Silver Star updates MB Gas Pipeline progress Jun 19, 2007
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.

Ability rig order marks Norwegian walk in desert Jun 18, 2007
Norway-based Ability Drilling has executed an option and ordered an onshore drill rig and a workover rig from southwest Norwegian TTS Marine Drilling equipment, a business of Sense EDM of Kristiansand.

ONGC okays Mumbai platform re-build Jun 11, 2007
Managers of Indian oil company ONGC have approved the reconstruction of Platform NQO at the offshore Mumbai North field, it was understood Monday.

ABB electrifies NCS, clinches $72M cable Jun 8, 2007
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.

Aibel to manage Aussie Puffin FPSO Jun 8, 2007
Aibel Pty Ltd. has won the farreaching job of managing the floating production, storage and offloading vesssel Front Puffin FPSO off northwest Australia.

Star Energy joins Australian bid to store Italian gas Jun 8, 2007
An Australian company’s bid to help increase Italy’s underground storage capacity has won the backing of Star Energy Group plc, the second largest onshore oil producer in the United Kingdom and a major operator and developer of underground gas storage facilities.

Norway: 2007 to set $18.6B spending record Jun 7, 2007
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 hands Algeria FEED to Technip’s Genesis Jun 6, 2007
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, Chile gas pact is $775M CB&I job Jun 4, 2007
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.

PetroMena interests win in $942M Pemex hire Jun 4, 2007
Pemex has hired the PetroRig III, a rig and business of PetroMena, whose major shareholder Larsen Oil & Gas will manage a contract worth $942 million, or 1,825 days of work.

Aspen tests gas at West Grimes field May 30, 2007
Aspen Exploration Corporation announced today a successful flow test on a prolific gas well located in the Sacramento Valley gas province of northern California.

J. Ray McDermott to manufacture Manifa May 29, 2007
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.

AGR, GE sign $25M pipeline pact May 29, 2007
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.

Experts: Central, East Europe power markets set to grow May 24, 2007
Central and Eastern European markets for steam and gas turbines are set to grow as high prices plateau and European Union funds for cleaner-burning energy are made available, consuntants Frost and Sulliven are expected to tell suppliers later this month.

Oil minister's gas talk fuels Shtokman supplier hopes May 23, 2007
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.
By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI