Aussie gas utility AGL has farmed Epic Energy in for the construction of a $140-million gas pipeline two Australian regions, it was understood Friday. 
Total has all but secured reserves from Gazprom’s giant Shtokman gas field in the eastern Barents Sea, after a signing ceremony in Moscow Friday clinched a 25-year development deal, with options. 
Gazprom has chose French oil company Total to jointly own the Shtokman project company which will own some $16 billion in infrastructure at the 3.6-trillion-cubic metre gas field in the eastern Barents Sea. 
Melrose Resources in Egypt declared test results at the West Khilala-5 well confirm a consistent reservoir across the northern limits of the field, and the company hinted a production tie-back was in order. 
Statoil will look at producing the newly defined Ermintrude discovery in the North Sea via a tie-in to the Sleipner, Volve or Gudrun fields, after the detection of new extensions of gas and oil. 
Norwegian oil company Statoil and partners have proved more gas at the Yttergryta prospect in the Norwegian Sea. 
U.K. independent Empyrean Energy has reported another gas discovery at the Margarita project on the Gulf Coast of Texas, it was announced Tuesday. 
Supermajor BP has sent Norwegian officialdom its plan to develop the 30-billion-kroner ($5-billion) Skarv gas field using a “large production vessel”, subsea wells and an 80-kilometre, gas-export pipeline. 
A consortium of oilfield infrastructure builders J. Ray McDermott and Fluor has been awarded a contract to engineer, build, install and procure for BG’s offshore Poinsettia project in Trinidad & Tobago. 
The Norwegian parliament has approved oil company Talisman’s development plan for the Rev gas field at the North Sea meridian line between Norway and the United Kingdom. |
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Norwegian oil company Hydro has presented three design proposals for the development of Gazprom’s 3-trillion-cubic-metre gas field Shtokman in the Russian Barents Sea, judging from illustrations OilGas24.com saw Tuesday. 
ABB in Norway has won a NOK430-million ($72-million) contract to electrify Statoil’s Gjoa platform by sub-sea cable from gas-fired power plant at Mongstad, it was announced late Friday. 
The forecast for Norwegian oilfield spending in 2007 has been revised higher to a record NOK111.3 billion kroner ($18.58 billion) after a survey of spending by a national researcher. 
First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. has awarded the front-end engineering and design, or FEED contract for the giant Menzel Ledjment East project in Algeria to Technip business Genesis Oil & Gas Consultants Ltd. 
BG Group has finalized a deal to supply Chile's first import terminal for liquefied natural gas, or LNG, a project expected to supply 40 percent of the country’s needs.
Oilfield construction outfit McDermott International has confirmed its subsidiary, J. Ray McDermott has secured a four-year Saudi Aramco order to engineer, procure for, construct and install the Manifa field facilities in the Arabian Gulf. 
Statoil on Monday turned-on the sub-sea installations at its 193-billion-cubic-metre Snoehvit gas field off Hammerfest in the Arctic, a first in Norway for facilities remotely controlled from land. 
Despite project permit delays worldwide, Marathon Oil and partners are on-stream six months ahead of schedule with cargoes from a first train of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. 
Norwegian Oil and Energy Minister Odd Roger Eknoksen has said Russia continues to ask about gas-supply cooperation between producing countries, just as imports of offshore oilfield equipment are set to receive a boost. 
Statoil has sent a NOK500-million ($82.3-million) letter of intent to Swedish company ABB Power Technologies asking for the assembly and installation of a power cable from the North Sea’s Gjøa field. |
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