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CEDIGAZ NEWS REPORT - Vol 51, N° 1, January 26, 2012 - Contents
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
Supplies- Imports Export
* Cheniere signed a LNG sale and purchase agreement with GAIL (India) Limited under which GAIL has agreed to purchase approximately 3.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG.
* ConocoPhillips liquefied natural gas plant in Nikiski, located in Alaska, will resume exports in 2012.
Storage
* Excelerate Energy executed an agreement with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to undertake the development and permitting of a floating offshore LNG regasification facility off the southern coast of the country.
NATURAL GAS
Production
* Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board issued a decision decreeing that 691 natural gas wells in the Athabasca oil sands area must be shut.
* Danish natural gas production should total 5.6 billion normal cubic meters in 2011, a 21% decline from 2010.
* Iran said that it would launch full-scale unilateral development of the offshore Arash gas field in the Gulf if Kuwait does not respond to its offer of joint development.
* Total announced it has taken, together with Novatek, the final investment decision to develop the Termokarstovoye gas and condensates field.
* Repsol YPF and ENI signed a deal with PDVSA to develop Perla field in Venezuela.
Transportation - Distribution
* The Galsi natural gas pipeline connecting Algeria to Italy via Sardinia will not be online before 2015.
* The Bulgarian Ministry for Energy announced that the construction process of the Greek-Bulgarian interconnector pipeline will commence by March 2012.
* Turkey issued permits to Gazprom for its South Stream natural gas pipeline to be built under Turkish territorial waters
* The starting ceremony of Uzbekistan section of Central Asian Gas Pipeline Line C was held at Gazli, 110 kilometers away from Bukhara.
Supplies- Imports Export
* Colombia and Chevron Corp. agreed to continue exporting natural gas to Venezuela for two-and-a-half years more.
Storage
* Naftogaz Ukrainy is studying the possibility of leasing underground gas storage facilities to companies that will produce gas in Ukraine.
U-Gas NEWS REPORT N° 64, January 2012 - Contents
Coalbed methane
CHINA: Regulation.
INDONESIA: Planned project Blocks auction.
CHINA: Planned project Drilling campaign.
CHINA: Production forecast Proven reserves.
CHINA: Planned project - Approval.
INDIA: Production forecast.
CHINA: Proven reserves.
Shale Gas
ARGENTINA: Planned project - Partnership.
AUSTRALIA: Drilling campaign.
CHINA: Production forecast.
EUROPE: Development forecast.
INDIA: Planned project Blocks auction.
OMAN: Planned project Drilling campaign.
POLAND: Regulation.
POLAND: Potential resources.
POLAND: Drilling campaign.
UNITED STATES: Regulation.
UNITED STATES: Regulation.
CEDIGAZ NEWS REPORT - Vol 50, N° 18, December 22, 2011 - Contents
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
Processing
* Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC and Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals, Inc. entered into a lump sum turnkey contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of the first two liquefaction trains.
Supplies- Imports Export
* Inpex secured sale agreements with Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tokyo Gas, Kansai Electric Power Company, Osaka Gas and Kyushu Electric Power Company for the supply of four million tonnes of LNG per annum over 15 years from Australias Ichthys project.
* Australia Pacific LNG Pty Ltd and China Petrochemical Corporation signed a Heads of Agreement establishing non-binding key commercial terms for the sale and purchase of an additional 3.3 million tonnes per annum of LNG through to 2035.
* GDF SUEZ and Petronet LNG Limited signed an agreement extending along 2012 under which GDF SUEZ will sell Petronet about 0.6 million tons of liquefied natural gas.
* Partners in Papua New Guinea's Liquid Niugini Gas liquefaction project signed recently a heads of agreement to supply China's ENN Energy Trading with 1 million-1.5 million mt/year of LNG.
* Qatargas inked a sales and purchase agreement with Chubu Electric Power Company and Shizuoka Gas Company for the supply of 0.2 million tons per annum of LNG.
* Taiwans CPC Corporation signed a 20-year contract with RasGas to buy 1.5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year.
* The U.S. Department of Energy granted recently a 30-year license for Jordan Cove Energy to export 9 million metric tons of LNG per year.
Storage
* Ukraine postponed the construction of a liquefied natural gas terminal due to a lack of funding.
NATURAL GAS
Production
* Woodside Petroleum approved the development of the Greater Western Flank Phase 1 gas project off the Australian coast
* Repsol reaffirmed the commitment to develop Caipipendi area and to triple natural gas production capacity by 2012 in Bolivia.
* Petroleos Mexicanos announced that the Nen 1 deep water exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico found a deposit estimated to hold 400 billion cubic feet of gas.
* Gazprom commenced gas production from the Nydinskaya area in the Medvezhye field in Russia. The area is expected to reach the projected output of 2.3 billion cubic meters of gas and over 5 thousand tons of gas condensate per annum.
Reserves
* Irans oil minister announced discovery of a gas field containing an estimated 50 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Caspian Sea.
Transportation - Distribution
* Mexican President outlined the Strategy for Structural Change in the Natural Gas Market, which involves construction of nearly 4,500 km of natural gas pipelines over the next few years.
