Oil Sands & Gas Shale UPDATE
January 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AMERICAS
U.S
Enbridge's ND System to Undergo a Further $145 Mln Expansion
Magnum Hunter Announces New JV Exploration Agreement with Stone Energy
Kinder Morgan to Build $130 Mln Texas Condensate Processing Facility
Crestwood Midstream to Construct $70 Mln Natural Gas Pipeline System in Marcellus Shale
Oil States Announces New Colorado Manufacturing Facility that will Benefit Canada and the U.S.
Cheniere Developing Corpus Christi LNG Project Supplied from Eagle Ford Reserves
Copano, Magellan Midstream Form Pipeline JV to Ship Eagle Ford Condensate to Corpus Christi
Spectra, AEP, Chesapeake to Link Texas Eastern to Ohio Shale Gas Supplies
Canada’s NEB Ok’s $180.1 Mln Bakken Pipeline Project
Rex Energy Announces Receipt of Bluestone Plant Permit and Other News
PA Power Plant to Convert Generators from Coal-fired to Gas
Penn Virginia Announces Eagle Ford Expansion
Chesapeake to Sell Gas Pipelines to Affiliate for $865 Mln
Ecosphere Energy Services, LLC and WACCAW, LLC Sign Two-Year Water Recycling Contract Extension in Woodford Shale
CANADA
British Columbia First Nations Group Pledge United Front against Oil Sands Projects
Quicksilver Resources and KKR Set up JV for Horn River Gas Plant
Japex Delays Investment Decision on Canada’s Hangingstone Oil-sands Expansion
SNC-Lavalin Wins Contract to Design 35,000 bpd MacKay Bitumen Processing Plant in Alberta
Toyo-Canada Awarded EDS Contract for Alberta Oil Sands Refinery Project
Enbridge Wins Contracts to Proceed With $1.9 Bln Gulf Coast Pipeline Project
GE Wants Dominant Role in Alberta's SAGD Oilsands Business
CANADA / U.S.
Nexen-Inpex Shale Gas Deal could Lead to Kitimat LNG Expansion
ARGENTINA
Canada’s Americas Petrogas Joins ExxonMobil in Argentina Shale Gas Venture
ASIA
CHINA
Shell Reported to Have Found Shale Gas in China
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
BULGARIA
Chevron May Start Drilling for Shale Gas in Bulgaria in 2015
ESTONIA
Eesti Energia Receives Permit to Mine for Oil Shale in Estonia
POLAND
Hutton Energy Awarded Two New Polish Shale Gas Concessions