Oil Sands & Gas Shale UPDATE
October 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
AMERICAS
NORTH AMERICA
NGL Energy Partners to Expand Terminal Network with SemStream Deal
U.S.
Mariner West Open Season Successful for Sunoco Logistics
NuStar, Valero Plan South Texas Pipeline Projects to Three Rivers and Corpus Christie Refineries
Vaalco Energy Finalizes $5 Mln Bakken Farm-in Deal with Magellan Petroleum
Pennsylvania Court Ruling Casts Shale Gas Leases in Doubt
Exxon Mobil Acquires Drilling Leases in Ohio Utica Shale Area
Enbridge Revises Upward to $700 Mln Cleanup Cost of Michigan Oil Spill
Enbridge Suffers First Operating Loss in Five Years after 2010 Spills
Osum Selects Veolia Produced SAGD Water Treatment for Alberta Taiga Project at Cold Lake
Alberta Wants more Pipelines in Addition to Keystone XL
GE SAGD Technology to Help Algar Lake Project Recycle up to 97 Percent of Produced Water
Ridgeline Energy Services to Install MDL at Manitoba Hydraulic Fracturing Well Site
Oil Sands Operators Turning to Electricity to Heat and Thin Bitumen Reserves
Grizzly Oil Sands Awards $4 Mln Algar Lake Order to Rockwell Automation
Ceramic Sand Mix Boosts Bakken Hydraulic Fracturing Expenses
GAIL India Acquires Stake in Carrizo's Eagle Ford Shale Gas Assets for $95 Mln
Bullish Projections Released on Impact of Utica Shale
Shell Oil Cracker Plant Eyed by Ohio for Utica Shale
Anadarko Obtains Drilling Permits For Well In Utica Shale
Enterprise, Enbridge, Anadarko Plan 580 Mile Texas NGL Pipeline
U.S. / ROMANIA / RUSSIA
Russia’s TMK May Spend $3 Bln on Pipe Production in U.S., Romania and Russia
CANADA
Suncor Awards Jacobs Firebag Contract for Fort McMurray Stage Three In-situ Oil Sands Project
Mariner West Open Season Successful for Sunoco Logistics
NuStar, Valero Plan South Texas Pipeline Projects to Three Rivers and Corpus Christie Refineries
Vaalco Energy Finalizes $5 Mln Bakken Farm-in Deal with Magellan Petroleum
Saipem to Build Secondary Horizon Oil Sands Upgrader
Babcock & Wilcox Canada to Supply Four Modular Boilers for Kearl Project
India’s Reliance Eyeing Canadian Shale Gas Assets
CANADA / U.S.
Feds Casting Doubts over Accident Risks on Keystone XL Pipeline Expansion
ASIA
CHINA
PetroChina to Commence Commercial Shale Production By 2015
EUROPE
POLAND
Poland’s Baltic Shale Gas Evaluation Moving Ahead
Polish Shale Gas could be Commercialized Starting in 2014
Poland's Shale Gas Becomes a Dilemma for Europe
ExxonMobil to Start Second Shale Gas Test Well in Poland
UKRAINE
Ukraine May Sign $1Bln in Shale Gas Contracts with Western Firms