Supplies- Imports Export
* Kazakhstan agreed on an extra 10 million cubic metres delivery of gas to Kyrgyzstan.
* Polands PKN Orlen will import about 90 million cubic metres of natural gas from Germany in 2012.
U-Gas NEWS REPORT N° 63, December 2011 - Contents
Coalbed methane
AUSTRALIA: Reserves estimates.
AUSTRALIA: Regulation.
CHINA: Production - Agreement.
INDONESIA: Production Agreement.
Shale Gas
CANADA: Planned project - Acquisition.
CHINA: Discovery.
INDIA: Planned project Bid round.
LITHUANIA: Planned project Bid round.
POLAND: Discovery.
POLAND: Resources estimates.
ROMANIA: Regulation.
SOUTH AFRICA: Exploration.
UNITED KINGDOM: Resources potential.
UNITED STATES: Planned project - Regulation.
POLAND: Ongoing project Drilling campaign.
POLAND: Production forecast.
UKRAINE: Production forecast.
UNITED STATES: Production forecast.
WORLD: Production forecast.
MEXICO: Resources estimates.
POLAND: Reserves estimates.
UKRAINE: Resources potential.
Tight Gas
PAKISTAN: Resources estimates.
Gas Hydrate
CHINA: Ongoing project - Exploration.
INDIA: Exploration.
CEDIGAZ NEWS REPORT - Vol 50, N° 17, December 6, 2011 - Contents
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
Supplies- Imports Export
* GDF SUEZ and Petronet LNG signed a liquefied natural gas agreement extending over 2012.
* Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp, said that Japan's LNG demand will grow by 20 million tonnes in 2012.
* Cheniere Energy Partners entered into a liquefied natural gas sale and purchase agreement with Gas Natural Aprovisionamientos, a subsidiary of Gas Natural Fenosa.
Storage
* China National Offshore Oil Corp will build the first floating liquefied natural gas facility. The project would be able receive 2.2 million tonnes of the fuel per year.
NATURAL GAS
Production
* Repsol expects production from Bolivia's Margarita natural gas fields swelling to 14 million cubic meters per day by 2014.
* Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering signed an agreement to develop Israel's Tamar natural gas field.
Reserves
* Cove Energy upgraded recently its gas reserves in the Rovuma Basin, offshore Mozambique. Recoverable resource ranges are now estimated to be 15 to 30-plus trillion cubic feet of gas.
Processing
* Iraq signed a deal with Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Mitsubishi Corp. to capture and process flared gas from southern Iraqi oil fields.
Transportation - Distribution
* The final investment decision on the Nabucco gas pipeline project will be made in early 2013.
* Leaders of Germany and Russia inaugurated recently the Nord Stream pipeline which transports gas from Vyborg to Lubmin.
Supplies- Imports Export
* According to the projections made by oil ministry of India for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2013 to 2016-2017), current gas demand of 189 mmscmd is likely to rise to 473 mmscmd.
* Gazprom has taken control of Beltransgaz as part of a revised energy deal with Belarus.
Storage
* Gazprom started construction of the Bednodemyanovskoye underground gas storage facility.
* Serbia launched its first gas underground storage facility at Banatski Dvor.
U-Gas NEWS REPORT N° 62, November 2011 - Contents
Coalbed methane
BOTSWANA: Plannned project Partnership agreement.
AUSTRALIA: Planned project Production water.
FRANCE: Planned project Production test.
UNITED STATES: Ongoing project Field reactivation.
Shale Gas
BULGARIA: Planned project - Regulation.
CHINA: Planned project Blocks auction.
FRANCE: Regulation Permit withdrawal.
GREECE: Planned project Gas potential.
POLAND: Regulation.
POLAND: On going project Drilling campaign.
POLAND: Ongoing project - Update.
RUSSIA: Planned project Gas potential.
UNITED KINGDOM: Ongoing project - Tremor.
UNITED STATES: On going project - Technology.
UNITED STATES: Regulation.
UNITED STATES: Regulation Fracturation fluids.
POLAND: Ongoing project Drilling campaign.
UNITED STATES: Regulation Water demand.
UNITED STATES: Regulation Production water.
CHINA: Resources estimates.
MEXICO: Resources estimates.
Tight Gas
SLOVENIA: Planned project Production test.
OMAN: Planned project.
OMAN: Planned project Production forecast.
Gas Hydrate
UNITED STATES: Ongoing project Production test.
CEDIGAZ NEWS REPORT - Vol 50, N° 16, November 14, 2011 - Contents
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
Supplies- Imports Export
* PT PLN and PT Pertamina signed a heads of agreement on liquefied natural gas supply for PLNs power plants in eastern Indonesia.
* Japan's additional demand for LNG in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami and the resultant shutdown of nuclear power generation capacity, is expected be around 10 million-15 million mt/year.
* Rasgas, the Qatar based LNG producer will deliver 4.5 billion cubic metres of natural gas a year to EDF.
Storage
* GDF Suez will provide China National Offshore Oil Corporation Ltd. with a vessel to store and regasify liquefied natural gas offshore.
