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12/29/2004 -- Shell's Hazira LNG terminal to miss commissioning deadline
Contractor-generated delays have caused Royal Dutch/Shell Group subsidiary Hazira LNG Private Ltd. to miss commissioning the $680 million LNG receiving terminal at Hazira in Gujarat state by the yearend 2004 deadline.
12/28/2004 -- Petro-Canada unveils DeRuyter field development plans
Petro-Canada Netherlands BV has tapped Advanced Production & Loading AS (APL) to supply APL's single anchor loading system for use in mooring shuttle tankers to the De Ruyter field platform in the Dutch North Sea and for transferring oil to the tankers for export. The platform will be comprised of a steel gravity storage base supporting an integrated production deck, with oil offloaded directly to the tankers.
12/22/2004 -- FERC approves Sabine Pass LNG terminal
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved construction of the 2.6 bcfd LNG regasification terminal proposed in Cameron Parish, La., by Sabine Pass LNG LP, a unit of Cheniere Energy Inc., Houston. FERC also approved construction of a 26-mile pipeline connecting the LNG terminal to an existing gas pipeline.
12/22/2004 -- Technip, Chiyoda to build Qatargas LNG trains
Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. Ltd. II (Qatargas II) has awarded a $4 billion contract to a joint venture of Technip SA and Chiyoda Corp. to perform engineering and construction of Trains 4 and 5 at the Qatargas LNG liquefaction plant in Ras Laffan, Qatar.
12/21/2004 -- Sandia assesses hazards of LNG transport
In an assessment of LNG mishaps over water for the US Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy, Sandia National Laboratories says that beyond about 750 m for small spills and 1,600 m for large spills, "the impacts on public safety should generally be low for most potential spills."
12/14/2004 -- Australia's first LNG shipment to China due mid-2006
Australia's first shipment of LNG to China will leave the North West Shelf Project's (NWSP) Burrup Peninsula liquefaction plant in Western Australia in mid-2006.
12/14/2004 -- Crosstex Energy plans 110-mile Barnett shale pipeline
Crosstex Energy LP, Dallas, has entered into throughput agreements with Fort Worth basin producers that support construction of a 110-mile, 24-in. pipeline to deliver natural gas from the Barnett shale area in North-Central Texas to major pipelines serving Texas, the Midwest, and the Eastern US.
12/13/2004 -- Storage seen as key to managing US gas supply, demand
As US imports of liquefied natural gas grow, storage will prove crucial to managing daily variability between supply and demand.
12/09/2004 -- Dominion completes Cove Point LNG terminal expansion, proposes another
Dominion, Richmond, Va., has completed the recommissioning and expansion of the Dominion Cove Point LNG import terminal in Maryland that it began in 2003 and has proposed another expansion.
12/08/2004 -- Florida Gas Transmission sets open season on expansion
Florida Gas Transmission Co. (FGT), Houston, has called an open season, requesting interest from shippers in securing capacity on the Phase VII capacity expansion of its Florida pipeline system.
12/07/2004 -- Sabotage disrupts oil pipeline supplying Iraqi power plant
Authorities have extinguished a fire that broke out in an oil pipeline supplying the Al-Musayyib power plant, south of Baghdad, as a result of sabotage.
12/07/2004 -- Petrobras unit publishes bid notice for 42 vessels
Transpetro, the transportation subsidiary of Brazil's state-owned oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), published a bid notice for a $1.9 billion international tender to build 42 vessels to transport crude oil, products, and LPG.
12/06/2004 -- Profits up sharply for tanker owners
Charter rates for oil tankers have hit historic highs around the globe, with Asian and European shippers reporting surges of income largely due to increased purchases of crude on the world's spot market.
11/29/2004 -- Clean-up continues on Delaware River following damaged tanker's oil spill
closed to commercial traffic Monday as clean-up efforts continue following the spill Friday of about 714 bbl of heavy crude oil that caused a 20-mile oil slick. The oil was being transported from Venezuela to a refinery at Paulsboro, NJ, operated by Citgo Petroleum Corp. subsidiary Citgo Asphalt Refining Co.
11/29/2004 -- Tyumenneftegaz building oil pipeline from Russia's Uvat area
TNK-BP subsidiary OAO Tyumenneftegaz (TNG) has begun construction of a 76.5 km crude oil pipeline to connect Kalchinskoye field in the Uvat region of Russia's Tyumen Oblast with the Demyanskaya system, according to Interfax news agency.
11/29/2004 -- Geomorphic approach vital to design of pipelines crossing mountain streams
Flood discharge and stream scour studies at pipeline mountain stream crossings alone cannot adequately protect a pipeline where other, more-hazardous processes are possible.
11/24/2004 -- Ex-Im Bank guarantees $930 million to support Qatar LNG plant
The US Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) approved a loan guarantee of as much as $930 million to support the export of US goods and services to Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. Ltd. II (Qatargas II) for construction of an LNG project and related offshore and onshore facilities in Qatar.
11/24/2004 -- El Paso Corp requests FERC approval for Seafarer Pipeline
El Paso Corp., Houston, is seeking a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission certificate by July 31, 2005, to construct and operate the 41-mile US portion of its proposed 128-mile, 26-in. Seafarer natural gas pipeline (OGJ Online, Mar. 26, 2002).
11/24/2004 -- Loews Corp. buying pipeline from Entergy-Koch
TGT Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of Loews Corp., New York, agreed to buy an 8,000-mile interstate natural gas pipeline system from Entergy-Koch LP for $1.136 billion.
11/22/2004 -- Chesapeake drilling for gas with focus on US Midcontinent
Chesapeake Energy Corp. Chairman and CEOAubrey K. McClendon "We were among the earliest companies to anticipate and believe in this new world of high oil and gas prices."

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