Business news - 01 May 2014

Ceona’s fully-owned pipelay and heavy subsea construction vessel, the Ceona Amazon, has successfully floated at Crist yard in Poland.

Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. is set to acquire Susser Holdings Corporation for around US$ 1.8 billion as part of a multi-step action plan for its overall retail business.

Extracts from the keynote address given by API President at the US News Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Solutions National Leadership Conference.

OAO Gazprom has issued its audited consolidated financial statements for the year 2013, posting a 12% increase in net sales compared to 2012.

Hunter and Nanometrics will develop an induced seismic and microseismic monitoring application via satellite for oil and gas drilling sites.

Gazprom and the Kyrgyzstan’s government have met to discuss further co-operation in the oil and gas sector.

ICA Fluor to construct a US$ 743 million gas pipeline through the states of San Luis Potosí, Querétaro and Guanajuato in Mexico.

Trelleborg is set to launch a consolidated high performance insulation materials portfolio at OTC 2014

OMV signs a Memorandum of Intent to implement the South Stream project in Austria.

Saipem has been awarded a US$ 1.8 billion contract for work on BP's Shah Deniz 2 gas field.

DNV GL initiates JIP for wet gas sales allocation and invites E&P companies and ultrasonic flowmeter manufacturers to join.

Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) will sign a contract for pipeline gas supply from Russia to China via the eastern route in May.