International

Extensive plans to shift Oman’s oil export capacity from the crowded Gulf waterways moving ahead, led by the newly formed Oman Tank Terminal Company will build, own and operate a huge storage facility on the eastern coast.

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Gazprom Gets Green Light For Vladivostok LNG Plant

Gazprom’s Management Committee has approved the investment rationale for a new LNG plant near Vladivostok in the far east of Russia.

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Statoil Doles Out Contracts For Polarled Gas Pipeline In North Sea

Statoil has awarded three contracts for the long-distance Polarled gas pipeline in the Norwegian Sea. Total value is about $720 million.

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Bulgaria Continues To Snub Proposed Oil Pipeline

Bulgaria's Parliament denounced again the trilateral agreement for construction of the Burgas-Alexandoupolis oil pipeline.

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Russia, China Talks On Natural Gas Proceeding

Gazprom and the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) have agreed to conclude talks on the long-stalled Russo-Chinese natural gas deal by year’s end.

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Kenya Looking To New Pipelines

Kenya relies on imported fuel as there is no local production. It relies on an existing 14-inch pipeline that runs from Mombasa to Eldoret and has been in use since 1978.

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Refined Products Pipeline Planned In Oman

Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) plan to construct a 173-mile pipeline to connect the Sohar and Muscat refineries. If built, it will eliminate the need to ship refined products from Sohar to Muscat and then truck them through the city, as is done today.

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Qatar Reports Major Gas Find

Qatari officials reported a gas discovery in Block-4N has been made after four years of intensive exploration activities, including the drilling of two exploration wells.

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ICC Seeks Permit To Construct Brody-Plock Pipeline

Sarmatia International Pipeline Company (ICC) of Warsaw, Poland has filed for an environmental permit for the construction of the Brody-Plock (Adamova Zastava) pipeline with a possible extension to Gdansk or the West.

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Gazprom Expanding Presence In NGV Fuel Market

Gazprom will build 17 CNG filling stations in 10 Russian regions this year, is a sign of the growing global interest in using natural gas as a transport fuel.

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