Pipeline & Gas Journal articles from August 2003

Pipeline & Gas Journal archives from August 2003

Enron files Chapter 11 Plan & Motion to transfer interest.(Newsreel)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Enron Corp. recently filed its proposed Joint Chapter 11 Plan and related disclosure statement with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Statement details estimate recovery percentages ranging from 100 percent lot certain claims to zero cents on the...

El Paso elects Douglas L. Foshee as president, CEO.(Newsreel)
August 1, 2003... El Paso Corporation's Board of Directors unanimously elected Douglas L. Foshee to serve as president, CEO and director of the company, effective Sept. 2, Current CEO Ronald L. Kuchn, Jr., will continue to serve as chairman of the board. ...

FERC denies sale of William's South Texas system.(Newsreel)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The FERC has issued an order denying the abandonment of some of Williams' South Texas natural gas transmission lines to Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. The ruling reverses a previous decision granting approval of the sale, Enbridge agreed to...

Initial decision issued for KMP's interstate pipeline rates.(Newsreel)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P, (KMP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc., announced that a non-binding, phase one decision was issued by the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) hearing the FERC case on rates charged by SFPP, L.P. (SFPP) for the...

Major partnership ending after 14 years.(Newsreel)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Due to the decline of new power generation construction, the Duke Energy/Fluor Daniel partnership will begin efforts to dissolve its 14-year partnership over the next two years. However, specific details remain to be developed for the...

Williams sells interest in Rio Grande Pipeline Co.(Newsreel)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Navajo Southern Inc. has purchased Juarez Pipeline Company's 45 percent interest in the Rio Grande Pipeline Co. for $27.5 million. The purchase will add to Navajo's current 25 percent interest, giving it 70 percent ownership, Navajo Southern is...

Sempra Energy will continue Mexico operations.(Newsreel)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... A decision has been made by the U.S. District Court rejecting legal attempts to halt operations of Sempra Energy Resources' new power plant in Baja California, Mexico. The federal court found that the environmental assessment permit issued by...

Crosstex acquires Duke Energy assets.(Newsreel)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Crosstex Energy, L.P. has completed an acquisition of assets from Duke Energy Field Services, L.P. for $67.35 million. The purchase increases Crosstex's gathering and transmissions pipeline from approximately 1,700 to an estimated 2,500 miles....

Fulbright & Jaworski adds fourth energy lawyer.(Newsreel)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P recently added another member to its firm. Michael E. Arruda will be the fourth energy lawyer to join the firm this year. Arruda, who has more than 20 years of experience in the energy...

Entergy-Koch enter partnership with EnerSea Transport.(Newsreel)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Entergy-Koch Trading, LP (EKT) signed an agreement with EnerSea Transport LLC to invest in and market EnerSea's compressed natural gas (CNG) technology and services in North America. Natural gas prices have risen in the U.S. recently due in...

Editor's notebook.(Editorial)
August 1, 2003... In 1995, I had the opportunity to interview Phil Carroll, then president of Shell Oil USA, for my book, The Oil Makers, Insiders Look At The Petroleum Industry. These days, Carroll works in Baghdad, directing the rebuilding of Iraq's...

White House wrestles with natural gas prices.(Government Guidelines)
August 1, 2003... Political pressure to do something about escalating natural gas prices bubbled to the surface in Washington this summer. The Bush administration, clearly cognizant of the lumps taken by the Clinton FERC over the California gas price spike...

FERC gives OK to El Paso on Power-Up.(Government Guidelines)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The FERC has approved of El Paso Natural Gas Company's "Power-Up" project, dispatching complaints from competitors such as Kern River that the new capacity would disadvantage them. El Paso's addition of compressor facilities on its Line 2000 is...

Socotherm wins China pipeline coating project.(Projects)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Socotherm S.P.A., Adria, Italy, won a $l0 million contract to provide anti-corrosion coating for the Chinese Hangzhou Bay project, a 100-mile subsea crude line in the Ningbo (Daxie Free Zone)--62 miles from Shanghai. Socotherm officials say the...

