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Americas

Business Environment / Peru

French independent Perenco has submitted to the Peruvian energy ministry an environmental report for the Curaray-Andoas oil pipeline project, part of its large heavy crude development in the north of the country.

2010-03-09

Political Risk / United States

The US federal government and the states are set for a new skirmish over liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in the country. On March 2, five Senate Democrats re-introduced a bill... 2010-03-08


Political Risk / Mexico

Japan will lend Mexican oil monopoly Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) US$600mn to develop the Chicontepec Basin, according to a March 5 report by the Nikkei news agency quoted by Dow... 2010-03-08

Asia

Companies / Indonesia

Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power has agreed to buy a total of 2mn tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG), equivalent to 2.8bn cubic metres (bcm), between 2011 and 2015 from Indonesia's Tangguh export

2010-03-09

Industry / Philippines

Leading Philippine refiner Petron is to invest US$600-700mn through to 2014-2015 on upgrading its processing facilities, CEO Eric Recto told Reuters on March 5.

2010-03-05

Economy / Philippines

The Philippine government is to divest its prime energy asset, the 10% interest in the Malampaya gas-to-power project held by the state's upstream unit PNOC-EC.

2010-03-05
Emerging Europe

Industry / Russia

Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft will begin constructing a new major link from northern Russia on March 11. The 430km Purpe-Samotlor pipeline will provide a better export route from crude volumes from the giant Vankor oil field and will speed up the development of other deposits in the Yamal and north-western Krasnoyarsk regions.

2010-03-10

Industry / Germany

France has officially signalled its support for the Russian-backed Nord Stream pipeline project. On March 2, partially state-owned GDF Suez signed a letter of intent (LoI) with the... 2010-03-02


Companies / Germany

Russia's state-owned Gazprom has renegotiated gas sales prices with three of its European customers: France's GDF Suez, Germany's E.ON Ruhrgas and Italy's Eni, according to... 2010-02-26

Middle East & Africa

Industry / Namibia

Russian gas giant Gazprom is close to reaching a deal with Anglo-Irish explorer Tullow Oil to enter the Kudu gas-to-power project in Namibia. The deal would mark Gazprom's first upstream development venture in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of particular interest for the company.

2010-03-10

Companies / Algeria

Algeria is planning to hold a licensing round before the end of 2010, the country's energy minister, Chakib Khelil, told Reuters in a March 8 interview. The minister did not provide... 2010-03-10


Industry / Egypt

Sharjah-based Dana Gas announced two gas discoveries in its wholly-owned West El Manzala concession in the Nile Delta on March 7. Having entered Egypt in 2006 through the acquisition... 2010-03-09

Western Europe

Companies / United Kingdom

London-listed oil services company Petrofac has announced that it is spinning off its UK upstream assets and combining them with Lundin Petroleum's into a new North Sea-focused company, dubbed EnQuest.

2010-03-04

Companies / Qatar

Qatar's Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company (RasGas) announced the start-up of train seven of the RasGas III project on February 24.

2010-02-25

Companies / United Kingdom

The UK's Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has granted a licence to Gateway Storage Company to build a new gas storage facility in the east Irish Sea.

2010-02-16