Tag: gas

Stork lands Dutch gas contract

Stork GLT has received a follow-on contract from the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV (NAM) to further renovate the Groningen gasfield (the Netherlands), including the installation of compressors.

Saudis likely to sign mega gas deal

Saudi Arabia will likely strike a multi-billion dollar deal with a group of global oil giants to tap its massive gas resources despite a series of setbacks in their negotiations over the past months, according to a western oil executive involved in the talks.

UK source for pipes

The production facilities for the manufacture of specialist formed and welded pipes previously supplied by Bentham International have been taken over by the Angle Ring Co. Ltd (Tipton, UK).

LNG plant in Equatorial Guinea

Marathon Oil Company has awarded a front-end engineering and design contract to Bechtel Corporation for the company's planned phase 3 expansion project in Equatorial Guinea.

Joint methane venture

Samson Investment Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma has announced a joint venture with Prima Energy Corporation to jointly develop coal bed methane reserves on 11,600 gross acres in the Powder River Basin.

Faeroese oil find

On the Faeroe Islands expectations of having an oil industry in future are growing after a new discovery in the British sector of the sea area.

Crunch point for PNG pipe dream

The proposed Papua New Guinea-to-Queensland gas pipeline is reportedly close to becoming a reality.

Sunrise setback

Woodside (Perth, Australia) has said that neither of the two competing proposals to develop one of the gas fields between Australia and East Timor were feasible.

Spanish power plant approved

Spain's economics ministry has approved a 400-MW gas-fired, combined-cycle plant planned by Union Fenosa for Villaseca de la Sagra in Toledo province.

UK south coast power plant

The UK has US energy firm Aquila permission to a build an 860-MW gas-fired power station at Marchwood near Southampton on England's south coast.