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. 
Mexican army and police have been reinforced after two pipeline blasts in a week proved to be the work of rebels partly protesting the narrow election win of the conservative federal government. 
Statoil has has handed out five-year contracts for pipeline coating services worth NOK3 billion ($515 million) with Bredero, Socotherm and Eupec, the oil company heralded Friday. 
U.K. independent Empyrean Energy has reported another gas discovery at the Margarita project on the Gulf Coast of Texas, it was announced Tuesday. 
BP has closed down the CATS gas pipeline network after a remotely operated vehicle on Sunday discovered damage caused by the dropping of a ship’s anchor onto pipe and concrete casing. 
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. 
Silver Star Energy, Inc. reports on the progress of pipeline construction and ultimate tie-in of gas wells at the MB Gas Project, located in the Manyberries area of Alberta, Canada. 
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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Wintershall and Gazprom subsidiary WINGAS will build a $4 billion pipeline by 2015 to link up to Nord Stream, the pipeline being built under the Baltic Sea to help the Russian gas giant meet German demand. 
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. 
Norway-based oilfield services outfit AGR Group has penned a deal with to provide GE NOK150 million ($25 million) worth of its pipeline inspection tools. 
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. 
Irish independent Petrel Resources has tied its fortunes in Syria to a production-sharing agreement for the East Safawi block, where Jordanian authorities intend to spend $2.5 billion. 
Sub-sea contractor Subsea 7 has won a double-bill Norsk Hydro contract worth $340 million for engineering, procuerment installation and commissioning at Vega, Vega South and the Troll 02 fields off southwest Norway. 
Russia has Turkmen and Kazakh agreement to build an oil pipeline through its territory for hydrocarbon riches from the Caspian Sea, it was widely reported at the weekend. 
Eni confirms that Ogoda-Brass and Tebidaba-Brass pipelines have been sabotaged. 
Imperial Energy has had a “constructive” meeting with the Russian Environment Ministry’s supermajor nemesis Oleg Mitvol in Tomsk region, where the company recently built two pipelines. 
Statoil strategists believe Russian energy company Gazprom will move to create Shtokman infrastructure within seven years, building pipelines “from south to north” in tandem with Norwegian development. |
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