Having trouble viewing this newsletter? View online at http://newsletters.pennnet.com/ogj/40805012.html
To receive Oil & Gas Journal Drilling Report newsletters in your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add news@ogjo-media.com to your address book.
Oil & Gas Journal Daily Update
Oil & Gas Journal Daily Update
Oil & Gas Journal Daily Update
Oil & Gas Journal Daily Update
Oil & Gas Journal Daily Update


March 9, 2009

SITE SEARCH:
Advanced






PennEnergyJOBS
Job Quick Search
Geophysics Manager
Houston/Greenspoint, TX Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC Fri, 06 Mar...

Reservoir Engineer Sr.
Houston/Greenspoint, TX Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC Fri, 06 Mar...

Geologist
Houston, TX Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:05:11...

Geologist Sr. Staff Regional
Houston/Greenspoint, TX Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC Fri, 06 Mar...

Engineer/Reservoir Sr
Houston/DT, TX Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:05:10...

On the second Monday of each month, Oil & Gas Journal Monthly Drilling and Production Report delivers news about global drilling for and production of hydrocarbons. Selected and written for industry professionals by editors of Oil & Gas Journal, the stories originate in Oil & Gas Journal Online, with reports from around the world. For general interest articles and news about other industry operations, visit http://www.ogjonline.com.

CONTENTS

•Marlim Leste FPSO starts up off Brazil

•Alberta offers incentives to boost drilling

•Murkowski introduces bill to develop ANWR

•Galoc oil field back on stream in the Philippines

•NNPC obtains loan for Gbaran-Ugbidie project

•Rwanda's Lake Kivu gas project advances

•PTTEP Aussie unit lets contract for Montara project

•BGTT favors LNG for Trinidad and Tobago gas

•TNK-BP starts production from Siberian fields

•Nexus enters into negotiations for FPSO



STORIES

Marlim Leste FPSO starts up off Brazil
Marlim Leste field has started producing to a second production facility Feb. 26. Brazil's Petrobras operates the field in the Campos basin, about 120 km off Brazil.
Click Here for the Full Story

Alberta offers incentives to boost drilling
Alberta oil and gas producers have been offered royalty incentives from a provincial government hoping to revive drilling.
Click Here for the Full Story

Murkowski introduces bill to develop ANWR
US Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) introduced her previously announced bill to authorize Arctic National Wildlife Refuge development using directional drilling from state lands on Feb. 27.
Click Here for the Full Story


Galoc oil field back on stream in the Philippines
Production has resumed from Galoc oil field in the Palawan basin off the Philippines following completion of repairs and enhancements to the mooring and riser systems.
Click Here for the Full Story

NNPC obtains loan for Gbaran-Ugbidie project
Cash-strapped NNPC will receive a $1.69 billion loan from its partners Shell, Total, and Agip to develop the Gbaran-Ugbidie oil and gas upstream project in Nigeria's Bayelsa state.
Click Here for the Full Story

Rwanda's Lake Kivu gas project advances
ContourGlobal, New York, signed a contract with Rwanda's government to extract solution gas from Lake Kivu to generate electricity.
Click Here for the Full Story

PTTEP Aussie unit lets contract for Montara project
Thai state company PTTEP Australasia has awarded a $116 million (Aus.) contract to Perth-based Clough Australia for the installation of the Montara oil facilities in the Timor Sea.
Click Here for the Full Story

BGTT favors LNG for Trinidad and Tobago gas
BG Trinidad & Tobago reported that it has more than 4 tcf of uncommitted natural gas in Trinidad and Tobago and is working on projects to monetize the gas.
Click Here for the Full Story

TNK-BP starts production from Siberian fields
Anglo-Russian oil joint venture TNK-BP Holding reported it has started commercial production at Urna and Ust-Tegus fields in the Uvat area of the Tyumen region in Siberia.
Click Here for the Full Story

Nexus enters into negotiations for FPSO
Nexus Energy has entered negotiations with Single Buoy Moorings for the supply of an FPSO vessel for its Crux liquids project in the Browse basin off Western Australia.
Click Here for the Full Story


Oil & Gas Journal Webcasts
Vendor-supplied Content
Search Webcast Library
Advanced

Featured Webcasts:
Ultra-Deepwater HPHT Riser Technology: Latest Developments
Current discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico combine extreme water depths with...

US Energy Politics: An OGJ Conversation
A conversation between two seasoned observers of US policy-making: Oil & Gas...

The Latest in Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) Technology: Making Previously Undrillable Wells Drillable
The demands of modern wells are rewriting old concepts of how to drill a well. Managed...

Managing Risk and Volatility in Today's Oil and Gas Industry
Even in the best of times, every petroleum company has some level of exposure...

PennWell Petroleum White Papers
Vendor-supplied Content
Search White Paper Library
Advanced
White Paper Categories:
Equipment
2 White Papers from 2 Vendors

General
5 White Papers from 2 Vendors

Health, Safety, and Environment
2 White Papers from 2 Vendors

Midstream Technology
2 White Papers from 2 Vendors

Services and Software
5 White Papers from 2 Vendors

Upstream Technology
5 White Papers from 3 Vendors


Petroleum Bookstore

PennWell Bookstore covers all aspects of the petroleum industry from oil and gas investment to oil exploration to offshore drilling. Written by selected industry experts, PennWell books will help you broaden your expertise in your current field, understand other related disciplines, provide quick-glance references as a topic arrives in your daily routine, and make excellent classroom, seminar, and in-house training texts. Shop our online bookstore here.


ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES
To advertise in this newsletter, call advertising sales at (713) 621-9720 or bshelton@pennwell.com.

View Oil & Gas Journal's advertiser index for the current issue.

SUBSCRIBER SERVICE

If you are a current e-newsletter subscriber, you can discontinue delivery of this newsletter by clicking this link: http://ogjo-media.com/portal/unsubscribeconfirm/?kQIPMi8hMYaIEcB8drGUOaqgkNYrkDneA

You can also reply to the original e-mail and type "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Or, if you prefer, you can write to us at:
PennWell Corporation
c/o E-mail Unsubscribe
1421 South Sheridan Road
Tulsa, OK 74112

If you do not subscribe to this newsletter and would like to receive it, please click this link:
http://www.omeda.com/ogjo/


For 100 years, Oil & Gas Journal has been the first place professionals look to for the latest intelligence on every aspect of the petroleum industry. Subscribe today. Succeed tomorrow.
Go to: http://www.ogjonline.com/subscribe.html.



Oil & Gas Journal Daily Update
PennWell Corporation
Copyright © 2009: PennWell Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma; All rights reserved.
Oil & Gas Journal Daily Update