Africa-focused explorer Afren has farmed into Excel Exploration & Production Ltd.’s Eremor field development in Nigeria, where officials have given their go-ahead for development. 
Lloyd's Register EMEA, in conjunction with Caledonian Geotech Ltd and the Maritime Institute in Gdansk, has recently conducted what is believed to be the first offshore North Sea pipeline in-service survey using a multi-beam echo sounder (MBES). 
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. 
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. 
Imperial Oil on Tuesday affirmed the oil industry’s 130-year-old fixation with Russia with an oil strike and the declaration of a $245-million pipeline project for wells expected to come on stream. 
E.ON Ruhrgas AG is participating in the joint venture to plan a new European gas pipeline in Scandinavia. This Skanled pipeline is to transport Norwegian gas to Norway, Sweden and Denmark. 
Enbridge Inc. and ExxonMobil Pipeline Company have agreed to jointly assess the commercial development of a new pipeline project to transport crude oil from Patoka, Illinois, to Beaumont, Texas, and onward to Houston. The pipeline project would provide competitive and timely access for U.S. domestic and growing Canadian supplies of crude oil to be transported from the Patoka pipeline transportation hub to the U.S. Gulf Coast. 
Italy-based Saipem and Lead Contracting have been awarded a $950 million Sonatrech onshore contract in Algeria to engineer, procure for and construct a crude oil treatment and stabilisation plant at Hassi Messaoud, 800 kilometres southeast of Algier. 
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. |
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Some 300,000 barrels of day of Iraqi oil could start flowing from a northern pipeline in one or two months, subject to insurgent attacks, a Dow Jones report has said, quoting an optimistic Iraqi Oil Minister. 
U.K. oil company Imperial Energy has survived its first meet with oil company nemisis Oleg Mitvol — the arms-length Russian enforcer of Siberian oilfield licenses — and has announced it’ll fill its two new pipelines with oil by July 2007.
Imperial Energy heralded on Friday the finding of “very promising hydrocarbon reservoirs” without the specifics of well testing, as the company explores the Festivalnoye field in the Tomsk region of Western Siberia. 
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. 
Swiber’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Swiber Engineering Limited, has successfully entered into a Letter of Agreement (“LOA”) worth US$21.3 million for the installation of platforms and pipelines at the West Madura and Poleng Fields in Indonesia. 
Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko has issued a call to the European Union not to politicize a planned stoppage of the Druzhba pipeline to the Baltic States. 
Lloyd's Register España S.A. has been awarded the contract for provision of inspection and certification services for the prestigious MEDGAZ gas pipeline project. 
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. 
Punj Lloyd Limited (PLL), a global EPC services provider in energy and infrastructure domains, has secured the contract for construction of pipeline from OGC (Oman Gas Company) on EPC basis in Oman. The contract is valued at Rs 5.30 billion ($123 million).
Imperial Energy has finished two, 208-kilometre pipelines from the Tomsk region of Western Siberia for its planned flows of some 6,000 barrels of oil this summer, a statement Wednesday heralded. |
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