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Friday, July 04, 2008
Iraq's state-owned North Oil Co has signed a preliminary agreement with Russia's Stroytransgaz for the repair of the Iraqi section of the 880-km Kirkuk-Banias oil pipeline. In 2007, Stroytransgaz received a contract to bring the Syrian section of the line back into working condition. The Kirkuk-Banias pipeline had a capacity of 300,000brl/d before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, but its original capacity when built in the 1950s was 1.4m brl/d.
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Friday, July 04, 2008
THE Oman Gas Co (OGC) has tendered two packages on its $150-$200m gas network expansion, linking the southern Nimr field with the port city of Salalah. Prequalified companies are currently entering bids for the two engineering, procurement, and construction packages. One tender covers the construction of the 150-km long pipeline between Nimr and Salalah; the second covers the upgrade of the control system at pressure reduction stations in Salalah.
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
A CONSORTIUM comprising Gazprom, Total, and Statoil Hydro has awarded J P Kenny Ltd, a subsidiary of the John Wood Group, a £ multi-million call-off contract for work on its strategic trunkline project to bring gas from the Shtokman field in the Barents Sea to Northern Russia. For the project, currently planned to be executed over several phases, JPK is providing front-end engineering design (FEED) and management of all activities associated with engineering the pipeline.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
WORK has begun on a $170-million gas pipeline that the Northern Territory Government says will create 300 new jobs during its construction. The 285-km long Bonaparte subsea gas pipeline is part of a project to bring gas from the Blacktip gasfield in the Timor Sea onshore to a processing plant near Wadeye.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
THE estimated project cost of the Nabucco gas pipeline has been raised to around $8 billion to reflect the impact of higher steel and crude oil prices, Nabucco Gaspipeline International GmbH said recently. The project's costs were previously estimated at around $5 billion in a 2005 feasibility study by the Nabucco consortium.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
EASTERN European leaders have agreed at a meeting in Ukraine to implement a Euro-Asian energy transport corridor as part of an extension to the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline. The presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine agreed at the energy summit in Kiev to take the necessary steps to expand the pipeline to create a Euro-Asian 'oil transportation corridor' (EAOTC) following plans proposed by KBR subsidiary Granherne at the Kiev meeting.
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Monday, June 30, 2008
SHELL is understood to still be in talks with Turkey's Calik Enerji and Italian firm ENI over the possibility of joining the Trans Anatolian Pipeline. consortium, which plans to construct a 1 million brl/d line from Turkey's Black Sea coast to its Mediterranean oil hub of Ceyhan to by-pass Turkey's crowded Bosporus Straits, Ms Canan Edipoglu the head of Shell's Turkish subsidiary said at the 11th Eurasia Economic Summit in Istanbul.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
THE Jammu and Kashmir Government is to sign an agreement with public sector GAIL India to set-up city gas distribution networks in eight districts. GAIL submitted a revised MoU to the state in March this year in connection with the project. The proposal has been now been studied by the state's law department, and certain modifications to the final draft have been proposed.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
US oil major Chevron has agreed with the Kazakhstan government to continue planning a new domestic oil pipeline that will form part of a $3-billion project to link Caspian oil deposits with international markets. Kazakhstan currently exports most of its oil through Russia, but is understood recently to have caused concern to the Russian government by announcing plans to build more pipelines and diversify exports toward Western Europe.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
SE CHINA'S coastal city of Xiamen is planning a subsea pipeline to transport refined oil from the mainland to Xiamen Island. The city's economic development bureau says that the line is currently under construction and will be complete by the end of 2008 in order to provide Xiamen, comprised of a number of islands, with a more secure supply route for refined oil from mainland.
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