(September 08, 2008, 3:09 PM)
Origin Energy, Sydney, has shunned English suitor BG Group by selecting US major ConocoPhillips as operating partner in its four-train coal seam methane and LNG project proposed for Gladstone in Queensland.

(September 08, 2008, 3:09 PM)
The Iraqi government has approved Shell's Iraq Gas Master Plan, paving the way for the firm to invest $3-4 billion to gather 500-600 MMcfd of associated natural gas in the southern part of the country.

(September 04, 2008, 4:09 PM)
North Dakota crude oil production and imports from Canada exceed current pipeline capacity in the region, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Joseph H. Kelliher told a US Senate subcommittee Sept. 3.

(September 04, 2008, 4:09 PM)
Indonesia is in talks with Inpex Holdings aimed at having the firm construct the world's first offshore LNG terminal as part of its development of the Masela offshore gas field in the Timor Sea.

(September 03, 2008, 2:09 PM)
A contract has been awarded for construction of a 24-in., 235-km pipeline to connect Rubiales heavy oil field in east-central Colombia to the OCENSA pipeline.

(September 03, 2008, 9:09 AM)
A proposed LNG project in Coos Bay, Ore., would have limited adverse environmental impacts, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission concluded in a draft environmental impact statement.

(September 02, 2008, 3:09 PM)
A proposed LNG terminal outside Baltimore and its associated pipeline would have limited adverse environmental impacts, FERC said in a draft environmental impact statement.

(September 02, 2008, 3:09 PM)
The North West Shelf gas project's fifth LNG train at the Woodside Petroleum-operated facilities on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha in Western Australia has been brought on stream.

(August 30, 2008, 6:08 AM)
BP PLC, which earlier this week resumed shipments through the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, said it has no start date yet for reopening the 155,000-b/d capacity Baku-Supsa pipeline, also known as the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP).

(August 29, 2008, 4:08 PM)
Inpex Holdings Inc. has begun a ¥100 billion project to build a regasification terminal in Niigata Prefecture on Japan's Honshu Island and anticipates starting regular operations in 2014.

(August 29, 2008, 12:08 AM)
Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co., (WBI) the wholly owned natural gas transmission pipeline subsidiary of MDU Resources Group Inc., reported it will expand firm transportation capacity on its existing Grasslands Pipeline to 213 MMcfd from the current 138 MMcfd—a 54% increase. Project cost is expected to be about $28 million.

(August 28, 2008, 12:08 AM)
Affiliates of Enterprise Products Partners LP have signed long-term agreements with major Barnett shale natural gas producers for about 900 MMcfd on its 1.1 bcfd-capacity Sherman Extension pipeline.

(August 27, 2008, 5:08 PM)
The US State Department has approved the EA of a proposed 10 3/4-in. gasoline and diesel export pipeline to be constructed by PMI Services North America from El Paso to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico's Chihuahua state.

(August 26, 2008, 4:08 PM)
Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, inaugurated the country's first LNG receiving terminal Aug. 20 at Pecem, in Ceara state.

(August 26, 2008, 4:08 PM)
Some 1.7 million bbl of Azeri crude were loaded aboard two tankers at Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, the first transfer since the closure of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline on Aug.5 due to an explosion and fire.

(August 25, 2008, 4:08 PM)
BP PLC has reopened the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline through conflict-stricken Georgia, and normal operations are under way.