
API on oil and gas industry taxes
American Petroleum Institute has launched a campaign against punitive taxes on the industry.
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American Petroleum Institute has launched a campaign against punitive taxes on the industry.

Fugro OSAE GmbH has been awarded a €2.3 million hydrographic survey contract by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS).

Nexans has been awarded a contract by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. to design, manufacture and supply a total of 138,000 ft (42km) of power umbilicals and terminations for the Jack and St. Malo fields in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

McDermott International, Inc. has won an EPCI project for Oil and National Gas Corporation Ltd.’s (ONGC) Cluster 7 Development Programme.

WellDog has won a tender to provide hundreds of downhole pressure gauge systems to Arrow Energy Pty Ltd over the next two years.

Protesters are said to have scaled a drilling rig at Cuadrilla resource’s Bank site to protest at the shale gas exploration in the area.

Statoil has brought its LNG plant at Hammer fest back online after an earlier shutdown on October 14.

An Alberta court has fined Statoil C$ 190,000 for improper use of water in its Alberta oilsands operation.

RasGas has signed a long-term LNG supply agreement with EDF Trading for an annual contract quantity of up to 3.4 million tpy of LNG, equivalent to approximately 4.5 billion m3/yr of natural gas. It marks a further extension of a long-term relationship between RasGas and EDF Trading.

State-owned Israel Natural Gas Lines has reportedly signed a deal with Micoperi, the Italian marine contractor, to construct an offshore LNG terminal worth approximately US$ 140 million.

Gérard Mestrallet, Chairman and CEO of GDF SUEZ signed two agreements with China Investment Corporation (CIC) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) illustrating the development strategy of GDF SUEZ in China and in the Asia-Pacific region.

OAO Gazprom, and of BASF SE have signed a framework agreement which sets out the terms for the planned asset swap to further expand the successful cooperation.