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volume 13, Issue #13,  Monday, July 21, 2008

• Shell delays Alaska drilling plan due to legal dispute
• Oil after all lies behind all the lies
• StatoilHydro to sell stakes in US Gulf
• Transocean lands $ 1 bn renewal contract with BP
• Deepwater oil fields are a final frontier
• BP's Thunder Horse platform on schedule to be online by year-end
• TMK buys IPSCO’s US assets for $ 1.25 bn
• Demand for marketers in US rises along with natural gas prices
• Suncor to expand Canada's largest ethanol plant
• West Hawk and Petrobras sign MoU for Figure Four Gas Project
• Nova Scotia approves MapleLNG project
• First tanker sails from Varandey to America
• Halliburton enters agreement to acquire 100 % of WellDynamics
• Pioneer starts up Oooguruk production in Alaska
• Duke Energy to invest $ 100 mm in North Carolina's solar power
• Mitsui and Petrobras to join US oil shale project
• Piedmont to build LNG storage plant in North Carolina
• Ottawa awards BP exploration permits in Beaufort Sea

volume 13, Issue #12,  Tuesday, July 01, 2008

• Gazprom seeks participation in Alaskan gas pipeline project
• Hess successfully completes appraisal well at Pony discovery
• RWE acquires 50 % stake in Excelerate Energy
• US unable to paralyze Iran's oil and gas sector
• Vestas receives 500 MW wind order
• Ivanhoe Energy to buy Talisman's oil sands assets for $ 105 mm
• Californian biofuel venture unveils renewable gasoline
• Global demand is squeezing natural gas supply for US
• BP finds shortcut through Panama pipeline to US West Coast refineries
• Shell's ultra-deep Perdido Spar sets sail
• Machine can produce ethanol at American homes

volume 13, Issue #11,  Monday, June 16, 2008

• British Columbia attracts single-sale record at May oil and gas lease
• Continental Resources completes tests in Bakken and Sanish formations
• ExxonMobil sues Alaska over oil leases
• Tesoro strikes deal to ship delayed petroleum coke to China
• Oil shale debate becomes a "chicken-or-the-egg" question
• Mesa Power places world's largest single-site wind turbine purchase order
• Iberdrola to invest $ 8 bn in US renewable energy until 2010
• Gazprom to join Rabaska partners
• Sempra's West Coast LNG terminal ready for business
• US moves against firms tied to Belarus petrochemical conglomerate
• Gas deposit in Arkansas lures hedge funds
• Japan's JGC launches oil and gas exploration in US
• Magellan to build products line from Port Arthur refineries
• TransCanada signs contract to generate power for Arizona
• US probes oil industry payments in Nigeria

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