unveils New Gas Pipeline Project in Mainland China
GE, China Huadian Create $100 Mln Aeroderivative Gas Turbines and Services Joint Venture
INDIA
India’s Reliance Industries Completes $7.2 Bln BP Deal
JAPAN
Tokyo Anticipates Building Natural Gas Power Plant
GE Energy Delivers Eleven Gas Turbine Power Generators to Japan
MALAYSIA
Aker Solutions Wins Murphy Oil’s Malaysia Kikeh Expansion Project
THAILAND
Ezra Holdings’s EMAS Wins Chevron Thailand Offshore Contract, Raises Orders to $600 Mln
SOUTH ASIA
Singapore’s Kreuz Holdings Gets $35 Mln South Asia Subsea Deal
VIETNAM
Intermoor Completes Vietnam Offshore Moorings Project
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
GERMANY
German Utility E.ON Plans to Break up Ruhrgas Unit, Sell Gas Grid Assets
ITALY
Apennine Energy Awarded Rapagnano Concession in Central Italy
NORWAY
Statoil to Invest $2.7 Bln in Aasgard Compression System
Statoil Confirms Major Oil Discovery in two Norwegian North Sea Fields
KBR Wins pre-FEED Contract with BP for Norwegian North Sea
Foster Wheeler to Design Karsto Plant Modifications
Norway Studies Development of Far North Gas Trunkline in Barents Sea
New University of Oslo Subsea Cooling System Raises Efficiency of Oil and Gas Processing
SPAIN
Total Sells its 48.83 Percent Interest in Spain’s CEPSA
UNITED KINGDOM
EnerMech is Awarded UK Perenco Bacton Plant Shutdown Project
Maersk Contracts TWMA to Recycle Gryphon Subsea Facilities
E.ON Ruhrgas UK Awards North Sea Contract to Offshore Design Engineering
Hyundai Heavy Contracts KBR for $4.8 Bln Engineering Design on BP's Quad 204 FPSO West of Shetland
Paradigm Develops System to Unblock Subsea Pipelines with Pressure Pulses
ALGERIA
JGC Awarded $400 Mln EPC Contract for Bir Seba Field in Algeria
GHANA
Ghana Secures $800 Mln Chinese Loan for Development of Gas Infrastructure
KENYA
Dominion Petroleum Awarded Deepwater Block L15 Offshore Kenya
NAMIBIA
Global Petroleum Acquires Jupiter Petroleum
KAZAKHSTAN
Tethys Petroleum Announces Opening of Kazakhstan Oil Production Facilities
KAZAKHSTAN / RUSSIA
Fluor Is Awarded Caspian 1,510 klm Pipeline Expansion Contract
IRAN
Blast and Massive Fire at Iranian 4,000 bpd Pipeline
IRAQ
Heritage Oil Commences Drilling of Miran West-3 Well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
LUKOIL Awards Iraq Contract to Baker Hughes
Saipem to Build $471.7 Mln Basra Crude Export Facility and Sub Sea Pipeline
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Multi-billion Dollar Chemicals Industrial City Planned for Abu Dhabi