Broward-Bahamas pipeline gets preliminary FERC nod.(Projects)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Plans by the AES Corporation to construct a 94-mile, 24-inch diameter pipeline from a proposed LNG terminal in the Bahamas to Florida Power & Light's Fort Lauderdale power plant in Broward County, FL appear a step closer to reality. The Federal...

Work continues on Duke Energy's Patriot Expansion.(Projects)
August 1, 2003... Duke Energy Gas Transmission has successfully installed, inspected and tested 1,666 feet of Patriot Extension natural gas pipeline under the New River in Wythe County, VA and is continuing construction on a 53-mile section of the pipeline...

Tennessee Gas holds open season for Freedom Trail expansion project.(Projects)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company recently held an open season to access market interest in additional firm transportation to be created by its proposed Freedom Trail expansion project. As proposed, the project would increase mainline capacity on...

Tuscarora extends open season for mainline expansion.(Projects)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Tuscarora Gas Transmission Company has extended its open season for incremental firm transportation service commencing on Nov. 1, 2005. Since the open season began on June 24, the company has received several requests from individual shippers...

BP and AAR move toward joint venture deal.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... BP reports progress on forming a joint venture with Access-Renova (AAR) saying they have signed a sale and purchase agreement, a significant step toward formal completion of the proposed combination of their Russian businesses. The transaction,...

Dolphin Energy to use real-time modeling for middle east project.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Houston-based Energy Solutions will supply its real time pipeline management tools to Dolphin Energy Ltd. for the Dolphin Gas Project. Servelec Ltd., which is supplying the SCADA system for the project, has chosen Energy Solutions' pipeline...

Flowserve supplies eight pumps for Peru project.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Flowserve recently shipped eight high pressure pump packages for Peru's Camisca Project. These pumps will transport condensate 575 km (360 miles) from the Camisea fields, located 430 km (270 miles) east of Lima, to a separation plant in Pampa...

BG, partners agree on terms for Egyptian LNG Train 2.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... BG Group plc and Egyptian LNG (ELNG) Train 2 partners have agreed on the principal terms for LNG sale and purchase agreements (SPAs) for the entire 3.6 million tons per annum (mtpa) output of Train 2 with BG Gas Marketing Limited. ELNG Train 2...

BJ PPS wins African pipeline precommissioning contract.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... BJ Process and Pipeline Services (BJ PPS), Aberdeen, has won a multimillion-dollar contract by Stolt Offshore Services to provide pipeline prccommissioning services on several sections of Shell Petroleum Development Co's new offshore gas...

Yukos looks to become natural gas player.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Russia's oil major Yukos plans to develop its natural gas business, according to Yury Beilin, president of its exploration and production unit. He said the company hopes that the situation regarding natural gas market liberalization will...

Willbros enters into new China alliance.(International Highlights)(agreements with Sinopec Jianghan Petroleum Group Cooperations, Jianghan Oilfield Construction and Engineering Co.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Willbros Group, Inc. announced that its operating unit, Willbros International Inc., has entered into an alliance agreement with Sinopec Jianghan Petroleum Group Cooperations and Jianghan Oilfield Construction and Engineering Company. The...

Construction starts on Caribbean pipeline.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Construction has begun on a $55 million natural gas pipeline project in Trinidad and Tobago. Project details include offshore and onshore pipelaying. NGC Trinidad & Tobago LNG Ltd. is constructing the 56-inch diameter Cross Island Pipeline,...

Support for B-T-C oil pipeline.(International Highlights)(Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline financing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... U.S. Ex-Im Bank plans to guarantee a credit of $100 million to build the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, Cheryl Conlin, manager of project and structural financing at the bank, told an energy conference in Baku. The future pipeline will...

GE Oil & Gas wins contract in Italy from Snam Rete Gas for three compressors.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... GE Oil & Gas has signed a contract valued at $43 million with Snam Rete Gas to supp]y three compressor units and services for the Gallese, Tarsia and Melizzano compressor stations, part of Italy's gas pipeline network.

