New Oil and Gas Projects for July 09

 

New oil and gas projects are reported to the world market report subscribers.  Here are the project titles for the month of July ’09. 

 

 

OIL & GAS UPDATE

 

July 2009

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

OVERVIEW

Shell Chief, Jeroen van der Veer’s Editorial Calls for Regulatory Change

New Technology Revolutionizes Gas Pipeline Checks

Oil and Gas Sector Assoc Promotes Use of ISO International Standards

New ISO Standard to Promote Common Industry Approach for Gas Turbine Safety

Ultra Deepwater Semisubmersible Market Remains Buoyant

AMERICAS

U.S.

First Phase of Exxon’s Point Thomson at $1.3 Bln Good for Suppliers, Contractors

Technip Awarded Gulf of Mexico K2 Field Expansion Project Contract

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Modernizing Pump Stations by Switching over to New Equipment

BP Oil Tanker becomes World’s First Green Vessel at Port of Long Beach

Support for and Bickering over Alaska Pipeline Ongoing

California Law Linking Land Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Passes Court Test

Deepwater Rigs Boost National Oilwell Varco

TurboSonic Receives $4 Mln Order for New 'Green' VOC Technology

ONEOK Partners Sets Open Season for Texas Storage Facility

Tricor Seeks FERC's Go-Ahead to Construct U.S. National Gas Storage Hub

Tenaska Taps Fluor as EPC for $3.5 Bln Coal Fired Power Plant

TransCanada, ExxonMobil Join Forces on Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline while BP and ConocoPhillips Pursuing Denali Gas Pipeline Project

Bayou Announces $27.6 Mln Contract Connected to Fayetteville Express Pipeline Project

Helix Completes Thunder Hawk PLET Installation in Deepwater GOM

Schilling Robotics Awarded $2 Mln Contract for New Deep Sea Drilling and Coring System

Siemens Water Technologies Unveils New Filter for Offshore Oil and Gas Applications

High Pressure Equipment Co. Develops New Valve for up to 20,000 psi

Swagelok Introduces Medium-pressure Ball Valve

Multi-Chem Pinpoints Operating Costs with New Performance Program

Technip Awarded Princess Gas Lift Flowline Contract

Gulf of Mexico Oil Production Forecast to Reach Record High

Enterprise Products to Buy Teppco for $3.3 Bln

CANADA

Pembina Pipeline Completes $300 Mln Cutbank Complex Acquisition

ARGENTINA

New $249 Mln Pipeline to Connect South Argentina Fields with Main Gas Network

BARBADOS

Trinidad Eyes Gas Pipeline Extension of Tobago Line to Barbados

BRAZIL

Dril-Quip Awarded $180 Mln Contract for the Supply of Deepwater Subsea Wellhead

StatoilHydro Awards FMC $30 Mln Peregrino Surface Wellheads and Trees Contract

Flowserve Wins $18.4 Mln Pump Deal in Brazil

Oil States International, Uniao Engenharia Form Brazil Offshore JV

COLOMBIA

Pipeline Rupture Shuts down William’s Ignacio, Colombia Plant

New $530 Mln Pacific Rubiales Pipeline to Begin Operating in Colombia

ECUADOR

CB&I Awarded $50 Mln Contract in Ecuador by Flota Petrolera Ecuatoriana

URUGUAY

Uruguay's First Offshore Wells could be Drilled in 2011

ASIA

AUSTRALIA

Monster Maersk Oil Rig Heads for Geelong, Victoria for Refit

ZEEP Australia Joins Global Carbon Capture & Storage Institute

Mustang Signs Collaboration Agreement to Pursue Australian Coal Bed Methane Projects

CHINA

Sinopec to Lay Three 12-km Oil Products Pipelines in Jiangsu Province

CNPC Joint Venture Starts Pipe Operation in Northern China

CNPC to Build Large Product Oil Storage Tank in Guangdong Province

INDIA

Controversial Carbon Capture Possible Solution to Delhi's Badarpur Power Plant Emissions

BPCL Kochi Refinery to Commercialize New Gas Removal Technology

PAKISTAN / IRAN

Pakistan, Iran Sign Gas Pipeline Agreement without India

SOUTH KOREA

South Korea, Russia Eye Pipeline amid Tensions with North Korea

VIETNAM

LeTourneau Technologies Signs $40 Mln PetroVietnam Contract

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

NETHERLANDS

Twister BV Unveils New Gas Processing Valve

NORWAY

Aker Solutions Signs Subsea EPC Contract for DONG E&P Norge

Energid Technologies to Control Innovative Drilling Robots for Seabed Rig

MacGREGOR Launches New Deepwater Lifting System

SWEDEN

Swedish Independent Lundin to Sell Stake in NOGAT for $12.6 Mln

TURKEY

UK Based Heritage Oil Buying Turkey's Genel Enerji for $2.7 Bln

Honeywell to Install Fire & Gas Detection System at BTC Pipeline Terminal in Ceyhan, Turkey

UNITED KINGDOM

Foster Wheeler Consortium Snags Pre-FEED Contract for CO2 Capture Plant

Jacobs Engineering Secures FEED Contract for Centrica's Underground Gas Storage Facility

Castrol Installs Hydraulic DCV Test Rigs at UK Technology Center

ALGERIA

Saipem Secures $580 Mln Contract for GK3 Gas Pipeline System in Algeria

ABB Wins $223 Mln Oil and Gas Contract in Algeria

Algeria’s Sonatrach Awards $1.3 Bln Gas Installation Contracts

Algeria’s Sonatrach Awards SNC-Lavalin $1.1 Bln

Gas Contract

NIGERIA

Acergy Awarded $190 Mln Contract Offshore Nigeria

Nigeria’s DPR Proposes Sanctions against Gas Flare-Out Defaulters

Nigeria Tackles Oil and Gas Reform

Nigerian Militants Say Italian Agip Pipeline Destroyed

Russian President Medvedev Pursues Nigeria Pipeline Projects

KAZAKSTAN

KazMunayGas, ConocoPhillips and Mubadala Sign Project Agreements for Exploration and Development of N Block, Offshore Kazakhstan

ARMENIA

Iran funds $250 Mln in Loans for Armenian Pipeline

IRAN

Iran Inaugurates World’s Largest Gas Injection Project at $300 Mln

IRAQ

Iraq Oil Field Bidding Process on Schedule

As Iraq Stabilizes, China Aggressively Bids on Its Oil Fields

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

NPCC Selects AVEVA to Design UAE Gas Plant

ADMA-OPCO Awards $402 Mln Contract for UAE Integrated Gas Development

ABS Gives Preliminary Approval to UAE Offshore GTL Concept

 

 

 

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