News from Canada and North America
A brief round up of refinery and oilsands news from Canada and North America.
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A brief round up of refinery and oilsands news from Canada and North America.
Weatherford International Ltd has announced its participation in a collaborative project to develop a fibre optics based in-well distributed acoustic flowmeter based on the revolutionary iDAS™ technology, developed by Silixa.
Qatar has agreed to supply an additional 4 million tpa of LNG to India by 2014.
Bill Gates’ firm Terra Firma is in talks with Toshiba to develop the next generation of mini nuclear power plant.
Woodside Energy Ltd has selected Mustang to provide the independent assessment and verification of readiness for one of the world’s heaviest open water floatover installations, the North Rankin B (NRB) platform topsides, to be located on the North West Shelf of Australia.
The Indonesian government is looking for South Korean investors to back three new floating LNG terminals.
Australia’s Arrow Energy has accepted an improved takeover bid from Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina worth a reported AU$ 3.44 billion (US$ 3.14 billion). The takeover is subject to approval by Arrow shareholders and Australian authorities.
Total has announced the launch of the Laggan and Tormore gas fields development in the offshore frontier region of the West of Shetland, subject to the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change approval.
Explorers from the Nord Stream consortium have discovered twelve shipwrecks off the coast of Sweden.
A fundraising initiative launched by Mark Elliott, a well-known figure in the oil and gas industry, seeks to raise £1 million for two military charities, as he commits to losing 30 lbs of weight by June 2010.
Sharecat Solutions has secured a contract from China Oilfield Services subsidiary COSL Drilling Europe AS to support the spares management activity for its newbuild project at Yantai Raffles Shipyard.
Legislation to cap liability payouts in the event of a nuclear disaster has been pulled by India’s coalition government.