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Transportation 2005 P

  • 06/01/2005 -- Pakistan to claim compensation for spill
    Pakistan will claim compensation of $2 billion from the last owners of the Tasman Spirit oil tanker, which ran aground off Karachi July 27, 2003, and spilled 31,000 tonnes of crude oil (OGJ Online, Aug. 14, 2003).
  • 05/27/2005 -- Crosstex Energy plans pipeline expansion
    Crosstex Energy LP, Dallas, plans to expand and extend the Crosstex LIG pipeline system to access natural gas being developed in northwestern Louisiana and to receive as much as 700 MMcfd of gas from East Texas to be delivered by a new interstate pipeline of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMEP).
  • 05/25/2005 -- First leg of BTC pipeline inaugurated in Azerbaijan
    The first leg of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil export pipeline was inaugurated May 25 in an official ceremony at the head pump station in the Sangachal Terminal near Baku.
  • 05/24/2005 -- BP tankers idled after rudder cracks found
    Two double-hull oil tankers, both owned and operated by BP Oil & Shipping Co USA, were pulled from service in Alaska following the discovery of large cracks in their rudders.
  • 05/24/2005 -- Iran taps Daewoo for VLCC contracts
    South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. received a $384 million order from the Iranian government to build three crude carriers.
  • 05/24/2005 -- Enbridge plans Texas gas pipeline links
    An Enbridge Energy Partners LP subsidiary plans to invest $19 million on pipeline links in Texas to accommodate an agreement to transport as much as 100 MMcfd of natural gas through the Atmos Energy Corp. intrastate pipeline system.
  • 05/20/2005 -- Queensland coalbed methane pipeline planned
    Enertrade, a Queensland, Aus., utility, plans a pipeline to transport coalbed methane from Moranbah field west of Mackay to the industrial center of Gladstone.
  • 05/20/2005 -- Austria's Haidach gas field due storage role
    Rohöl AG (RAG), Wingas GMBH, and Gazexport have signed a contract valued at 250 million euros to use Haidach natural gas field in Austria for gas storage.
  • 05/18/2005 -- Gas expected to fill big share of energy-market growth
    Natural gas is "well positioned" to capture nearly a third of all energy-market growth by 2020, said Alex Dodds, managing director of Ras Laffan LNG Co. Ltd (RasGas II) of Qatar at a May 12 industry meeting in Singapore.
  • 05/18/2005 -- Ras Al Khaimah receiving Dolphin gas
    Dolphin Energy Ltd. began to supply natural gas May 15 to Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
  • 05/18/2005 -- Venture proposes California LNG terminal
    ConocoPhillips Co. has signed a joint development agreement with Mitsubishi Corp. subsidiary Sound Energy Solutions (SES) to build an LNG import terminal in Long Beach, Calif.
  • 05/17/2005 -- Repsol, Gas Natural to form LNG venture
    Repsol YPF and Grupo Gas Natural SDG, both of Spain, have signed an agreement to participate jointly in integrated LNG projects that include exploration, production, liquefaction, transportation, and marketing of natural gas.
  • 05/17/2005 -- Dampier-Bunbury pipeline expansion planned
    The Dampier-Bunbury natural gas pipeline linking North West Shelf fields off Western Australia to the southeastern region of the state is to undergo a capacity expansion.
  • 05/17/2005 -- PTT to buy joint development area gas
    Thailand's PTT PLC received approval from the Thai Cabinet to purchase of natural from three blocks in the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area (MTJDA) in the South China Sea.
  • 05/16/2005 -- Centrica to operate Gassco UK gas terminal
    Gassco AS, Norway's state-owned gas company, let a contract to Britain's Centrica Energy PLC to operate a planned natural gas receiving terminal at Easington in the UK. Centrica operates its own Easington gas terminal.
  • 05/16/2005 -- Trans-Saharan pipeline study awarded
    Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. and Algeria's Sonatrach have awarded a contract to a joint venture of Penspen Ltd. of the UK and IPA Energy Consulting Ltd., Edinburgh, to study the feasibility of a Trans-Saharan natural gas pipeline.
  • 05/11/2005 -- JV signs contract for China gas pipeline
    The Hangzhou Gas (Group) Co. Ltd. (HGG), Shell (China) Ltd., Shell China BV, and Hong Kong & China Gas Co. Ltd. (Towngas) have signed a joint venture contract to build, operate, and manage a high-pressure natural gas pipeline system in Hangzhou, China.
  • 05/10/2005 -- Sunoco to expand Texas pipeline system
    Sunoco Logistics Partners LP, Philadelphia, has signed an agreement with Mobil Pipe Line Co. to purchase a 187-mile, 16-in. crude oil pipeline system between Corsicana and Wichita Falls, Tex.
  • 05/06/2005 -- Second combined regas tanker delivered
    The second of three first-generation combined LNG regasification-tanker vessels was delivered to owner GKFF Ltd. on Thursday, May 4, according to Jon Cook, vice-president for Excelerate Energy LLC, Houston.
  • 05/06/2005 -- OTC paper reveals tests of LNG pipeline
    Despite the many LNG terminals planned in major market areas of Western Europe and North America, especially the US, the industry is moving to solve technical issues for offshore LNG terminals.