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volume 14, Issue #9,  Thursday, June 18, 2009

• Vietnam to invest in Long Phu Electricity Centre
• Santos plans A$ 1.5 bn oil exploration investment in 2009
• ONGC adds 284 mm ton of oil and gas reserves in 2008-09
• Mitsubishi to build 740 MW gas fired plant in North Jakarta
• CNOOC to invest in coal-to-gas enterprise
• India's strategic East-West gas pipeline
• Indonesia awards new exploration blocks
• China aims to eliminate small refining units by 2011
• Pertamina plans to invest $ 2 bn to boost upstream operations
• Thailand looks for gas sources in Indonesian waters
• Australia's North West Shelf venture finds alternative LNG cargo buyers
• GAIL to supply natural gas to Karnataka from Dabhol
• Total and Inpex launch offshore FEED for Australian LNG project
• Companies to invest $ 190 mm in Indonesian oil and gas blocks
• Shell, Petron and Caltex ordered to open books on Philippines business
• Japan and China race for African oil
• India's IOC to shut down Panipat refinery
• Manas Petroleum signs PSA for onshore Mongolia block
• PetroChina's income tumbles as crude oil prices fall
• Mitsubishi-led LNG project in Indonesia may be shelved
• PetroChina to raise storage capacity for Russian oil
• GAIL to establish city gas distribution projects
• Chinese oil majors see higher profits at higher demand
• India reports on March oil output
• OMV starts well test at Tajjal field in Pakistan
• Bangladesh shuts down CUFL to divert gas supply to power plants
• NHPC to expand into India's thermal power sector
• Kuwait committed to joint venture with Japan in Vietnam refinery
• Tokyo Gas to build record size LNG tank
• China agrees to buy LNG from Exxon's Papua New Guinea venture
• Talisman to invest $ 1.1 bn in Vietnam oil fields
• Thang Long to develop two fields offshore Vietnam
• GAIL plans pipeline from Andhra to Madhya Pradesh
• Indian PowerGrid looks for investment to fund national grid projects
• Oil Search and partners sign natural gas deal with Papua New Guinea
• Three pipelines of CNPC to ensure gas supply to Hunan
• ONGC to spend $ 1.3 bn to maintain output at aging fields
• Kazakhstan excludes refinery from deal with China
• StatoilHydro and CNOOC to shut down Lufeng oil field in South China Sea

volume 14, Issue #8,  Tuesday, May 26, 2009

• India's PowerGrid announces investment plan
• Bangladesh makes move to ascertain actual gas reserve in five fields
• China loans $ 10 bn to Kazakhstan
• Reliance gives up Jamnagar refinery's export status
• Pacific Trails pipeline to carry Canadian gas to markets in Asia
• New gas project planned for Papua New Guinea
• KEPCO feels the crunch of Koreans using less power
• Bangladesh in a stalemate situation in exploration for petroleum
• Australia awards 13 new exploration permits off northwest coast
• Hyundai to build underground oil storage facility in Singapore
• JSW Energy unveils investment plan in India's power sector
• Shell defers CTL venture with Shenhua
• RIL and GAIL to lay pipeline for Krishna Godavari gas
• GAIL wins Oil and Gas Transportation Company award
• PetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield to enlarge crude storage capacity
• Vietnam still faces power shortage in dry season
• JOGMEC and PdVSA sign MoU
• Vietnam's Military Bank to provide loans to PetroVietnam
• India approves KG gas output to power companies
• RIL set to enter fuel retailing in US and Europe
• Vopak to build large tank farm in China by 2011
• Talisman starts oil output from south-east Asian field
• Vietnam's PVN produces 4.36 mm tons of oil in the first quarter
• India launches its biggest auction of oil and gas fields
• India's PowerGrid to borrow $ 2 bn from World Bank and ADB
• NIORDC to participate in refinery projects in Malaysia, Indonesia and Syria
• NHPC to develop power projects in India's north-eastern region
• PTC India sanctions Rs 721 crore to power sector during 2008-09
• Bosicor to invest in Pakistan's oil industry

volume 14, Issue #7,  Wednesday, May 13, 2009

• GAIL and GSPC keen on building KG basin gas pipeline
• PetroVietnam exploits 6.43 mm tons of equivalent oil in first quarter
• Daewoo International buys gas field in Myanmar
• RIL to invest $ 5.9 bn in 9 discoveries in KG-D6 block
• Russia cancels refinery order with South Korean engineering firm
• CNPC keen to sign MoU with Bangladesh on oil and gas exploration
• PetroChina to invest in another Shaanxi-Beijing pipeline
• Sinopec to expand capex in 2009
• PetroChina puts Lanzhou-Zhengzhou oil pipeline into operation
• Talisman starts up oil production offshore Malaysia
• Indian orders for Chinese power equipment total $ 7 bn
• Public sector oil firms to help Indian economy by investments
• Sinopec's Fujian project to be operational in June
• RIL, gas and dodgy estimates
• Gas bounty headed for India's Bengal in 2012
• Bangladesh gives go ahead for offshore bidding round outcome
• GAIL plans to invest in CNG stations
• India's Dabhol gas terminal to go on stream
• Indonesia's Bakrie & Brothers to build gas pipeline
• AWE to expand into oil exploration off Vietnam

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