908 New Oil and Gas Projects For Sept. 08

New Oil and Gas Projects For Sept. ‘08

New oil and gas projects are reported monthly to Thermal/Catalytic World Air Pollution Markets http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#n007 subscribers. Here are the project titles for the month of Sept.‘08.

OIL AND GAS

UPDATE

September 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

Steel Piping for Gas Wells in Short Supply

90 Billion Barrels of Oil and 1,670 Trillion Cubic Feet of Natural Gas Assessed in the Arctic

U.S.

United States Oil and Gas Files Patent Pending for a Simple Fiber-Optic Seismometer

Dresser-Rand to Acquire Arrow Industries and Completes Acquisition of Enginuity LLC Assets

Solar Power Helps Protect Puget Sound Energy's Natural Gas System

Enterprise Announces JV Texas Offshore Oil Port, Pipeline System

Oil Purification Systems and Felderhoff Brothers Drilling Develop New Fluid Cleaning Technology

Tres Palacios Gas Storage Gets Green Light from FERC

John Crane and Siemens Announce Gas Seal Agreement

Canada’s Precision Drilling to Buy Grey Wolf for $2 Billion

Enterprise Announces North Texas Pipeline Expansion

Oil Industry Tallies up Damage from Gustav

Rowan Inks $160 Million Rig Deal with McMoRan

Chevron Plans Base Oil Plant at Pascagoula, MS

BP Awards $3.8 Billion Whiting Refinery Delayed Coker Contract to Foster Wheeler

Oil Industry Sums up Preliminary Damage from Gustav

Enbridge and BP Plan up to $2 Billion Pipeline Expansions to Get Canada Oil to Gulf

U.S. / CANADA

Vector Plans Open Season for Proposed Third Pipeline Expansion

U.S. Review Clears Pemex Pipeline on its Environmental Assessment

Siemens Gasification Technology Selected for 270 MW Canada Power Plant

Nexen Update on Canada’s Long Lake Project

Mexican Opposition Parties Submit Pemex Legislation

Bolivia to Pay Shell for Transredes Pipeline Stake

Petrobras Boosts Presence in Chilean Market

Pacific Rubiales and Ecopetrol Award $320 Million Contract for Colombia’s Rubiales Oil Pipeline

PetroSA Qualifies to Explore Venezuela Off-shore Gas

ASIA

PetroChina to Build 400,000 cbm Storage Tank in Changsha, Hunan Province

Indonesian $246 Million Combined-cycle Plant Contract for Alstom

At Least Twenty Oil, Gas Basins Found in E Indonesia

THAILAND / MALAYSIA

ASEAN Officials to Discuss Gas Pipeline Network Expansion

Vietnam’s Big Oil and Gas Potential, Signs Agreement with Qatar for US$1 Billion Joint Fund Investments

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

MISCELLANEOUS

Foster Wheeler Announces Several Projects

MISCELLANEOUS OIL AND GAS COMPANY NEWS

Berry Petroleum Co. agreed to acquire interest in East Texas natural gas production from a consortium of private sellers for $620 million.

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., Toronto, will buy Kappa Energy Holdings Ltd. of Colombia for $168 million.

Oklahoma City-based Quest Resources Corp. plans to buy private PetroEdge Resources LLC for $140 million, closing by mid-July

A Talisman Energy Inc. unit plans to invest as much as $125 million within 18 months to earn working interest in properties owned by Hallwood Energy LP.

Australian power retailer Origin Energy Ltd., Sydney, has formally rejected the unsolicited $13.8 billion (Aus.) takeover bid from BG Group. (see August 2008 Oil and Gas Updates)

Dutch Energy Firm Nuon Announced a €476.7 Million Deal to Acquire the Norwegian North Sea Energy Assets of ConocoPhillips

InterOil, the CanadianC working in Papua New Guinea, Sold its Retention Leases in the Western Sector of the Country to Concentrate on its Potentially High Yielding Elk-Antelope Field in Eastern Papua New Guinea

OAO Gazprom Opened an Officei Algeria, Aimed at Developing Opportunities in Africa and in Particular with Sonatrach, The Nation's State Owned Oil Company.

Quicksilver is acquiring production, leaseholds, royalties, and midstream assets in Tarrant and Denton counties of Texas.

Eni, the Italian Major will Offer its Exclusive Slurry Technology to Convert Residues and Heavy Oils, Typical of those Produced in Brazil.

Subsea 7 Wins $100 Million Contract from StatoilHydro for Troll B Gas Injection Facilities

StatoilHydro's Lund Announces Oil and Gas Production Outlook and Recent Discovery

Aker Solutions wins $240 Million Order from Sevan Marine

Det Norske Veritas, Partners Developing CO₂ Pipeline Standard

Poland Plans 800MW Gas-Fired Plant with Germany’s RWE

SCANDANAVIA

Gassco Awards Contracts to IKM Gruppen for Skanled Pipeline System

U.S. Firms Find Doing Business with Libya Intimidating despite Better Relations

Bloodless Coup Threatens Mauritania's Oil, Gas Industry

Shell Says, No Real Progress Fixing Nigeria Trunkline

Militants Destroy Gas Pipeline in Nigeria’s Rivers State

BP Says Testing Begins on BTC Pipeline through Georgia Ahead of Full Restart

VP Cheney Looking to Secure Energy Links in Azerbaijan

EU Sanctions against Russia as Key Fuel Furnisher in the Pipeline in Question

Russia Eyes New Energy Markets Causing Consternaion within the EU

IRAN

Fifteen Countries Eager to Invest in Iran’s Oil and Gas Sector

IRAQ

CNPC to Develop Ahdab Oil Field in Iraq

Iraq Expects to Gross $55 Billion in China Oil Deal

New Amiad AMF Self-Cleaning Microfiber Filter Ideal for Oil and Gas Production

Zion Oil & Gas and Aladdin Middle East to Sign Drilling Contract in September 2008

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