UK upgrading National Pipeline Grid with help from AB Rhead.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... AB Rhead & Associates Ltd. signed a contract with UK's National Grid Transco to upgrade its gas transportation system throughout the nation. The company will work with Transco on management, design and engineering issues on four separate...

Largo Vista assists China in pipeline development.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Largo Vista Group, Ltd. announced it has signed a contract with the Zunyi government to assist in the development of a second liquid petroleum gas (LPG) pipeline in China.

South Korea could receive Russian gas.(International Highlights)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Russia and South Korea are expected to complete feasibility studies for an $11 billion pipeline project soon, a 2,480-mile pipeline that would move Russian gas from the Kovytka gas field heal Irkutsk, Siberia, to South Korea. If approved, plans...

Sakhalin-1 construction nears startup.(International Highlights)(Lukoil-Neftegasstroy)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Lukoil-Neftegasstroy (LNGS) will begin construction on a new oil pipeline for the Sakhalin-1 project at the end of this year. In 2002, contracts valued at $300 million were awarded to LNGS and Nippon Steel for design and construction of the...

Strength through exhaustion, or design for resilience?(A Guest Column)(homeland energy security)
August 1, 2003... America's security is threatened by dependence on both Middle East oil and fragile domestic infrastructure--such as the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). Replacing Middle East oil is vital--but not with equally vulnerable domestic sources...

Gas 'interchangeability' and its effects on U.S. import plans: the actual extent to which LNG will be available to supply this new demand will depend on a variety of factors ... the degree to which vaporized LNG is, with or without treatment, actually "interchangeable" with existing domestic pipeline gas in combustion applications.(Factors Behind LNG)
August 1, 2003... U.S. natural gas production levels have decreased for the past several years and are expected to continue to decline, while domestic natural gas storage levels are well below their historical low points for the third year in a row. In June...

Engineers master challenges to commission large Vietnam pipeline.(International Nam Con Son Gas Project)
August 1, 2003... The final pig in the Nam Con Son main trunk line commissioning train arrived safely in November 2002, marking the culmination of a decade of exploration and development work on the $1.3 billion landmark gas-to-power Nam Con Son project by...

Gas-coupled ultrasonic inspection of pipelines.(2003 Special PPSA Section)
August 1, 2003... Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) pipe inspection devices ("pigs") measure wall loss in a gas pipeline, but not the remaining wall thickness that determines the remaining strength. In addition, the precision of MFL tools is limited to 10% of the wall...

Buyer's guide.(2003 Special PPSA Section)(Illustration)
August 1, 2003... BUYER'S GUIDE PIPELINES PIGS Solid Mandrel Foam cast pigs pigs pigs...

Pigging today is a mature, sophisticated science at last.(Vital Industry Progresses)
August 1, 2003... A year ago, we wrote in Pipeline & Gas Journal that pipeline pigging as an industry has come of age. It is now a satisfying time for those who have worked for pigging to take its rightful place in the hierarchy of pipeline technologies. Pigging...

If you're familiar with these new DOT regulations ... then you also need to get familiar with the Enduro Digitel[TM] Data Logger[TM]! A pig driven GPS Survey to satisfy GIS mapping needs.
August 1, 2003... JUMP START your GIS MAPPING with a current as-built map of your system. Features include: * Geospatial Data needed for the National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS). * Varied attribute files and custom abilities for your GIS needs:...

Pipeline & Gas Journal's 2003 International Pipeline Construction Report.(International Report)
August 1, 2003... Pipeline & Gas Journal's latest international construction survey figures indicate 47,190 miles of oil and gas pipelines are in various stages of construction or planned for construction. Not surprisingly, this year's figures are significantly...

2003 China International Gas Utility Technology & Equipment Exhibition.(Guider first forge best future prospect outstanding from the numerous)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... October 28-30, 2003 Shanghai International Exhibition Center of China Permitted and authorized by: Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, PRC Sponsored by: Sales Company of China Petroleum West-east Gas Transportation...

