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Transportation 2008 P
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11/17/2008 -- BGTT lets pre-FEED contracts for marine facilities
BG Trinidad & Tobago has let two contracts valued at $1.2 million to KBR consulting subsidiary Granherne certain pre-FEED studies. -
11/17/2008 -- Emboldened Somali pirates hijack Aramco tanker
Somali pirates operating on the high seas southeast of Mombassa, Kenya, have hijacked the Liberian-flagged Sirius Star, a VLCC owned by Aramco and operated by Vela International. -
11/17/2008 -- Bobcat Louisiana gas storage site in operation
Bobcat Gas Storage has started up operations at its natural gas storage facility in St. Landry Parish, La. -
11/17/2008 -- Kuwait Oil awards pipeline contract to Petrofac
Kuwait Oil has let a $543 million contract to Petrofac for EPC services for a natural gas pipeline to extend from its Booster Station 131 in northern Kuwait to KOC's LPG plant at the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery. -
11/13/2008 -- Russians, Chinese suspend talks on ESPO spur
Russia and China, apparently backtracking on agreements made less than a month ago, have suspended talks on the construction of the proposed spur from the ESPO pipeline. -
11/13/2008 -- 'Gas Troika' plans LNG joint venture, paper says
Russia's state-owned Gazprom, Qatar Liquefied Gas Co., and Iran's NIOC plan to establish a joint venture to produce gas from Iran's South Pars field and liquefy it at Qatar's Ras Laffan. -
11/12/2008 -- Japan 'unlikely' to buy on LNG spot market
Japan is unlikely to purchase further cargoes of LNG on the spot market this winter, according to Akio Nomura, chairman of Osaka Gas Co. Ltd. and the Japan Gas Association. -
11/11/2008 -- Somali pirates defy coalition; seize another tanker
Pirates off Somalia have hijacked a second vessel chartered by chemical tanker group Stolt-Nielsen, this time taking the MT Stolt Strength in the Gulf of Aden. -
11/10/2008 -- Europe reaffirms Nabucco's strategic importance
EU's energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs, following meetings in Turkey and Azerbaijan, reaffirmed the strategic importance of the southern gas corridor, which aims to supply Europe with gas from Caspian and Central Asian nations. -
11/09/2008 -- Vopak pursues new Turkish storage terminal
Royal Vopak plans to construct an oil products storage terminal on the coast of the Sea of Marmara in the vicinity of Yalova, Turkey. -
11/07/2008 -- Turkey pipeline blast rekindles security concerns
Oil has resumed flowing through one of the twin Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipelines following an explosion on one of the lines near the town of Bozova, in the province of Sanliurfa in southeastern Turkey. -
11/07/2008 -- PNG to use its Oil Search stake for LNG project funding
Papua New Guinea PEM Arthur Somare has confirmed that IPBC will use its 17.56% equity in Oil Search to raise funds to maintain its forthcoming 19.4% stake in the ExxonMobil-operated PNG LNG project. -
11/07/2008 -- Enbridge announces open season on Midla pipeline
Enbridge Energy Partners announced a nonbinding open season for additional firm capacity on its Enbridge Pipelines subsidiary's interstate natural gas pipeline system. -
11/07/2008 -- GAO suggests more third-party verification of MMS royalty-in-kind production
The US Minerals Management Service could improve oversight of its oil and gas royalty-in-kind program by verifying more production data through third parties and improving reports of benefits and costs, the Government Accountability Office said on Oct. 29. -
11/06/2008 -- Woodside lets another constract for Pluto LNG project
Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has awarded another contract for the Pluto LNG project in Western Australia to Paladio Group subsidiary Decmil Australia. -
11/06/2008 -- Woodside lets another contract for Pluto LNG project
Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has awarded another contract for the Pluto LNG project in Western Australia to Paladio Group subsidiary Decmil Australia. -
11/06/2008 -- Dolphin Energy begins supplying gas to Oman
Abu Dhabi's Dolphin Energy, as part of a 25-year gas sales agreement signed in 2005, has begun supplying Qatari natural gas to Oman via pipeline. -
11/05/2008 -- Baku-Supsa line reopens, BTC ships Kazakh oil
BP said the TengizChevrOil consortium has begun transporting oil through the BTC pipeline and that the Baku-Supsa pipeline has reopened after being closed during recent hostilities between Russian and Georgia. -
11/04/2008 -- Centrica secures LNG cargo from Qatar
Centrica PLC will import its first cargo of LNG from Qatar later this month to commission the second expansion phase of the Isle of Grain LNG terminal in Kent. -
11/03/2008 -- Iran building bases to 'protect' Strait of Hormuz
Iran has begun building a line of naval bases along its southern coast and down to the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the strategic Gulf oil waterway, according to a senior Iranian official.
