INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

OVERVIEW

Statoil Considers Natural Gas to be Fuel of the Future

ThermoEnergy Signs Contract to Deploy Mobile Frack Water Production System

AMERICAS

U.S.

State Senate Panel Supports 'Fracking' Moratorium in California

NTSB Finds Fault with Enbridge in 2010 Michigan Pipeline Spill

U.S. Fines Enbridge $3.7 Mln for 2010 Michigan Oil Spill

Chesapeake Ordered to pay $100 Mln in Claims

Forest Oil Provides Eagle Ford Update and Announces Second Half of 2012 Capital and Drilling Program

Report says $163 Bln Currently Invested in U.S. Oil, Gas Projects

Mountainview Energy Closes On Williston Basin Properties for $12,579,000

Crestwood Midstream to Acquire Barnett Shale Assets for $90 Mln

Hess Has Up to $2 Bln in Asset Sales 'Well Under Way'

EQT Corp Converting Shale Gas Drilling Rigs to LNG

Report Says Marcellus Shale Growth a Positive for U.S. Midstream Companies

TransCanada Receives Final Permit for Gulf Coast Portion of Keystone XL

CANADA

Jacobs Wins Shell Canada Jackpine Tailings Contract

CB&I Announces Kearl Oil Sands $300 Mln Expansion Project Contract

China’s CNOOC Takeover of Canada’s Nexen for $15 Bln

CEMATRIX Announces $3.2 Mln of New Contracts

Suncor, Total May Not Proceed With New Oil-Sands Mines

British Columbia Lays Down Pipeline "Minimum Requirements" for Govt. And Enbridge

Nexen Takeover by CNOOC Raises Pipeline Issues

ASIA

AUSTRALIA

Senex Energy Contracts Weatherford Rig for Shale Gas Wells in Australia’s Cooper Basin

CHINA

Shell to Invest over $500 Mln in China on Shale, Tight Gas Play

Leyshon Resources to Acquire100% Interest in Pacific Asia Petroleum Shale Gas Assets in China

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

EUROPE

Success for EU Shale Gas Will Depend on Better Fracking Process

POLAND

Polish Shale Gas Search to Get $515 Mln from State Firms

ALGERIA

Algeria’s Sonatrach to Sign Partnerships with Shell, Exxon on Shale Gas

IRAN

Iran’s NIOC Conducting Study on Shale Oil

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