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Pipelines
ShawCor signals $85M Pluto dealOct 10, 2007Canada-based Shawcor’s Bredero Shaw pipe-coating business has received an $85-million contract to get flow-assurance, anti-corrosion and concrete-weighting into the pipelines of Woodside’s Pluto project for liquefied natural gas, or LNG, in Western Australia.
Gorgon sub-sea wins Aussie okayOct 10, 2007The Australian government on Wednesday approved the Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell’s plans for the Gorgon Project on Barrow Island offshore northwest Australia.
Gazprom nod to final Shtokman partner imminentSep 18, 2007Gazprom offshore business Sevmorneftegaz will choose between a combined StatoilHydro and ConocoPhillips, or perhaps both, when the draw is made for a final partner for the giant Barents Sea gas field Shtokman.
Cairn pipeline, profit signal “transformation”Sep 11, 2007Cairn Energy has notched net profit of $1.5 billion after a slight loss a year ago, eclipsed by a near-$2 billion Cairn India listing and improving relations with authorities.
McDermott awarded pipelay contract in AzerbaijanSep 9, 2007McDermott Caspian Contractors, Inc. (McDermott), a subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott, S.A., was recently awarded a pipelay contract by the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR).
El Paso to float part of pipeline businessSep 3, 2007El Paso Corp. will float a 32 percent interest in its pipeline business, El Paso Pipeline Partners, on the New York Stock Exchange, it was learned Monday.
CATS cleared to move North Sea gas againAug 30, 2007The U.K. Central Area Transmission System, or CATs pipeline, will be restarted this week with normal flows expected by mid-September, oil company operator BP declared Thursday.
Technip gets $24M Gjoa okayAug 29, 2007Norwegian oil company Statoil has chosen Paris-based supplier contractor Technip to build and install the pipelines of the Gjoa field in the North Sea.
PetroChina plots pipeline, counts cut carbonAug 27, 2007PetroChina used the occasion of heralding record, first-half results to announce agreement on a route for Part II of its West-East Pipeline Project, with Horgas in Xinjiang as its start and Guangzhou and coastal Shanghai its two ends.
Technip to tackle Shell’s Cili PadiAug 23, 2007Paris-based offshore contractor Technip has won a Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysian state champion Petronas design in detail the topsides and underside of two unmanned platforms for the Cili Padi offshore gas field development.
Mexico sends troops to pipeline after blastsJul 12, 2007Mexican army and police have been reinforced after two pipeline blasts in a week proved to be the work of rebels partly protesting the narrow election win of the conservative federal government.
Statoil awards $515M in coatings contractsJul 6, 2007Statoil has has handed out five-year contracts for pipeline coating services worth NOK3 billion ($515 million) with Bredero, Socotherm and Eupec, the oil company heralded Friday.
BP closes CATS pipeline after anchor strikeJul 2, 2007BP has closed down the CATS gas pipeline network after a remotely operated vehicle on Sunday discovered damage caused by the dropping of a ship’s anchor onto pipe and concrete casing.
Silver Star updates MB Gas Pipeline progressJun 19, 2007Silver Star Energy, Inc. reports on the progress of pipeline construction and ultimate tie-in of gas wells at the MB Gas Project, located in the Manyberries area of Alberta, Canada.
WinGas secures $4B German landfall for Shtokman flowsJun 15, 2007Wintershall and Gazprom subsidiary WINGAS will build a $4 billion pipeline by 2015 to link up to Nord Stream, the pipeline being built under the Baltic Sea to help the Russian gas giant meet German demand.
AGR, GE sign $25M pipeline pactMay 29, 2007Norway-based oilfield services outfit AGR Group has penned a deal with to provide GE NOK150 million ($25 million) worth of its pipeline inspection tools.
Caspian oil to make for Europe via RussiaMay 14, 2007Russia has Turkmen and Kazakh agreement to build an oil pipeline through its territory for hydrocarbon riches from the Caspian Sea, it was widely reported at the weekend.
Eni confirms sabotage at two pipelines in NigeriaMay 9, 2007Eni confirms that Ogoda-Brass and Tebidaba-Brass pipelines have been sabotaged.
Imperial meets Mitvol in SiberiaApr 20, 2007Imperial Energy has had a “constructive” meeting with the Russian Environment Ministry’s supermajor nemesis Oleg Mitvol in Tomsk region, where the company recently built two pipelines.
Statoil, Gazprom in-step for Atlantic gas marketApr 19, 2007Statoil strategists believe Russian energy company Gazprom will move to create Shtokman infrastructure within seven years, building pipelines “from south to north” in tandem with Norwegian development. By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI
Technip to tango with Ursa, PrincessMar 28, 2007Technip will install water-injection flowlines and risers at the Ursa and Princess field developments in the Gulf of Mexico, the Paris-based oilfield services outfit declared Wednesday.
GAIL-RIL sign MoU for Joint Co-operationMar 19, 2007GAIL (India) Limited and Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in gas sector. The MoU was signed on 15th March 2007 by Mr. R K Goel, Director (Finance), GAIL and Mr. P M S Prasad, President and CEO, Petroleum, Reliance Industries Limited, in the presence of GAIL CMD, Dr. U D Choubey.
Forties Pipeline System Welcomes Buzzard CrudeJan 23, 2007BP announced that the first cargo of Forties blend containing crude from the Buzzard oil field has been exported from Hound Point terminal on the Firth of Forth.
Shell airs arctic oil, LNG plans for RussiaNov 8, 2007Royal Dutch Shell is piecing together the elements of a giant oil and gas project on the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Far North.
Tubing, construction giants gain Persian GulfFeb 15, 2007Saudi and Western European finance and manufacturing elites will jointly build a new seamless tube mill in Saudi Arabia from which to serve the oil and gas industry, OilGas24 learned Thursday. By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI
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