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11/07/2003 -- Simulation reveals conditions for onshore arctic gas-condensate pipeline
Simulation of a long distance, large-diameter multiphase pipeline through onshore artic conditions evaluated the effects of steady-state and transient conditions.
11/05/2003 -- Pakistan nixes Iran-India pipeline; plans Iran-Pakistan line
Pakistan Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Chaudhry Nauraiz Shakoor has confirmed that the previously proposed gas pipeline from Iran to India, via Pakistan, had been shelved, but Tehran has agreed to export natural gas to Pakistan.
11/05/2003 -- Quick US energy bill passage needed for timing of Alaska-Alberta gas pipeline
Getting quick passage of the energy legislation now before the US Senate is critical to the planned timeline for an Alaska-Alberta natural gas pipeline.
11/05/2003 -- Crystal Energy taps OPE for LNG off-loading hub conceptual engineering
Crystal Energy LLC, a division of Houston-based Small Ventures USA LLC, has selected OPE Inc., Houston, to perform conceptual engineering for a proposed $125 million LNG off-loading hub in the Santa Barbara Channel off California.
11/04/2003 -- Fierce opposition seen for Offshore California LNG terminals
A second proposal to develop an LNG import terminal off Ventura County, Calif., has emerged, and both projects face a uphill battle against fierce local opposition.
10/29/2003 -- Pemex awards Global Industries Bay of Campeche pipeline installation
Pemex Exploration & Production Co. has given a letter of intent to Global Offshore Mexico S de RL de CV to install 29 km of 24-in. subsea pipeline from Enlace to Uech A in the Gulf of Mexico's Bay of Campeche. The contractor is a wholly owned unit of Carlyss, La.-based Global Industries Ltd.
10/27/2003 -- US gas supply, demand numbers in flux
With the onset of the winter heating season, there is flux in the numbers for US natural gas supply and demand. In the former instance, a clearer picture may emerge; in the latter, the view remains cloudy. In other words: Things are not always what they seem to be when it comes to the outlook for natural gas prices.
10/23/2003 -- RUSSIAN GAS TO EU MARKETS-Conclusion: Compromise is best course for Russia, EU in Protocol negotiations
When the energy ministers of European Union members met earlier this year, Turkey and Greece signed an agreement to build a 350-km gas pipeline to link the two countries.
10/22/2003 -- RJA: LNG is long-term solution but with its own problems
LNG is becoming a more popular topic regarding incremental energy needs, but it offers a long-term supply solution rather than a quick fix, said Raymond James & Associates Inc.
10/21/2003 -- BG orders three LNG carriers
BG Group has entered into an agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. of Korea to purchase three new-build LNG carriers.
10/21/2003 -- CERA: New global natural gas market emerging with LNG
A new global natural gas market is emerging, and LNG could fulfill up to 20% of US gas demand by 2020 compared with 1% in 2002, predicts Cambridge Energy Resource Associates of Cambridge, Mass.
10/20/2003 -- Interim Iraqi government unveils plans to halt oil smuggling
The interim Iraqi government, backed up by US and UK military forces, has announced plans to curb the smuggling of oil, including increased interdiction efforts along with public trials and heavy sentences for smugglers who are caught.
10/20/2003 -- Gas summit highlights need for safe gas supplies in EU liberalized market.
The "real" opening of the European Union's gas market will take place when the second gas directive comes into force in 8 months on July 1, 2004, targeting 530,000 industrial users. But the transitory period is fraught with uncertainties about the benefits to be expected from a liberalized market. Numerous doubts were voiced at the Eighth International Gas Summit in Paris Oct. 13-14, which covered issued related to the gas market opening process.
10/17/2003 -- RasGas charters two more LNG ships
RasLaffan Liquefied Natural Gas Co. Ltd. (II) (RasGas II) has chartered two more LNG carriers—each with a storage capacity of 145,000 cu m—bringing to five the number of long-term chartered vessels in the fleet it will use to deliver LNG from facilities at Ras Laffan Industrial City in Qatar. RasGas II said it will charter the vessels for 25 years.
10/17/2003 -- Sui Southern initiates second system rehabilitation program
Karachi-based natural gas utility Sui Southern Gas, which supplies gas to Sindh and Baluchistan provinces, Pakistan, reported that it has launched its second 5 year gas Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Expansion Project to increase its gas network capacity to 1,800 MMcfd from 1,200 MMcfd by 2007-08.
10/15/2003 -- Japan continues push for Nakhodka pipeline, Russian oil
Japan's Foreign Ministry has denied a Financial Times report published Tuesday that Tokyo offered to provide Russia with $7 billion to construct an oil pipeline from Angarsk in Siberia to Nakhodka on the Pacific Coast.
10/15/2003 -- MedGaz awards ultradeepwater Mediterranean pipeline FEED contract
The MedGaz consortium has awarded Intec Engineering (UK) Ltd., Woking, UK, a contract to perform front-end engineering design for the MedGaz pipeline project.
10/14/2003 -- BG inks long-term LNG sale agreement with Nigeria LNG
BG Group PLC unit BG LNG Services LLC (BGLS) reported Tuesday that it signed a 20-year sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Nigeria LNG Ltd. (NLNG) for the supply of 2.5 million tonnes/year of LNG into the LNG terminal at Lake Charles, La.
10/10/2003 -- RUSSIAN GAS TO EU MARKETS-1: Thorny issues impede progress toward final Transit Protocol
Negotiators from 51 European and Asian countries are trying to hammer out a legally binding Transit Protocol to the Energy Charter Treaty.
10/10/2003 -- Transparency test
The World Bank hopes that by tying transparency guidelines into its financing of the $3.7 billon Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project it will mean other resource-rich developing nations will follow Chad's example and accept public accountability standards.

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