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Oil and Gas News



SOURCE: Dow Jones Newswires | 18 May 2012

Colombia will increase natural gas shipments to Venezuela by some 50% later this year, Colombian Energy Minister Mauricio Cardenas said Friday.

SOURCE: Dow Jones Newswires | 18 May 2012

Oilfield services company FTS International said Friday it has agreed to establish its first international joint venture with a Saudi Arabian company to provide services in that country and Oman.

SOURCE: Dow Jones Newswires | 17 May 2012

Cairn Energy PLC said Thursday it has teamed up with Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp. to jointly bid for oil and gas exploration rights in Cyprus, where huge offshore discoveries of natural gas have reignited international tensions over the divided island.

SOURCE: Dow Jones Newswires | 17 May 2012

Iraq may be forced to cut its ambitious oil production targets by as much as 40%, despite recently boosting output to pre-Gulf War levels, a senior Royal Dutch Shell PLC executive said Thursday.

SOURCE: John Wood Group PLC | 17 May 2012

JP Kenny Norway has signed a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract with Norske Shell for the high temperature, high pressure Linnorm project in Norway. Valued at approximately US$9 million (NOK 55 million), this contract forms part of a global Enterprise Frame Agreement awarded to Wood Group Kenny earlier this year by Shell Global Solutions International BV.

SOURCE: Dow Jones Newswires | 17 May 2012

The need to develop unconventional sources of gas, such as coal seam gas, is increasingly important to meet the rising demand from Asia and an expected surge in gas-fired power stations over the coming decades, an executive at U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil Corp. said Thursday.

SOURCE: Dow Jones Newswires | 17 May 2012

Enbridge Inc. said Wednesday it's moving ahead with C$3.2 billion (US$3.2 billion) in pipeline expansions, mostly to send more crude oil from Canada and North Dakota to the Midwest and eastern Canada.

SOURCE: Boulting Group | 16 May 2012

Boulting Group Ltd, of Warrington, has had its approach to the prevention of accidents and ill health recognised in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2012.

SOURCE: Statoil | 16 May 2012

Statoil transfers operatorship of the Vilje field in the North Sea to Marathon Oil Norge. The agreement does not involve any change of stakes in the production licence (PL 036D).

SOURCE: BG Group | 16 May 2012

BG Group today announced its fifth consecutive Tanzania gas discovery with the Mzia-1 exploration well located in Block 1, offshore southern Tanzania.