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

• Transocean to operate drillship for Mitsui and Petrobras
• Australia's gas crisis questions must be answered
• Sinopec makes breakthrough in technology of difficult-to-produce reserves
• Queensland Gas expects to find 80 % increase in coal seam gas reserves
• India's natural gas production expected to jump two-fold by 2011-12
• Race for hybrid heavy machines heats up as oil price rises
• Asian refiners cut West African imports on profit drop
• AED and Sinopec sign Australian joint venture
• J. Ray McDermott signs joint venture agreement in China
• Rostechnologies to launch production of biofuels in Vietnam
• India and Burma object to Petrobangla's exploration near maritime borders
• Total reaches LNG deal with CNOOC
• Uzbekistan-China gas pipeline construction to start beginning of H2 2008
• Petronas awards Malaysian block to Newfield, Mitsubishi and Carigali
• The bear and the dragon in Africa
• Sinopec starts operation at 10-mm-ton Qingdao refinery
• Asian demand is boosting development of Australian LNG plants
• Samsung to build deepwater field development ship for Saipem
• New Zealand to investigate into petrol pump prices
• Iran and Malaysia sign oil deal
• Bangladesh Petroleum faces losses at $ 2.5 bn in 2008-09
• High Court challenges Bangladesh for inviting offshore block bids
• QIB and Gulf Petroleum sign MoU for Malaysian project
• Bangladesh takes up plan to expand gas supply
• Sasol and Shenhua to jointly produce motor fuel from coal in China in 2016
• Sinopec adds 100 mm tons to domestic crude-oil reserves
• Reliance to sell gas in India at an 80-% discount to global prices
• PetroChina to build refinery in Huludao
• Reliance to reduce oil price for India by one fifth
• RIL to become India's single largest gas producer
• CNOOC unit to build coal-methanol project in Inner Mongolia
• IOC plans mini liquefaction plants to exploit gas from marginal fields
• China stumbles in forging Russian gas deals
• Sinopec takes steps to guarantee domestic oil supply
• PetroVietnam launches company to train refinery workers
• CNPC signs strategic partnership agreement with CECIC
• Sevan secures options with Cosco to build six drilling units
• Nippon Oil boosting oil and natural gas exploration overseas
• ENI receives development approval for Kitan oil field in Timor Sea
• Punj Lloyd to upgrade refinery for IOC
• Formosa Plastics plans refinery in Vietnam
• Petronas expects global oil demand to stay at 87.5 mm bpd in 2008
• ONGC to hire Sevan for building of deepwater rig
• CNPC and Uzbekneftegaz to form joint venture to develop Mingbulak field
• Shell completes Pohokura field development offshore New Zealand

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

• Seventeen companies bid to tap Indonesia's geothermal potential
• Cairn India gets oil and gas exploration license from Sri Lanka
• Rosneft studying oil refinery purchases in Asia and Europe
• Saudi Aramco to boost capacity at Chinese refinery
• China's refinery utilization falls
• CNPC bundles refineries into oil deals
• Shell Malaysia to invest about RM 10 bn in next five years
• Petronas sues India's Adani Energy over LNG dispute
• Hoegh LNG awards FPSO FEED contract to CB&I & Daewoo
• Chinese plant to rely on underground coal gasification
• ONGC’s Iran block may be LNG source for Mangalore terminal
• ENI wins West Timor exploration block
• Inpex to invest $ 14.5 bn in Masela Block in Timor Sea
• SBM wins FPSO order for North West Shelf Venture
• Essar Oil announces start-up of Vadinar refinery in Gujarat
• Keppel FELS to build sixth ultra-deepwater semisubmersible for ENSCO
• Hainan to invest Yuan 2.2 bn in construction of Haikou power grid
• Sinopec starts commercial production at Qingdao refinery
• Sinopec to halt oil products exports and raise output
• Petronas to acquire 40 % of Australian LNG project
• CNPC and Daewoo solidify joint exploration project in Myanmar
• Indonesia offers 25 oil and gas blocks to lure investment
• Gazprom and Kogas plan working group for gas supplies to South Korea
• Sinopec to build China's largest refining and petrochemical integrated unit
• BHEL to set up power plant in Punjab
• OIL signs exploration deal with Polish company GT
• Sinopec to build ethylene joint venture with SK Energy
• LNG project expected to underpin Papua New Guinea's economy
• Six counties of Yudong to build natural gas transmission pipelines
• Korea Electric plans to buy fourteen coal-fired power plants in China
• Cuba interested in Indian business opportunities
• Moscow and Beijing agree on pipeline spur construction

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

• Vietnam's president hails Gazprom’s cooperation
• Indonesia hands out five oil and gas blocks
• Gazprom to develop four new sites in Vietnam
• China becomes Rosneft's biggest oil importer in 2007
• GAIL to sign gas pipeline deal with India's Jammu and Kashmir
• Total joins Petronas in exploration efforts offshore Malaysia
• Esso joint venture signs gas agreement for PNG LNG Project
• RIL hands over three blocks in Kerala-Konkan basin
• India and Egypt focus on expanding energy ties
• Technip-Chiyoda-Fluor venture wins contracts from Woodside
• Vietnam issues license to new oil refinery
• Siemens to build South Korean power plant
• China drops Russian oil deal after boost from Middle East
• ONGC's subsidy bill to top $ 5.16 bn in 2007-08
• China to initiate second DME project in Guangzhou
• Oil and gas output of ONGC expected to fall by 2012
• US Ocean Power Technologies to build wave power plant in Australia
• ONGC terminates pipeline contract with Ramunia
• Serica carries out production tests offshore Sumatra
• China turns factory into greener power generation plant
• Cairn to launch oil and gas exploration in India's Raj's Hadauti region
• China Power New Energy plans to meet new capacity targets
• Larsen and PetroProd I sign lease for FPSO
• Gazprom extends Korean supply deal
• Pertamina to upgrade refinery
• Chinese enterprise to start first wind power generation project in Pakistan
• Samsung wins order for two LNG ships from BG
• RIL seeks partners for deepwater blocks
• Chinese firm achieves new coal-to-oil technology
• PetroChina reshuffles management
• Daqing Oilfield makes breakthrough in vulcanite gas reserves exploration
• ONGC sets up pilot plant to extract helium
• PetroChina accelerating alternative energy exploration projects
• Brahmaputra river seismic survey should get priority for people's interest
• PetroChina targets 2010 capacity of 5 bn cm at Mahe gas field
• IPI and TAPI to change the economics of South Asia
• Thirteen new oil fields to help secure Indonesia's output target
• Total acquires interest in three licenses offshore Australia
• Japan's JGC launches oil and gas exploration in US
• Alaska's politicians find natural gas customers in Far East
• Ashmore Group to buy Saudi Aramco's stake in Petron
• Bangladesh tells Tata it has no gas to spare for steel plants
• Hinduja to set up refinery in India's Andhra Pradesh state
• ONGC puts retail foray on hold
• Venezuela and China to create joint venture to supply new refinery
• ONGC board approves investment proposals
• Shaanxi to invest yuan 1 bn into Yulin power network construction
• Australia awards nine offshore permits

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