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The Ticonderoga field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, jointly owned by Kerr-McGee Corp. and Noble Energy Inc., achieved first production last week, nearly two months ahead of schedule. Ticonderoga, operated by Kerr-McGee, holds an estimated 30-50 million boe and has reached peak production volumes of 20,000 bbl/d of oil and 15 MMcf/d of natural gas.

FERC on Thursday approved Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s and National Fuel Gas Supply Corp.’s proposal to increase deliverability at their jointly-owned Hebron Storage Field in Pennsylvania, and it gave the go-ahead to a companion project that calls for the expansion of firm transportation capacity on Tennessee’s Line 300 in Pennsylvania.

Mexico’s state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is considering an alliance with Royal Dutch Shell and other energy companies to jointly explore a region of the Gulf of Mexico that sits on its maritime border with the United States, according to Carlos Morales, director general for exploration and production.

Gulf South Pipeline Co. LP and Texas Gas Transmission LLC, along with Energy Transfer Partners LP, said late Thursday they are jointly developing two independently owned and operated natural gas pipeline systems that will interconnect near Carthage, TX to integrate with existing systems in East Texas — a region where the Bossier Sand and Barnett Shale gas plays are producing at high speed.

Mitsubishi Corp. and ConocoPhillips announced Tuesday they have finalized their agreement to jointly develop a $400 million LNG receiving terminal with 700 MMcf/d of sendout capacity and a peak capacity of up to 1 Bcf/d proposed for the Port of Long Beach, CA. The companies had signaled their intent to form a joint venture last July (see Daily GPI, July 14, 2004).

ChevronTexaco Corp., ExxonMobil Corp. and Royal Dutch/Shell Group agreed last week to jointly develop some natural gas fields off the Australian coast, which eventually would result in sending liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Asia and the North American West Coast.

ChevronTexaco Corp., ExxonMobil Corp. and Royal Dutch/Shell Group have agreed to jointly develop some natural gas fields off the Australian coast that eventually would result in liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Asia and the North American West Coast.

ChevronTexaco Corp. and BG Group, which jointly operate some wells offshore Trinidad and Tobago, confirmed last week that their Manatee 1 exploration well has encountered “significant” amounts of natural gas.

ChevronTexaco Corp. and BG Group, which jointly operate some wells offshore Trinidad and Tobago, confirmed this week that their Manatee 1 exploration well has encountered “significant” amounts of natural gas.