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08/01/2005 -- Enbridge gets support for mainline expansion
Enbridge Energy Partners LP, Calgary, said a recently concluded open season indicated strong support from shippers for the addition of 400,000 b/d of crude oil capacity on its mainline system from Hardisty, Alta., to Chicago, Ill., as early as 2009.
07/28/2005 -- Gaz de France starts receiving Idku LNG
Gaz de France has taken delivery of its first consignment of Egyptian LNG at its Montoir de Bretagne gasification terminal in Brittany.
07/22/2005 -- TEPPCO Partners buys Houston area pipeline
TEPPCO Partners LP has acquired from Texas Genco LLC interests in companies that own a 90-mile products pipeline system and 5.8 million bbl of storage capacity in the Houston-Texas City, Tex., area.
07/22/2005 -- NEB leads investigation of pipeline leak
Canada's National Energy Board is leading an investigation of a July 15 crude oil leak from a Terasen Inc. pipeline near Abbotsford, BC.
07/19/2005 -- Canadian LNG projects spawn transport pacts
Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline has signed separate agreements with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Repsol YPF SA for transportation of natural gas from LNG terminals the companies are building or plan in Canada.
07/19/2005 -- Pipelines planned between Iraq and Iran
Iran plans to finance and build pipelines to supply neighboring Iraq with oil products and to enable Iraq to supply crude oil to Iran, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said July 18 in Tehran.
07/18/2005 -- Oil line starts up on Yemen's Block S-1
TransGlobe Energy Corp., Calgary, reported start-up of the Block S-1 oil pipeline in Yemen.
07/18/2005 -- South Korea signs long-term LNG contract
South Korea has signed a long-term LNG contract with three foreign suppliers.
07/18/2005 -- Hiroshima Gas to buy LNG from Petronas unit
Petronas subsidiary Malaysia LNG Sdn. Bhd. (MLNG) signed an agreement with Hiroshima Gas Co. Ltd. to supply as much as 82,000 tonnes of LNG to the Japanese company over 8 years.
07/15/2005 -- RasGas II receives third LNG carrier
Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Co. Ltd. II has received its third chartered LNG carrier, Lusai, at the port of Ras Laffan Industrial City in Qatar.
07/13/2005 -- Kogas, Vopak consider building LNG terminal in Asia
The International Projects Group of Korea Gas Corp. (Kogas) and Koninklijke Vopak NV subsidiary Vopak Asia Pte. Ltd. (Vopak) have signed an agreement aimed at construction of one or more LNG receiving terminals in Asia.
07/13/2005 -- Atasu-Alashankou pipeline 30% complete
Construction of the Atasu-Alashankou oil pipeline between Kazakhstan and China is 30% complete, according to Nurbol Sultanov, deputy general-director for development of Kazakhstan's KazTransOil.
07/08/2005 -- Papua New Guinea-Australia gas line proceeds
The proposed $5 billion (Aus.) Highlands natural gas pipeline from Papua New Guinea to Australia, has moved forward with the announcement that Australian Gas Light Co. (AGL) has agreed to purchase 1,500 petajoules of gas over 20 years, starting in 2009.
07/08/2005 -- Statoil laying CO₂ pipeline to Snøhvit field
Statoil ASA is laying a 151-km, 8-in. carbon dioxide injection pipeline from the Melkøya gas terminal in northern Norway to Snøhvit natural gas field in the Barents Sea.
07/08/2005 -- Holly group plans Wyoming-Utah oil pipeline
Holly Corp., its refining subsidiary Holly Energy Partners LLC, both of Dallas; and Enbridge Inc., Toronto, plan to lay a crude oil pipeline from the terminus of Enbridge's Frontier Pipeline at Evanston, Wyo., to Holly's 25,000 b/d Woods Cross refinery near Salt Lake City, Utah.
07/06/2005 -- Exmar charters LNG regasification vessel
Exmar NV confirmed a long-term charter with LNG shipper and marketer Excelerate Energy LP for another LNG regasification vessel.
07/06/2005 -- Southern Natural plans Cypress gas pipeline
Southern Natural Gas Co., a subsidiary of El Paso Corp., has applied to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for authorization to build the proposed Cypress natural gas pipeline from its Elba Island LNG terminal near Savannah, Ga., to Jacksonville, Fla.
07/01/2005 -- Greater Gorgon LNG development reaches next stage
Australia's $11 billion (Aus.) Greater Gorgon LNG development project has advanced to front-end engineering and design stage.
06/28/2005 -- Snøhvit plant ready for shipment to Melkøya
Statoil ASA said its barge-mounted production plant for the Snøhvit LNG project in the Barents Sea is ready to be shipped from the Dragados Offshore fabrication yard in Cádiz, Spain, to the island of Melkøya outside Hammerfest in northern Norway.
06/27/2005 -- Terminal planned for Qingdao refinery
The Port of Qingdao in eastern China has signed an agreement with China Petrochemical Corp. to form a crude oil terminal joint venture.

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