Pipeline construction scorecard: projects planned and under construction.(Illustration)
August 1, 2003... Pipeline Construction Scorecard Projects Planned And Under Construction Company Name Project Name Length And/Or Location (Miles) FUTURE GAS PROJECTS AGL...

Australia's growing pipeline infrastructure.(International Report)
August 1, 2003... Australia's proven oil and natural gas reserves have nearly doubled in recent years, yet there is much exploration to be done. Gas reserves are among the largest in the Asia Pacific region. Proved reserves were estimated at 90 Tcf as of Jan. 1,...

Heat, sand and hard rock challenge Algerian pipeline crews.
August 1, 2003... The hard part about building a pipeline isn't laying the pipe itself. It's where and how you lay it. Consider Bechtel's lates project in Algeria, a 600-km natural gas pipeline connecting the itch. In Salah gas fields in the central Salaam to...

Enbridge saves using screw-anchor buoyancy control technique in wet muskeg.(International Report)
August 1, 2003... Enbridge Pipelines (Athabasca) Inc. saved more than $7.6 million during construction of the 338-mile (541-km) NPS 30 Athabasca Pipeline that runs from Fort McMurray to Hardisty, Alberta by using a pipeline buoyancy control technique that had...

YZ systems.(What's New In Leak Detection, Monitoring And Inspection)
August 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YZ has introduced a new DTEX[TM] dual-test-mode odorant detection system that combines the two accepted industry test methods of odor concentration and odor intensity into one customer-selectable system. DTEX is a...

Russell NDE Systems Inc.(What's New In Leak Detection, Monitoring And Inspection)
August 1, 2003... Russell NDE Systems Inc. spotlights the Ferroscope[R] 308 System in its new color brochure. The Ferroscope System, with the E-PIT and I-PIT probes, provides cost-effective solutions to the non-destructive inspection of small-diameter pipelines....

Pipeline Inspection Company.(What's New In Leak Detection, Monitoring And Inspection)
August 1, 2003... Pipeline Inspection's Fault Finder locates faults in coated pipe, detects hydrostatic leaks and it simply traces pipelines and cables, providing an electronic survey of underground of underwater lines. The "Pearson-type" detector's are also...

Energy Solutions.(What's New In Leak Detection, Monitoring And Inspection)
August 1, 2003... Energy Solutions has published a color brochure putting the spotlight on it 25-year record to providing pipeline management systems, including pioneering groundbreaking high-performance leak detection systems and developing the world's first...

ATMOS International, Inc.(What's New In Leak Detection, Monitoring And Inspection)
August 1, 2003... REL Instrumentation, [no is changing its name to ATMOS International to capitalize on the strong name branding of their ATMOS[TM] products REL provides proprietary software solutions for real-time pipeline leak detection. PEL is engineering...

FF Automation Oy.(What's New In Leak Detection, Monitoring And Inspection)
August 1, 2003... FF Automation is offering AutoLog[TM] ControlMan remote and wireless control system which consists of Autolog ControlMan Web SCADA, GSM Alarms, and remote AutoLog ControlMan PLC devices. AutoLog ControlMan is especially designed to serve remote...

DigitalGlobe.(What's New In Leak Detection, Monitoring And Inspection)
August 1, 2003... DigitalGlobe[TM], an imagery and information company, is offering QuickBird Orthorectified, QuickBird Color (Pan-Sharpened) and QuickBird Two-Foot Imagery. These satellite imagery products address the needs of geographic information system...

Cirronet Inc.(What's New In Leak Detection, Monitoring And Inspection)
August 1, 2003... Cirronet[TM] Inc., provider of wireless transceivers and broadband Internet products, announced availability of "802.11b-friendly" 2.4-GHz transmission products using frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) technology. The FHSS-based 2.4 GHz...

PII Pipeline Solutions.(What's New In Leak Detection, Monitoring And Inspection)
August 1, 2003... PII, part of GE Oil & Gas, announced the first pipeline inspection tool based on Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) technology. PII's EmatScan CD detects and measures cracks as short as 30 mm and as shallow as 1 mm, delivering...

