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06/17/2008 -- Yemen LNG secures financing, sales contracts
Yemen LNG has obtained $2.8 billion in financing for construction of its LNG liquefaction plant on the Gulf of Aden at Belhaf.
06/16/2008 -- Flex LNG, Rift Oil to develop Papua New Guinea stranded gas
Norway's Flex LNG has signed a heads of agreement with Rift Oil to jointly develop and market Rift's onshore Papua New Guinea gas reserves in the country's western highlands.
06/14/2008 -- Rolling strike delays oil shipping through Marseille port
A rolling strike, which already has halted oil shipping through the Port of Marseille, is set to continue for a further 5 days, according to officials of the state-run port administration.
06/13/2008 -- Habshan-Fujairah pipeline start-up delayed 1 year
Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Co. said its planned 1.5 million b/d Habshan-Fujairah oil pipeline will begin operating in March 2010, about a year later than originally planned.
06/13/2008 -- UK fuel tanker drivers begin strike
Hundreds of UK fuel tanker drivers began to strike in the early morning hours June 13 in protest about their wages after last-minute talks to resolve the dispute collapsed.
06/11/2008 -- CO₂ emissions policy to affect LNG imports, report says
Potential regulation to tighten carbon dioxide emissions in the US could increase demand for gas and pit the US against Europe in a bid to secure future supplies, according to Booz & Co.
06/10/2008 -- Nabucco gas line preps for open season interest
Although the investment required to build the 3,300-km, 31 billion cu m Nabucco natural gas pipeline has increased, its "competitiveness is not affected," according to Reinhard Mitschek, managing director of Nabucco Gaspipeline International.
06/09/2008 -- NWS gas supplies to take 60 days to restore after fire
Apache Energy reported it will be 2 months before partial gas supplies are restored following a fire and explosion that ripped through its gas processing plant on Varanus Island on Australia's North West Shelf.
06/06/2008 -- Petrobras to decide LNG terminal location in mid-July
Brazil's Petrobras will decide in July where it plans to locate the country's third regasification terminal, according to a senior company official.
06/05/2008 -- Papua New Guinea revives profits tax
Papua New Guinea has revived its additional profits tax (APT) to apply to the proposed ExxonMobil Corp.-led Papua New Guinea LNG project.
06/04/2008 -- Independence Trail pipeline resumes operations
Enterprise Products Partners has completed repairs to the flex-joint assembly of the Independence Trail gas pipeline, the source of a leak that occurred Apr. 8.
06/04/2008 -- European Parliament committee seeks Nord Stream route change
The Nord Stream pipeline needs to be carefully monitored for its environmental risks, reported members of the European Parliament's petitions committee.
06/03/2008 -- Petrobras, BG Group sign two LNG deals
Petrobras, in an effort to reduce its dependence on imports from neighboring Bolivia, has announced the signing of two contracts for the purchase of LNG from Britain's BG Group.
06/02/2008 -- Angola LNG awards Toyo Kanetsu tanks contracts
Bechtel Group has awarded Toyo Kanetsu an order valued at ¥13.5 billion to design and supply two large LNG tanks and two LPG tanks for the Angola LNG gas liquefaction project at Soya.
05/30/2008 -- FERC authorizes Rockies Express for REX-East line
The US FERC authorized Rockies Express Pipeline to construct and operate its planned 1.8 bcfd REX-East interstate natural gas pipeline.
05/30/2008 -- Gaz de France, Hoegh sign joint FSRU agreement
Gaz de France has signed a joint development agreement with Oslo-based Hoegh LNG for the design, construction, and operation of a floating storage and regasification unit vessel.
05/30/2008 -- Pipeline would ship gas from Bakken play
A proposed 100-mile, 16-in. pipeline in northwestern North Dakota would transport associated gas from the Mississippian-Devonian Bakken oil play in the Williston basin.
05/29/2008 -- Petronas buys into Santos CSM-LNG project
Malaysia's government-owned Petronas is to buy into Santos Ltd.'s proposed LNG project in Queensland that will be fed by the Adelaide-based company's coal seam methane assets in the Bowen basin.
05/29/2008 -- Petrobras plans ethanol export pipelines
José Sérgio Gabrielli, president of Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras), said the state-owned firm plans to have its first ethanol pipeline operating by yearend 2009.
05/28/2008 -- Pipeline to shorten West Coast deliveries
BP Products North America signed an agreement with Petroterminal de Panama to ship oil to its US West Coast refineries through the Trans-Panama Pipeline.

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