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07/05/2006 -- Talisman commissions Lynx gas pipeline
Talisman Energy Inc. has commissioned its 45%-owned Lynx natural gas pipeline, which will gather gas in the Grande Cache area of the northern Alberta Foothills.
06/29/2006 -- MOU to speed Alaska gas line permitting processes
Senior executives from 15 federal agencies have signed a memorandum of understanding to expedite permitting processes and establish a management framework to reduce bureaucratic delays in construction of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska, the US Department of Energy said on June 29.
06/28/2006 -- FERC approves El Paso's Cypress gas line
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the 176-mile Cypress natural gas pipeline expansion in Georgia and Florida planned by Southern Natural Gas Co. (SNG), a unit of El Paso Corp., Houston.
06/26/2006 -- FERC approves ESNG's pipeline system expansion
Eastern Shore Natural Gas Co. (ESNG), a subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities Corp., has received US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval for an expansion in 2006-08 of the company's gas pipeline system.
06/23/2006 -- Gazprom, DONG sign gas supply deal
Russia's JSC Gazprom has signed an agreement with Danish utility DONG Energy to deliver natural gas to Denmark. The agreement represents the first-ever gas supply deal between the two countries.
06/23/2006 -- Kinder Morgan to build oil storage in Edmonton
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP unit Kinder Morgan Terminals Canada ULC, Calgary, plans to begin construction this summer on a $133 million (Can.) crude oil tank farm in Edmonton, Alta., just north of its Trans Mountain Pipeline oil storage facility.
06/22/2006 -- El Paso eyes gas storage facility in Arizona
El Paso Corp.'s Western Pipeline Group reported plans to develop a new underground natural gas storage facility near Eloy, Ariz.
06/21/2006 -- FERC approves five LNG projects; one faces dispute
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved five LNG projects expected to increase US LNG import capacity by at least 8.2 bcfd.
06/21/2006 -- ConocoPhillips mulls additional trains at Darwin
ConocoPhillips Australia Pty. Ltd., operator of the Darwin LNG plant, could spend as much as $10 billion (Aus.) to build a second and perhaps a third train on site to treble the current capacity of 3.5 million tonnes/year of LNG.
06/20/2006 -- Total expanding gas projects in France
Total plans to spend €550 million on three major gas projects in France during the next 5 years.
06/19/2006 -- Kazakhstan to ship oil through BTC line
Kazakhstan will begin transporting oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline following an agreement signed June 16 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Azeribaijan President Ilham Aliev.
06/16/2006 -- CERA: LNG growth exceeds expectations
In a market growing faster than had been expected, LNG will meet 15% of global gas demand by 2012, says an analysis by Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
06/16/2006 -- Iraq's northern oil exports await report
Iraq has temporarily suspended shipments of crude oil to the Turkish port of Ceyhan from its northern fields around Kirkuk pending a report on the condition of the country's export pipeline system.
06/15/2006 -- Kinder Morgan to expand Texas gas storage
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP plans to add 5.5 bcf of incremental working storage capacity at its Dayton, Tex., natural gas facility with construction of a third storage cavern.
06/15/2006 -- ConocoPhillips withdraws LNG application
ConocoPhillips has withdrawn its application for a deepwater port license for the proposed Compass Port LNG project 11 miles off Dauphin Island, Ala.
06/15/2006 -- Regulatory review starts for LNG terminal
WestPac LNG Corp. has begun regulatory review for its proposed $350 million LNG terminal on Ridley Island near Prince Rupert, BC.
06/14/2006 -- Gaz de France eyes South Pars interest
Gaz de France is prepared to invest as much as $300 million for interests in the South Pars gas production and LNG project in Iran, a GDF executive indicated at the World Gas Conference in Amsterdam.
06/12/2006 -- Keystone project gas-line conversion sought
TransCanada Corp. has filed an application with the National Energy Board (NEB) for conversion of a portion of the company's natural gas pipeline to crude oil transportation.
06/08/2006 -- Kazakhstan to join BTC pipeline
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said his country will become part of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline this month after it signs a formal agreement with Azerbaijan.
06/08/2006 -- Japanese-Russian talks progress over ESPO oil line
Talks between Japan and Russia are said to be progressing over a proposal to have Japanese firms join Russian development of an East Siberian oil field in connection with the project to lay the 4,188-km East Siberia Pacific Ocean crude oil pipeline.

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