Canada Oil & Gas Pipeline & Transportation News

Statoil is selling a 24.1% direct and indirect stake in the Gassled pipelines joint venture to SolveiG Gas Norway for NOK 17.35 billion ($3.2 billion).

Research results over the past decade, including drilling and coring, experimental studies, and numerical simulations, are clarifying the resource potential of gas hydrates. Key to recent advances is the recognition that gas hydrate is not something exotic, requiring fundamentally new technologies. Instead, gas hydrate is best thought of as the shallow extension of existing deepwater petroleum systems, fully amenable to exploration and potential production using the same tools and concepts as traditional hydrocarbon resources. The conduct of the impending field sampling and production tests will be the next major step in the evaluation of this potential resource.

Acergy has awarded CRC-Evans/Global Pipelines a contract to provide onshore double jointing of production lines as well as offshore welding services for the EnCana Deep Panuke natural gas field.

The National Energy Board (NEB) and the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB) have signed a memorandum of understanding which makes the regulation of pipelines more efficient and effective.

DNV CCT has released Corr MD - an integrated data management tool that maintains information regarding the integrity of both onshore and offshore pipeline systems.

Encana has awarded Acergy a $195-million EPIC contract for offshore installation SURF work on the Deep Panuke field offshore Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

EnCana Corp. has selected Shaw & Shaw Ltd. to provide $40 million in negative buoyancy coating for Deep Panuke offshore Nova Scotia.

EnCana Corp. filed regulatory applications for the potential development of the Deep Panuke natural gas field, 155 mi. (250 km) offshore Halifax.

Energy Maintenance Services Group I LLC has acquired four pipeline service companies.

Flow assurance challenges escalate sig-nificantly as tieback distance increases and production moves into deeper water.

Deepworker 2000. Conventionally, bottomhole production instrumentation cables are run alongside and attached to production tubing, but new methods may allow instruments to be pumped down inside tubing using thin shielded fiber optic cable. Various methods are being examined now and more are on the drawing board. The instrument package and cable are pumped down the production tubing and remain there during production. The package and cable can be removed without pulling the tubing.