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Companies / Uruguay
Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras, YPF (the Argentine arm of Spanish major Repsol YPF) and Portugal's Galp Energia have been awarded blocks 3 and 4 in Uruguay's licensing round that was held on July 1 2009.
2009-07-02Companies / United States
A court case against Anglo-Dutch major Royal Dutch Shell's drilling plans in the Beaufort Sea has been dismissed by the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
2009-07-02Economy / Brazil
Brazilian state-owned oil company Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has secured sufficient financing to cover its US$174.4bn medium-term investment plan.
2009-06-30Companies / Maldives
Plans to build New Zealand's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal have been put on hold by the project planners owing to rising domestic gas output.
2009-07-02Industry / Japan
Japanese energy company Inpex announced on June 25 that it will begin constructing its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in July 2009. Falling domestic gas production is...
2009-06-30Companies / Singapore
The Singaporean government has announced that it will take over the development and ownership of the city state's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal. S. Iswaran, the...
2009-06-30Companies / Hungary
Hungary and Slovenia are considering connecting their gas and electricity networks to improve security of supply, according to Gordon Bajnai and Borut Pahor, Hungary's and Slovenia's respective prime ministers.
2009-07-02Companies / Kazakhstan
British major BP expects to raise around US$$2bn from the sale of its assets in Kazakhstan, according to a June 26 report in Bloomberg.
2009-06-26Companies / Russia
French major Total has received the blessing of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to form a joint venture (JV) with Russian independent gas producer Novatek.
2009-06-25Economy / Iran
The Iranian government is not expecting the current social unrest gripping the country to have an impact on its energy sector, a senior oil official announced on June 29. In our view the claim is overly optmistic.
2009-07-01Economy / Iraq
Iraq's flagship oil bidding round, the country's first since Saddam Hussein's nationalisation of the energy industry in 1972, has largely failed as international oil companies (IOCs)...
2009-07-01Industry / Libya
US major ExxonMobil has said it will start drilling the first of three deepwater exploration wells offshore Libya before the end of June. Exxon has been seeking to increase its activities...
2009-06-29Companies / Argentina
Spanish oil major Repsol YPF announced on July 1 that it had received several offers from companies in China, India and Russia for a stake in its Argentine unit Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF), although none was final, reported Upstream Online. The company's spokesperson, however, cautioned that no decision on 'selling YPF' had been made.
2009-07-02Industry / Norway
Sanctioning an approval given by the Norwegian energy ministry in May 2009, the parliament has given Eni the go-ahead to use a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel...
2009-07-02Industry / Denmark
Denmark's 'known' gas reserves grew by 2bn cubic metres (bcm) to 107bcm in 2008, according to the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) in its annual report published on June 15.
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