Business news

LNG terminal on Croatia’s Adriatic coast finally receives environmental approval.

A brief round up of refinery and oilsands news from Canada and North America.

The NPRA has opened its 108th Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona

Pakistan and Iran have signed an agreement finalising the plans to construct a natural gas pipeline between the two countries.

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.

2010 is hopefully going to be a more productive year for the offshore sector with analysts expecting oil and gas production to return to more healthy levels during the course of the year.

Leading oil and gas executives from the APAC region meet to discuss ways of competing with production from the MENA region.

The Nigerian military plans to increase pipeline security measures after the NNPC estimates N175 billion loss from vandalism.

Alistair Birnie discusses the operational potential of the UK subsea industry and its future after North Sea supplies decline.

Westside Corp. has announced a joint venture with Mitsui & Co. to develop the Dawson Seamgas fields.

A roundup of recent contract, refinery and purchasing news from the Americas.

Dr. Robert M. Cutler discusses developments in Eurasian gas pipelines in 2009, with a focus on Turkmenistan’s gas reserves and current pipeline projects in the region.

New research from Douglas-Westwood predicts a global deepwater expenditure of US$ 167 billion between 2010 and 2014 - up 37% on the preceding five years.

The European Union has assigned €2.3 billion of its €4 billion unspent budget to 12 electricity and 31 gas pipeline projects.