Inaugural Nexus Annual General Meeting and Board Meeting

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Lagos, Nigeria -(Oilandgaspress) - Nexus Alliance Limited (Nexus), a  training, manpower supply and technology services company for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical industry announced that at the premier AGM and Board ...


Eni and Altergaz enter the shareholding of Gaz de Bordeaux Energie Services

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Eni and Altergaz enter the shareholding of Gaz de Bordeaux Energie Services increasing their presence in the French gas market   Eni and Altergaz will support the development of Gaz de Bordeaux ...


European Parliament Acknowledges Importance of Nord Stream Gas Pipeline

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Nord Stream welcomes the adoption today of a report on the impact of the planned pipeline by the European Parliament. This report clearly demonstrates an improved understanding by MEPs of ...


GE Oil & Gas Expands Local Service Capabilities in Qatar

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Ribbon Cutting Officially Opens New Service Center DOHA, Qatar--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Further expanding its capabilities in the region, GE Oil & Gas has established a Qatar Service Center at the Ras Laffan Support ...


Eni makes new gas discovery in Pakistan

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The well was successfully tested and flowed at 25 million standard cubic feet of gas per day with 60 barrels of condensate per day San Donato Milanese (Milan), 23 June 2008 ...


Brunei : Total announces a significant offshore discovery of gas and condensates

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

 Total announces today a significant discovery of gas and condensates on Block B, offshore Brunei, in a water depth of 62 metres, approximately 50 kilometres from the coast. Total, with a ...


Oando Gas and Power Wins Second Nigerian Gas Awards

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Oando Gas and Power, a subsidiary of Oando PLC, Nigeria’s leading integrated energy group, has won the Gas Corporate Award (Downstream) for 2008 as the Best Gas Company operating in ...


Gas and condensate discovery

Friday, May 9th, 2008

StatoilHydro has confirmed the existence of gas and condensate on the Alve field in the Norwegian Sea around 16 km southeast of the Norne field. Based on a preliminary estimate, the ...


Crosstex Energy Signs Agreement with Contango to Process Gulf of Mexico Deep-Shelf Gas Production

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Crosstex Energy, L.P. (NASDAQ: XTEX) (the Partnership) today announced an agreement with Contango Operators, Inc. to process gas from Contango’s Mary Rose gas field discoveries that successfully tested deep-shelf ...


Eni starts development of the Longhorn gas field located in the Gulf of Mexico deepwater

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Initial production is expected to begin in March 2009 with a gross peak production rate of 200 million cubic feet per day (approx. 35,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day) San ...


GE Compression Technology Selected to Increase Production of Depleted Gas Wells in Oman

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Contract Covers Several Projects Over Seven Years FLORENCE, ITALY - April 24, 2008 :- For more efficient extraction of gas from depleted wells in four of its gas fields, Petroleum Development ...


StatoilHydro: Gas discovery on the Halten Bank 

Monday, April 14th, 2008

StatoilHydro has made a large gas discovery in the Natalia prospect in the Norwegian Sea. According to preliminary calculations the discovery could contain around 1.5 billion cubic metres of recoverable ...


Gaz de France Group: Changes to the Natural Gas Tariff

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Today, the French Government requested the Energy Regulation Commission’s opinion on an average increase in the natural gas tariff of €0.264 per KWh. This would represent an average ...


New joint pipeline effort to bring Alaska gas to market

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Work to begin immediately on new joint pipeline effort to bring Alaska gas to market ANCHORAGE, April 8, 2008 - BP [NYSE: BP] and ConocoPhillips [NYSE: COP] today announced they have ...


Technip Awarded an Engineering Contract for the Shtokman Gas Project

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Technip (Paris:TEC) (ISIN:FR0000131708) has been awarded by Shtokman Development Company the lumpsum front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the onshore portion of the first phase of the Shtokman ...


RWE Dea starts offshore gas field development in North Idku

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

RWE Dea has signed a gas sales agreement with EGPC and EGAS for delivering natural gas to the Egyptian domestic market and immediately commenced the phased development of the discovered ...


Petrofac Awarded Jihar Gas Plant Project in Syria

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Petrofac, the international oil & gas facilities service provider, has received a letter of intent for the award of a Euros €291 million (US$454 million) lump-sum contract by the Hayan ...


Gas Discovery in Tanzania

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Aminex PLC (“Aminex”) announces a successful result from the drilling of Kiliwani North -1 (“KN-1”), offshore Tanzania in the Nyuni/East Songo-Songo licence area. KN-1 has intersected a substantial gas column ...


NIGERIA News: Gas update

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Government figures in Nigeria could be eyeing up a US$20 billion raid on energy companies. As much as 30 percent of the country's gas production may be set aside for ...


Chevron Announces Green Light for Multi-Billion Dollar Gas Project in Thailand

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Platong Gas II to add 420 million cubic feet of natural gas per day processing capacity BANGKOK, Thailand & SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) today announced that the company and ...


UOP to Establish Natural Gas Processing Design and Operations Center in Malaysia

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

DES PLAINES, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE:HON) company, announced today that it will establish a natural gas processing design center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to better support the Southeast ...


Afren signs Production Sharing Contracts for two licences in the gas rich Anambra Basin in Nigeria

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

London, 3 March 2008 - Afren plc ("Afren" or “the Company”) announces that, as part of its strategy to aggregate and commercialise stranded gas assets in Nigeria, the Company has signed ...


Industrial Nanotech, Inc. Announces Commencement of Project at GASCO Gas Processing Plant in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced the commencement of an initial application today of the company’s patented Nansulate® coatings by Abu Dhabi ...


Reliance Strikes Eighth Gas Discovery in Block NEC – 25 in the Mahanadi Basin

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Mumbai, February 26, 2008: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is pleased to announce yet another gas discovery in NEC-OSN 97/2 (NEC-25) block located in the NEC-Mahanadi offshore basin, off the Orissa ...


First Reserve Corporation to Acquire CHC Helicopter Corporation For Canadian $3.7 Billion in Largest-Ever Oilfield Services Buyout

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Partnership to Help Strengthen CHC’s Growth Mission as Largest Helicopter Services Company   Greenwich, Conn.; Houston; London and Vancouver -- February 22, 2008 -- CHC Helicopter Corporation (“CHC”) (TSX: FLY.A and FLY.B ...