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• 08/05/2011 -- InterOil signs up PNG gas buyer
  InterOil Corp. signed a Heads of Agreement with Noble Clean Fuels of Singapore, a subsidiary of commodities trading Noble Group, to supply 1 million tonnes/year of LNG from a proposed Gulf LNG project in Papua New Guinea.
• 08/02/2011 -- Calls mount for sanctions against Syria's oil and gas industry
  US and European legislators have joined with Syrian dissidents in calling for international sanctions to be imposed on Syria’s oil and gas industry in an effort to bring an end to the country’s ruling regime. 
• 08/02/2011 -- Egypt-Israel gas pipeline attacked for 5th time this year
  Saboteurs have struck the El Arish to Ashkelon natural gas pipeline for the 5th time this year, blasting a hole in the line near the al-Shulaq gas terminal.
• 08/02/2011 -- India's gas use could displace 100,000 b/d of naphtha
  India’s natural gas use has grown sharply due to a surge in domestic production and stands to displace naphtha demand by about a third, according to analysts.
• 07/29/2011 -- ConocoPhillips-Origin Energy FID on CSG-LNG project
  ConocoPhillips and partner Origin Energy Ltd. made a final investment decision on Phase 1 of their proposed 2-train coalseam gas-LNG project in Queensland.
• 07/29/2011 -- Tepco may back out of Chevron's Wheatstone LNG project
  Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) said it may have to back out of a plan to purchase a stake in one of Chevron Corp.'s Wheatstone natural gas projects, on the same day they sealed a major gas supply deal.
• 07/29/2011 -- Cash-strapped Tajikistan launches construction of first refinery
  Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon launched construction of the country’s first refinery, a 2,000-b/d facility in the town of Tursunzoda about 40 km west of the capital, Dushanbe.
• 07/29/2011 -- Saboteurs bomb oil pipeline in Syria
  Syria’s authorities blamed saboteurs for the bombing of a major oil pipeline that carries crude westward to the 132,725-b/d refinery at Banyias from oil fields in Deir el-Zour province.
• 07/25/2011 -- Qatargas signs 20-year LNG supply deal with Malaysia
  Qatargas has signed an agreement to supply Petronas LNG Ltd. of Malaysia with 1.5 million tonnes/year (tpy) of LNG for at least 20 years starting in 2013.
• 07/22/2011 -- Shell brings FLNG expertise to Inpex's Abadi project
  Inpex Corp., acknowledging its need for floating LNG (FLNG) expertise, said it has signed an agreement with a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC to transfer a 30% stake on Masela Block in the Arafura Sea off Indonesia (called the Abadi Project; see map, OGJ, Feb. 5, 2001, p. 44).