Tag: gas

Statoil has awarded European Marine Contractors the assignment of laying a pipeline between the Mikkel field in the Norwegian Sea and a subsea template on the Šsgard field's Midgard deposit.

New Zealand energy company Contact Energy Ltd and its cornerstone shareholder, Edison Mission, have given the go-ahead to a ASD 164 million peaking power plant in Victoria.

The Shaw Group Inc. and NRG Energy Inc. have signed an agreement for constructing two gas-fired power plants to be located in the South Central United States.

A consortium of foreign companies led by France's Electricité de France has signed four agreements with Vietnam and received a license to build a USD 400 million power plant in the south of the country.

The ASD 400 million offshore Victoria (Australia) BassGas project had been given Federal government major projects facilitation status, Industry, Science and Resources Minister Nick Minchin has said.

Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp. has secured a USD 200 million contract to provide power generation equipment for a major new plant in Brazil, the Orlando company has said.

Kinder Morgan Power Company, a subsidiary of Houston-based Kinder Morgan Inc., is planning to construct ten natural gas-fired generation plants that represent approximately 5500mw of intermediate power.

JGC/KBR, a 50/50 joint venture between JGC Corporation of Yokohama, Japan, and Kellogg Brown & Root, a business unit of Halliburton Company, have signed a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of the In Salah Gas facilities, infrastructure and gathering systems in southern Algeria for BP/Sonatrach.

BP Amoco and Algerian state hydrocarbons firm Sonatrach have signed a USD 2.5 billion deal to jointly develop the country’s In Salah gas reserves, executives of the two firms said.

UOG, the Arab Emirates group, will chose one company out of five western oil companies by the end of the year to replace US group Enron in the Dolphin gas project, in which French oil group TotalFinaElf is a partner.