Subject: New Oil and Gas Projects For July ‘07
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OIL & GAS UPDATE
July 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
OVERVIEW
Climate Change Forces Oil and Gas Companies to Face New Market Strategies
1. AMERICAS
U.S.
Indiana Awaiting Rockies Express Details for 622 Mile Gas Pipeline
Enbridge, ExxonMobil to Assess Midwest-Gulf Coast Oil Pipeline Project
Alyeska's $430 Mln Trans Alaska Pump Station Project Will Permit Lower Flows
Global Resource Corp. Unveils Gasification Technique to Unlock Resid Oil
Valero Said It Had Permission to Use Ohio Pipeline
Dominion Announces Storage Factory Project to Expand Capacity by 50 BCF
U.S. Oil Industry Prepares for 2007 Gulf Storm Season
CH2M Hill Acquires Alaskan Oil-Services Firm Veco for $463 Mln
DEP Says Gas Company Agrees to Cease Drilling, Pay Fine
U.S. EPA Pollution Permit Renewal for Cook Inlet Rigs Sparks Lawsuit
Study Concludes Mercury Content Lower in Crude Oil than Coal
USA Superior Energy Acquires 303-Acre Lease in Zavalla County, TX
BP Says 50 more Years of North Slope Oil, Gas Expected
Income from Grand Junction’s Roan Plateau Oil, Gas Leases Uncertain
Speeding Oil Production may be Best Route to North Slope Gas
Oil, Gas Industry Pumps $22.9 Bln Into Colorado
Senate Passes Energy Bill that raises Fuel Efficiency Standards
CANADA
Drilling Downturn Costing Alberta Oilfield Jobs
Silver Star Energy Updates MB Gas Pipeline Progress at Manyberries Project, Alberta
Aspen Exploration Successfully Tests Natural Gas Well at West Grimes, Colusa County, CA
BRAZIL
Industrial Nanotech's Role in Brazilian Pipeline Project Expands
Brazil Invests Heavily to Multiply Natural Gas Production by $18 Bln
Milton Roy Europe Delivers major FPSO Contract to Brazil
CHILE
Layne Christensen’s Energy Division Announces Contract Signing Of Chilean CBM Project
LATIN AMERICA
World Bank asks Oil Producing Countries in Latin America to Join Plan to Reduce Gas Burning
TRINIDAD
Fluor-Led Consortium to Build Offshore Drilling & Gas Production Platform off Trinidad Coast
VENEZUELA
ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil to Defy Chavez, Quit $4.5 Bln Projects in Venezuela
2. ASIA
CHINA
China Overtakes U.S. as World's Biggest CO2 Emitter
Shanghai Starts Construction of Emergency LNG Terminal
SK Corp. Confirms Plan to Build Petrochemical Plant with Sinopec in Central China
INDIA
BHEL Bags Orders from IOC
UMW Holdings to set up Oil Tubular Pipe Plant in India
RIL Hunting for Exploration Partners in Technology and Equipment
Punj Lloyd to Foray into Drilling Rigs
ONGC Oil Explorers in a Tight Spot as Rigs Move to UK, Mexico
JAPAN
Japan’s Mitsui, Marubeni to Merge LPG Operations
KOREA
South Korea Confirms Gas Hydrate Deposits but needs Technology to Develop It
SINGAPORE
Keppel FELS Ltd Secures Order for Semisubmersible Drilling Rig from Ensco International
THAILAND
Adani Wins Oil & Gas Block in Thailand
VIETNAM
PetroVietnam Inks $57.7 Mln Production Contract
PetroVietnam’s Crude Oil Output fails to come up to Expectations
J. Ray McDermott Awarded Pipeline Project in Vietnam
3. EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
EUROPE
Wingas, Gazprom-BASF JV to Invest in European Gas Projects
ITALY
Austrian Village Delays Eni Upgrade of TAG Pipeline
MACEDONIA
Emerson Installs Daniel® Gas Metering System to Upgrade Macedonia Metering Station 2 NORWAY
Statoil makes Promising North Sea Oil Discovery
Statoil Establishing an Effective Oil and Gas Industry in Norway’s Far North Poland’s PGNiG says Norway Pipeline Work Imminent
NORWAY / NORTH SEA
SKF and Aker Kvaerner sign Partnership for Condition Based Maintenance in Oil and Gas
POLAND
Polish Companies Prospecting for Oil and Gas
UNITED KINGDOM
Siemens Supplies High-speed Direct Drive for Gas Compressor in the UK
EGYPT
Sino-Egyptian $30 Mln Joint Oil Rigs Plant Set up in Egypt
First Investment for Dana Gas Bahraini Acquisition to be Gulf of Suez Gas to Liquids Plant in Egypt
GHANA / WEST AFRICA
Anadarko Announces Oil Discovery Offshore Ghana
LIBYA
BP Committed to Spend $900 Mln on Oil, Gas Exploration with Libya
NIGERIA
Shell Says Security Issues Delay Plans to End Gas Flaring in Nigeria
SOUTH AFRICA
Eskom Studies 2 100 MW Combined-cycle Plant at Majuba
TANZANIA
Aminex Drilling Rig’s Arrival at Nyuni, Tanzania to be Delayed
RUSSIA
Moscow Considers $92.1 Bln Investment in Eastern Russia’s Gas Sector
LukOil Secures $300 Mln Loan for Environmental Program
Eni, Gazprom Sign Deal to Study “Multi-Billion” Dollar Gas Pipeline from Russia to Bulgaria
RUSSIA / SIBERIA
KCA DEUTAG's HR-5000 Rigs Commence Drilling in Russia for TNK-BP
RUSSIA / UK
TNK-BP to spend $1 Bln over Five Years on Associated Gas Processing
UKRAINE
Development of Two New Gas Fields under way in Western Ukraine
ISRAEL
Ben-Eliezer Awards Licenses to Accelerate Oil and Gas Exploration in Israel
QATAR
Wood Group Opens Service Facility in Qatar
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Aramco Envisions Technological Frontier Push
UAE
Rotork Orders for Gas Developments in the UAE
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
OVERVIEW
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