Dickson Company.(What's New In Leak Detection, Monitoring And Inspection)
August 1, 2003... Dickson has introduced the MP200 Remote Multipoint Network Monitor to its current line of instrumentation. With the MP200, a client can inexpensively monitor multiple instruments simultaneously from one PC. The MP200 uses modem connections to...

Weatherford offers specialties for new and operating pipelines.(Tech Notes: send for information)
August 1, 2003... Weatherford's newly formed Pipeline & Specialty Services (P&SS) group offers a host of services used throughout the lifecycle of pipelines and process facilities, onshore and offshore. With an experienced global network of personnel, and...

Central Plastics company.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... Central Plastics is offering a color flyer devoted to its stainless steel transition fittings that can the solve the problem of gas service transitions. The fittings meet all the same requirements as the company's conventional transition...

Nikkiso Co., Ltd.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... Nikkiso Co., Ltd., has published a color brochure featuring its variable speed cryogenic liquid transfer pump for such applications as vehicle fueling stations (LNG). LPG/LNG/LN2/LAR transfer pumps, dual fuel engine feed pumps, and vaporizer...

Analytic Pipe GmbH.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... Analytic Pipe GmbH offers a color flyer describing its geometric pipeline inspection analytic pig service. Founded in 1999, the company offers a team of flexible and experienced people who have been working in the pipeline business for years....

Enbridge Technology Inc.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... Enbridge Technology Inc. offers a color flyer explaining how it can help pipeline operators identify gaps in their OQ qualification program before the Office of Pipeline safety does. ETI consultants will analyze the processes and materials that...

Hayward Industrial Products.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... A new line of all-plastic butterfly valves from Hayward Industrial Products has been designed to be easily and cost-effectively adapted to unique application requirements. The line features a specially fabricated design that makes it feasible...

Reed Manufacturing Company.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... Reed has added a "comfort grip" handled to its original One Hand Wrench for better ergonomics. This Reed invention features all-forged steel construction and a one piece handle. Reed's Comfort Grip One Hand Wrenches and regular One Hand...

Pipestar International Inc.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... HDPE long radius Arc[TM] sweep bends (sweep ells) are now being manufactured by Pipestar International Inc. in Winnipeg, Canada using a state-of-the-art patented process developed over 12 years ago in Australia. Since its inception in...

Smith Flow Control (USA).(New Products)
August 1, 2003... New from Smith Flow Control is the Flexi-Drive, a versatile device for the remote operation of valves in hard-to-reach or hazardous locations. It consists of three elements: an operator station (computing a geared handwheel and mounting...

Swagelok Company.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... Swagelok Co. now offers two new lines of instrumentation tubing: insulated tubing and jacketed tubing. New Swagelok [R] insulated tubing, a cost effective alternative to field-installed insulation of small-diameter process lines, reduces heat...

American Meter Company.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... American Meter and Mercury Instruments have created new horizons in measurement and instrume-nation with a new generation of Merc- ury Mini-Max[R] and Mini-AT[R] Correctors that now mount integrally to American Meter's RPM[R] Series Rotary...

R.W. Lyall & Company.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... R.W. Lyall & Company, manufacturer of gas carrying products for natural gas distribution systems, has introduced its patented new all-steel valve with integral metro swivel. The new valve design incorporates a 90[degrees] angle-body...

Excelergy Corporation.(New Products)
August 1, 2003... Excelergy[R] Corporation, a world leader in high-performance software platforms automating critical business processes in the energy/utility industry and in other restructuring value chains, offers a color brochure focused on its new- Excelergy...

Cianbro works to complete two semi-submersibles for petrodrill.(Offshore Review)
August 1, 2003... With a location at Portland's Ocean Terminal in Maine, heavy civil highway and industrial contractor Cianbro--which previously concentrated mainly on building and maintaining paper mills and power plants--is well on its way to completing two...

Natural Gas Services Group, Inc.(Association News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Natural Gas Services Group, Inc., a leading provider of equipment and services to the natural gas and oil industry, has expanded its board of directors to include Gene A. Strasheim a financial consultant to Skyline Electronics Products, and...

