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Industry / Canada
Canada's Imperial Oil has delayed a final investment decision (FID) on the Mackenzie gas pipeline project to 2013, pushing back the launch date to 2018 at the earliest.
2010-03-16Industry / Canada
The terms of the Terre de Grace deal have not been disclosed, although BP confirmed to the press on March 16 that it has farmed in to an operating interest in the project. The Terre...
2010-03-16Industry / United States
British major BP said on March 15 that it is nearing completion of a US$100mn facility that will be the first to produce heavy oil commercially from Alaska's North Slope field.
2010-03-16Industry / Australia
Integrated Australian energy company Origin Energy completed the acquisition of a controlling stake in the Otway gas project offshore Victoria from producer Woodside Petroleum on March 16.
2010-03-16Industry / Vietnam
US major Chevron has signed a deal with state-run PetroVietnam to build a pipeline from its operated offshore assets in the Cuu Long Basin to southern Vietnam. The deal is a significant...
2010-03-12Business Environment / Indonesia
Indonesia could miss its 2010 oil and condensate production target if the government carries out its plans to enforce stricter environmental regulations, an unnamed official at state...
2010-03-11Industry / 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.
2010-03-10Industry / 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...
2010-03-02Industry / Hungary
Canada's Talisman Energy has farmed in to UK-listed San Leon Energy's gas shale concessions in the onshore Baltic Basin in Poland in a EUR1.5mn (US$2mn) deal.
2010-03-01Companies / Iraq
UK-based explorer Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP) said on March 10 that it will have to raise funds in order to take control of its joint venture (JV) in Kurdistan after the material default of its partner
2010-03-11Industry / 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...
2010-03-10Companies / 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...
2010-03-10Industry / Norway
A consortium of oil majors led by Texas-based ConocoPhillips is planning to invest as much US$13bn to prolong the life of the Greater Ekofisk oil fields off Norway. The investment proposal, submitted to the authorities on March 12, would be one of the largest secondary recovery projects in the Norwegian North Sea, underlining the area's ongoing attractiveness to investors.
2010-03-15Companies / 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...
2010-03-04Companies / 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.
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