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12/30/2002 -- New year begins with oil market 'perfect storm'
Are oil markets approaching a "perfect storm" in terms of oil prices--where a sudden confluence of factors creates conditions for oil prices reaching levels that can be described only in the context of crisis?
12/23/2002 -- Thai police break up pipeline protest
About 1,000 baton-wielding Thai riot police charged some 2,000 opponents of the proposed Thai-Malay gas pipeline project Friday night to prevent the protestors from approaching a Haad Yai hotel.
12/23/2002 -- Nova Scotian independent likes eastern Canada prospects
Corridor Resources Inc. Pres. Norm Miller Partners are sparse, services, supplies, and even consultants aren't close at hand, and many technologies developed in the last decade have yet to be applied in Canada's Maritimes.
12/19/2002 -- Pipeline safety bill signed into law
US President George W. Bush signed into law an industry-supported pipeline safety bill that earlier passed Congress by a wide bipartisan margin.
12/17/2002 -- Tanker rates expected to increase in the near term
Upward pressure on crude oil tanker rates is expected to continue for the next 3-6 months due to uncertainties surrounding geopolitical events, said analysts at Poten & Partners Inc., New York.
12/17/2002 -- First gas flowing through Bass Strait Bream pipeline
BHP Billiton Ltd. and its joint venture partner Esso Australia Resources Pty. Ltd. reported the start-up of the newly constructed Bream natural gas pipeline in the Bass Strait.
12/16/2002 -- Oman LNG plans third LNG train, sells total Train 2 volumes
State-owned Oman LNG Co.'s (OLNG) third LNG train, which will have a production capacity of 3.3 million tonnes/year, is expected to begin production by first quarter 2006, increasing the Omani firm's output to about 10 million tonnes/year from the present 6.6 million tonnes/year.
12/13/2002 -- Olympic endorses proposed fuel pipeline settlement
An Olympic Pipe Line Co. official said a pending settlement with state and federal authorities ends most of the outstanding criminal, civil, and environmental cases surrounding a June 1999 fatal gasoline pipeline rupture near Bellingham, Wash.
12/10/2002 -- CAPP's Dielwart: Major challenge in meeting gas demand looms for Canadian producers
CAPP Chairman John P. DielwartCanadian producers face a major challenge to meet their share of growing North American demand for natural gas in the face of rising depletion rates.
12/09/2002 -- Marathon awards Celtic Sea pipeline contract to Technip
Marathon International Petroleum Ireland Ltd. has awarded a £7 million contract to Technip Offshore UK Ltd. to install a gathering pipeline from the Greensand development in the Celtic Sea off Ireland.
12/09/2002 -- Statoil acquires UK gas storage development rights
Statoil has acquired the development rights for an underground natural gas storage facility to be built at Aldbrough, near the Hornsea salt caverns on the east coast of England.
12/05/2002 -- Third development well slated for Camisea project
Argentine independent Pluspetrol SA, upstream operator in the Camisea natural gas project, expects to begin drilling its third development well in Block 88 within the next month.
12/03/2002 -- ChevronTexaco files for LNG deepwater port off Louisiana
ChevronTexaco applied to the US Coast Guard for a license to construct and operate a deepwater port off Louisiana at which it would site an LNG receiving terminal.
11/26/2002 -- INGAA's Terry Boss: Pipeline safety a primary concern
INGAA Senior Vice-Pres. Terry BossPipeline safety reauthorization legislation will help improve pipeline integrity, but it won't make a significant difference in preventing the kinds of sensational accidents caused by excavation.
11/25/2002 -- First Argentine gas flows to Uruguay through Southern Cross system
First natural gas from Argentina commenced flowing Nov. 8 through the $160 million Gaqsoducto Cruz del Sur (GCDS), or Southern Cross pipeline.
11/22/2002 -- FERC approves Duke Energy's Patriot project
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Wednesday authorized Duke Energy Gas Transmission to construct and operate the company's Patriot natural gas pipeline project.
11/22/2002 -- Guangdong LNG, NWS partners sign sales, purchase agreements
China's first LNG project got a boost when the North West Shelf (NWS) venture participants signed agreements with the Guangdong LNG project companies for the purchase and supply of LNG from the NWS.
11/21/2002 -- TEPPCO to expand northeastern US LPG pipeline
TEPPCO Partners LP plans to expand the capacity of its northeastern US LPG delivery system next year by more than 1 million bbl during peak winter months, the company reported.
11/21/2002 -- New sulfur specs will challenge US pipeline system
US oil pipelines may have difficulty adjusting operations to the new federal 15 ppm sulfur rule for ultralow-sulfur diesel, according to two experts making presentations to a workshop on the subject.
11/20/2002 -- Pluspetrol's Benito: Peru's future lies in natural gas
Pluspetrol Corp. Peru SA General Manager Norberto Benito"Districts or countries are not fiefdoms for engineers or geologists. Times are changing. We want to integrate our people into a culture now."

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