02/17/2003
-- Snøhvit consortium approves Dragados for LNG plant construction Seven other Snøhvit field licensees approved Statoil ASA's recommendation of Dragados Offshore to construct the gas liquefaction process facilities associated with Snøhvit's development.
02/17/2003
-- ONGC announces new gas discovery off Mumbai India's government-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) found new oil and gas reserves west of its gigantic Vasai gas field off the Mumbai coast.
02/11/2003
-- ONGC seeks to be global oil and gas player ONGC ChairmanSubir Raha"Our thrust to procure more oil and gas equity at a global level was made possible by the deregulation of the oil sector in India last year. Now we have reached a stage where we cannot afford to stagnate; we either have to grow or fall by the wayside."
02/07/2003
-- Oman awards design engineering contract The Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) joint venture awarded Dutch engineering consultant Tebodin BV a 4-year contract to provide design-engineering services for PDO oil and gas developments.
02/07/2003
-- Anadarko, Sonatrach, and partners make Algerian oil discovery Anadarko Petroleum, Sonatrach, and partners Maersk Olie Algeriet AS and Italy's Lasmo Oil, reported an oil discovery at the Hassi Berkine North East prospect on Block 404 in Algeria's Berkine basin.
02/04/2003
-- Fluor, AMEC win engineering, project management for Kizomba B FPSO Hyundai Heavy Industries has awarded AMEC PLC and its partner, Fluor Corp., a contract to provide design, engineering, and project management services for ExxonMobil's Kizomba B floating FPSO.
01/29/2003
-- Murphy acquires additional acreage off Malaysia Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of El Dorado, Ark.-based Murphy Oil Corp., has signed two production sharing contracts with Malaysia's Petronas Carigali Sdn. Bhd.
01/28/2003
-- OGDCL strikes condensate, natural gas in the Southern Indus basin Oil & Gas Development Co. Ltd. (OGDCL), Islamabad, said its Chak 7A No. 1 well discovered condensate and natural gas, marking its ninth discovery since March 2001 in the Southern Indus basin.
01/28/2003
-- Petrotech prepares for Block Z-6 seismic off Peru US-financed PetroTech Peruana SA is holding two hearings for environmental impact studies in March before beginning a marine seismic survey of Block Z-6's Sechura basin off northern Peru.
01/24/2003
-- Norwegian North Sea Statoil ASA is selling its interests in two production licenses at the southern end of the Norwegian continental shelf to Paladin Resources Norge.
01/22/2003
-- Peru obtains loan for Camisea project Inter-American Development Bank signed a $5 million loan to the Peruvian government to help fund a $7.2 million project to strengthen state companies monitoring the Camisea natural gas project.
