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Qatar Fertiliser Company (Qafco), Qatar, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Norsk Hydro, Norway, commissioned Krupp Uhde GmbH with the construction of a turnkey fertiliser complex (Qafco IV) in the industrial region of Mesaieed.

El Paso Corporation and GDF Energy, Inc., a subsidiary of Gaz de France, have announced an open season today for the proposed development of 3.0 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of high- deliverability natural gas storage capacity from a new facility to be constructed in Schuyler County, New York.

Cuba is planning to begin exploration for oil in its waters in the Gulf of Mexico in August, it was reported.

Atofina, the Chemical branch of TotalFinaElf S.A., is to increase its hydrogen peroxide production capacity by over 50% at its Becancour (Quebec) plant, going from 73 kT/yr to 110 kT/yr.

Moravske Naftove Doly (MND) (Hodonin, Czech Republic), petroleum exploitation company, is to begin exploiting natural gas in Pakistan in 2002.

Norway's Stat Oil is interested in moving into natural gas production in Venezuela and looking for the right moment to work jointly with state-run Petróleos de Venezuela , PDVSA

UTE will call for an international bid for a private company to build a natural gas thermal plant and sell the generated electricity to the Uruguayan company UTE.

South Korea plans to build 10 more power-generating nuclear reactors by 2011 to meet its growing electricity demand.

FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that MODEC International LLC, a joint venture of FMC Technologies and MODEC Inc., Tokyo, has signed a contract with Enterprise Oil to provide the Floating Production Storage and Offloading System (FPSO) solution and related subsea equipment for its Bijupira and Salema fields development offshore Brazil.

Dynegy Inc. has announced plans to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving and re-gasification terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana, on the site of the company's existing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) terminal.