Kicking

Demand for oilfield services from North America’s unconventional resource drillers continues unabated and Halliburton Co. could complete contracts “in any terms we wanted to dictate at this point in time,” CEO Dave Lesar said Monday.

Atlanta-based AGL Resources said it is kicking off a nonbinding open season later this month for service offerings at its proposed $180 million high-deliverability natural gas storage facility in the Spindletop salt dome in Beaumont, TX.

Atlanta-based AGL Resources said Monday it is kicking off a nonbinding open season later this month for service offerings at its proposed $180 million high-deliverability natural gas storage facility in the Spindletop salt dome in Beaumont, TX.

With the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season officially kicking off last Thursday, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) on Monday released its “final report” on Gulf of Mexico gas and oil production shut-ins related to the damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the 2005 hurricane season.

Canadian oilsands producers are being urged to go to work on “kicking the natural gas dependency” after an industry canvass turned up alarming demand projections. In a draft report scheduled for release early in 2004, the Alberta Chamber of Resources says that continuing present patterns would cause an “unthinkable” squeeze, with up to half of Canadian gas supplies needed to make the synthetic oil which is rapidly taking over from conventional production.

Canadian oilsands producers are being urged to go to work on “kicking the natural gas dependency” after an industry canvass turned up alarming demand projections. In a draft report scheduled for release early in 2004, the Alberta Chamber of Resources says that continuing present patterns would cause an “unthinkable” squeeze, with up to half of Canadian gas supplies needed to make the synthetic oil which is rapidly taking over from conventional production.

Kicking off the next phase of the Sable Island project, Exxon Mobil Corp. said last week that natural gas production has begun at the Alma field, the first Tier 2 production from the Sable project, located 125 miles offshore Nova Scotia.

Kicking off the next phase of the Sable Island project, Exxon Mobil Corp. said Tuesday that natural gas production has begun at the Alma field, the first Tier 2 production from the Sable project, located 125 miles offshore Nova Scotia.

Kicking off the new year with a binge of open seasons, Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, LP (KMP) launched three separate offerings last week for pipeline projects poised to bring new supplies of gas into Arizona markets and the Midwest.