* The recently inaugurated Gulf LNG terminal at Pascagoula, Missouri, has a capacity of 5 million tonne/year.
NATURAL GAS
Production
* GDF Suez E&P Nederland started-up r gas production from the G16a-C offshore field, located in the Dutch continental shelf.
* The current average production of natural gas in Pakistan is 4,058 million cubic feet per day.
* The Barzan Gas Project will produce around 1.9 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas from Qatars Natural Resources in the North Field.
Reserves
* Nigeria's gas reserves have remained stagnant in the last six years.
Supplies- Imports Export
* Turkey and Azerbaijan signed agreements that would bring up to 6 billion cubic metres of natural gas to Turkey by 2017 and allow the transport of another 10 bcm via Turkey to Europe.
Storage
* A Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee report indicates that UK needs to double its gas storage capacity by 2020.
CEDIGAZ NEWS REPORT - Vol 50, N° 15, November 8, 2011 - Contents
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
Processing
* Pacific Rubiales wants to develop a liquefied natural gas export project on Colombia's Caribbean coast with an initial capacity of 70 million cubic feet per day.
Supplies- Imports Export
* Kuwait will import up to 42% more liquefied natural gas in 2011.
* The first liquefied natural gas import project of 400-500 million cubic feet is signed between Overseas Private Investment Corporation and Pakistan Gasport Limited.
Storage
* YPF plans to build a liquefied natural gas terminal and regasification plant in the Argentine port city of Bahia Blanca.
* Minister of Economic Affairs said that Taiwan's gas-fuelled power generation capacity will increase 67% by 2030.
NATURAL GAS
Production
* Total signed with Novatek the final agreements to jointly develop the Yamal LNG project with a 20% share.
Reserves
* Videocon Industries and Bharat Petroleum Corp said that the gas discovery they made off Mozambique may hold at least 10 trillion cubic feet of reserves.
Transportation Distribution
* Gaz System said that it received five applications for access to the Polish leg of the Yamal natural gas pipeline.
Supplies- Imports Export
* Deputy Prime Minister Omurbek Babanov said that Kazakhstan has agreed to sell natural gas to Kyrgyzstan.
* The Turkish state gas pipeline operator Botas informed Gazprom that it will end its contract for the delivery of natural gas.
Storage
* Regulatory Commission approved the application of Tricor Ten Section Hub, LLC to construct and operate a new underground natural gas storage project near Bakersfield.
U-Gas NEWS REPORT N° 52, January 2011 - Contents
Coalbed Methane and Coal Seam Gas
AUSTRALIA: Environment.
CHINA: Supply contract.
INDIA: Memorandum of Understanding.
NEW ZEALAND: Planned project Approval.
UKRAINE: Joint Venture.
CHINA: Acquisition.
Shale Gas
ARGENTINA: Exploration New Play.
CHINA: Exploration New Play.
INDIA: Exploration New Play.
INDIA: Exploration - Regulation.
POLAND: Exploration New Play.
POLAND: Exploration New Play.
UNITED STATES: Environment - Regulation.
Tight Gas
PAKISTAN: Joint Venture.
UKRAINE: Exploration.
CEDIGAZ NEWS REPORT - Vol 50, N° 1, January 13, 2011 - Contents
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
Supplies- Imports Exports
Tokyo Electric Power has been negotiating with Brunei to extend an LNG sale and purchase contract that is due to expire March 31, 2013.
Storage
Sempra Energy's LNG subsidiary postponed by at least a year a planned expansion of its Cameron LNG import terminal.
NATURAL GAS
Exploration - Discovery
Noble Energy, Inc. announced a gas discovery at the Leviathan exploration prospect offshore Israel. The results from the well confirm the pre-drill estimated resource range of 450 billion cubic meters.
Production
China National Offshore Oil Corp expects gas and oil output to exceed 200 million metric tons of oil equivalent by 2020, including 50 million tons of liquefied natural gas -***- Dana Gas production in Egypt increased 20 percent in 2010.
Processing
Petrofac started work on the second phase of the South Yolotan gas project for Turkmengaz.
Transportation - Distribution
The National Energy Board approved the applications for the construction and operation of the Mackenzie Gas Project through Canada's North -***- The Egyptian gas would reach Turkey via Syria at the beginning of 2011 through the four outlets of the Arab Gas Pipeline.
Supplies- Imports Exports
State Oil Company of Azerbaijan plans to sign a series of agreements with Turkey on the sale and transit of natural gas -***- From 2012 to 2030, Wingas will supply up to a billion cubic meters of natural gas a year to Dutch company Eneco -***- In USA, Energy Information Agency published its Natural Gas Annual, 2009 -***- Gazprom and Uzbekneftegaz, signed a gas purchase contracts for 2011-2012 and an agreement for gas transmission.
Storage
Fluxys and Gazprom Export will study the options for Gazprom Export to reserve long-term storage capacity at the underground storage site in Loenhout in Belgium -***- The Origin/Contact Energy consortium has been granted permission to proceed to fully commissioning the Ahuroa underground gas storage facility in New Zealand.
Contact:
Thierry ROUAUD
E-Mail : thierry.rouaud@cedigaz.org
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