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09/07/2004 -- World Energy Congress: LNG bringing new flexibility and options to energy markets
LNG provides the oil and natural gas industry with positive options, Didier Sire, Gaz de France vice-president of strategy, told the World Energy Congress Monday.
09/07/2004 -- US natural gas testing $5/MMbtu floor
Just when the North American natural gas market was in danger of becoming boring, it begins to test the consensus $5/MMbtu floor.
09/03/2004 -- Method proposed for calibrating MFL, Ut ILI tools
A new statistical method has been developed for calibrating magnetic-flux-leakage and ultrasonic in-line inspection tools from field verifications.
09/03/2004 -- Alliance formed for LNG technology advancement
Norway's Statoil ASA, Germany's Linde AG, and Aker Kvaerner of Lysaker, Norway, signed a 3-year collaboration agreement Aug. 25 to further develop cost-effective technology and solutions related to the ship-based production, storage, and discharging of LNG in remote areas.
09/02/2004 -- BBL awards Saipem North Sea pipeline contract
BBL Co. awarded ENI SPA's unit Saipem SPA, Milan, a contract to install 230 km of 36-in. natural gas pipeline across the North Sea from Callantsoog, Netherlands to Bacton, England and associated tie-ins and shore approach work.
09/02/2004 -- PetroChina awards Weatherford unit West-East pipeline precommissioning contract in China
PetroChina Co. Ltd., the domestic unit of China National Petroleum Corp. Ltd., awarded a contract to Weatherford International Ltd.'s Pipeline & Specialty Services (P&SS) unit for drying and precommissioning 500 km of the West-East natural gas pipeline in China.
08/27/2004 -- Camisea plants, pipelines start up
The Malvinas gas plant and export pipelines for Peru's Camisea natural gas project started up early last month with the plant sending out first gas to Lima.
08/26/2004 -- Moss Bluff fire out; repairs, investigation under way
The fire that burned for almost a week at Duke Energy Gas Transmission's Moss Bluff natural gas storage cavern No.1 in Liberty County, Tex., burned itself out at 9:15 p.m. Wednesday, and installation of a new valve assembly has begun. An investigation is under way into the cause of the initial explosion, and Caverns 2 and 3, which were undamaged, will remain closed until that information is known.
08/24/2004 -- Group develops new CNG concept for gas transport
Compressed Energy Technology (CETech) is developing a new concept for transporting compressed natural gas (CNG) from offshore fields to terminals on vessels equipped with large horizontal tubes carrying the gas under high pressure. The largest ships would be capable of loading as much as 20,000 tonnes of CNG.
08/24/2004 -- Aminex, LNGL sign MOU to develop, market African LNG
Aminex PLC, London, and Australia-based Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (LNGL) have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in natural gas exploration, development, liquefaction, and transportation projects in and off East Africa initially and possibly other African areas later.
08/20/2004 -- Vector announces open season for mainline expansion in 2006
Vector Pipeline LP Friday announced the launch of a nonbinding open season for a 2006 mainline expansion project for the natural gas transmission pipeline.
08/20/2004 -- Apache, Morgan Stanley buying Anadarko's GOM shelf properties, royalty interest
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. agreed to sell its Gulf of Mexico shelf properties through two transactions totaling $1.312 billion. Apache Corp. is paying $537 million for properties and Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. is paying $775 million for an overriding royalty interest.
08/20/2004 -- Second Moss Bluff explosion accesses 6 bcf of gas in cavern, feeds larger fire
About 6 bcf of natural gas stored in Cavern No.1 at the Moss Bluff salt cavern natural gas storage facility near Houston is now feeding a fire that has been burning since 4 a.m. Thursday following an explosion at the site (OGJ Online, Aug. 19, 2004).
08/19/2004 -- Explosion, fire rock Duke Energy's Texas gas storage facility
The cause of an explosion early Thursday at Duke Energy Corp.'s Moss Bluff salt cavern natural gas storage facility in Liberty County, Tex., is under investigation. The Charlotte, NC-based Duke reported that there were no injuries, but a fire in aboveground infrastructure continued to burn throughout the day.
08/19/2004 -- Causes sought for deadly Belgium pipeline explosion
An investigation is continuing into the cause of a pipeline leak that led to the disastrous natural gas pipeline explosion in southwestern Belgium July 31 that killed at least 16 persons and injured 115 or more. The chain of explosions occurred at the Ghislenghien industrial site near the French border 20 miles southeast of Brussels.
08/17/2004 -- Brazil Supreme Court overturns ruling that challenged 6th oil, gas licensing round
The president of Brazil's Supreme Court Nelson Jobim Tuesday overturned an injunction issued late Monday by fellow Supreme Court Justice Ayres Britto that suspended concession holders' rights to the oil they find in licensed exploration blocks.
08/17/2004 -- DKRW purchases land for Sonora, Mex., LNG terminal
Houston-based DKRW Energy LLC's subsidiary Sonora Pacific Mexico has purchased from the state of Sonora, Mex., 1,500 acres of property at Puerto Libertad on the Gulf of California for its planned 1.3 bcfd LNG regasification and storage terminal and pipelines (OGJ Online, May 26, 2004).
08/16/2004 -- Nabucco partners choose financial advisors for 5 billion euro pipeline
Vienna-based Nabucco Co. Pipeline Study GmbH has signed a letter engaging ABN Amro Bank NV, Amsterdam, as financial advisor for the proposed 5 billion euro Nabucco pipeline whose sponsors seek to build a 4,000 km natural gas pipeline to deliver as much as 25 billion cu m of gas to Europe from Iran and the Middle East and from Turkey and the Caspian region (OGJ Online, Jan. 28, 2004).
08/16/2004 -- GTI debates
It's up to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to decide, possibly this year, if industry should keep paying a government-mandated surcharge to fund natural gas research and development at the Gas Technology Institute.
08/13/2004 -- US construction plans slide; pipeline companies experience flat 2003, continue mergers
The US natural gas pipeline system appears headed for serious delivery-capacity contraints, if recent proposals are any indication.

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