Western Business Roundtable's Energy Committee.(Association News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Although at odds with Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's call for an increase in LNG imports, the Western Business Roundtable's Energy Committee group of Western business leaders are pleased with his recent attempt to promote increased...

American Gas Association (AGA).(Association News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Addressing the National Petroleum Council, American Gas Association (AGA) spokesman Stephen E. Ewing, president and COO of DTE Energy Gas in Detroit and chair of the AGA Task Force on Gas Supply called for hedging, energy conservation and...

The Clock Spring Company.(Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The Clock Spring Company's signature product, the Clock Spring[R] pipeline repair sleeve. recently made a good Showing in the U.S. EPA Natural Gas Star Program The pipeline repair sleeve has been used by a number of proactive natural gas...

Eagle Energy Partners.(Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions)(newly created gas and power marketing company)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Houston-based Eagle Energy Partners is a newly created gas and power marketing company to serve U.S. wholesale natural gas and power customers. Eagle Energy's founders and senior leadership team are former Dynegy Inc. executives Griff Jones,...

Dura-Bond Pipe L.L.C.(Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions)(acquired pipe manufacturing assets formerly owned by Bethlehem Steel Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dura-Bond Pipe L.L.C. of Export, PA has acquired the pipe manufacturing assets formerly owned by Bethlehem Steel Corp in Steelton, PA. Dura-Bond will restart the mill and produce large diameter steel line pipe in sizes ranging from 20 to 42...

Barton Instrument Systems, LLC.(Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions)(signed an agreement with NuFlo Technologies Inc. to sell off some of its assets)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Barton Instrument Systems, LLC has signed an agreement with NuFlo Technologies Inc. to sell off some of its assets. The assets to be divested include Barrens oil- and gas-related products, select sales locations, and the "Barton[R]" brand name,...

Garneau Inc.(Company News, Merges & Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Garneau Inc. of Nisku. Alberta. Canada, a leader in the application of high performance protective coatings and linings for oil and gas pipelines and custom-designed oilfield/pipeline equipment, recently executed a management service agreement...

DTN Market Access.(Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... DTN Market Access, Omaha, NE, a leading provider of electronically delivered market data to energy and other markets, has released six additional premium news services to the subscribers of ProphetX, DTN's analytical trading system. The new...

Fabco Industries Ltd. an offshore oil and gas, and industrial repair and maintenance contractor of Dartmouth.(Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Fabco Industries Ltd. an offshore oil and gas, and industrial repair and maintenance contractor of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia will form all alliance with Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. (The CSE Group) in Southern Ontario and McNulty...

ChevronTexaco Global Gas (CTGG).(Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... ChevronTexaco Corp. recently formed ChevronTexaco Global Gas (CTGG). John D. Gass has been named to lead CTGG and serve as a corporate vice president. James R. Blackwell, currently president of ChevronTexaco Pipeline Co. in the U.S., will...

Thelen Reid & Priest LLP.(Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... U.S.-based Thelen Reid & Priest LLP and UK based Masons have formed Masons Thelen Reid LLP, a joint venture of the two law firms that will create the world's largest construction, engineering and infrastructure practice. Clients will have...

Barbco Inc.(Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Barbco Inc., manufacturer of horizontal earth boring equipment, directional drills, auger and tunneling equipment, has moved its headquarters mid manufacturing facility to its new location at 315 Perkin Ave. SW in East Canton, OH. Phone: 1...

Rolls-Royce.(Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Rolls-Royce has won orders worth 55 [pounds sterling] million since the beginning of 2003 to supply marine design and equipment packages for the offshore industry, continuing its strong presence in this market, Thirteen of the company's...

Upcoming events 2003.(Meetings)(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 18-21, The Marine Pipeline Engineering Course, The Houstonian Hotel, Houston. Phone: (713) 521-5929; Fax: (713) 521 9255; www.clarion.org. Aug. 18-20, Gas Fair Power 2003, Ontario Energy Forum, Toronto, Canada. Aug. 26-28,...