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INDIA SEABOUNDARY
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIA has launched a study to mark and expand its sea boundary by an additional one million square kilometres, (400,000 square miles), beyond its existing exclusive economic zone, the country’s Daily News has reported. A seismic survey is being carried out by the National Institute of Oceanography, with a view to staking a claim by 2005 for extended maritime borders on the east and west coast of India.…
INDIA - KERALA
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
PETRONET LNG Ltd., a consortium of four Indian state-owned oil and gas companies, is to invite global engineering, procurement and construction bids for its Rs18 billion, 2.5-million-ton liquefied natural gas re-gasification plant project at Kochi, Kerala. A senior official has told India’s Financial Express that a contractor would be selected by January 2002.…
PIRACY LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDONESIAN navy has recovered a stolen oil tanker from pirates, who seized it near the Shell refinery at Port Dickson, the Malacca Straits. The International Maritime Bureau – part of the International Chamber of Commerce – provided important information about the ship, via its Piracy Reporting Centre in Malaysia.…
EU ROUND UP: NORWAY ETC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned Norwegian gas producers that the joint sale of Norwegian gas carried out through the national Gas Negotiation Committee is in breach of the European Union competition rules, because it fixes, among other things, the price and the quantities sold.…
CHIEFTAIN
BY MONICA DOBIE
DALLAS based Hunt Oil Co. has taken over Chieftain International Inc., an Edmonton-based and Canadian-owned natural gas producer, with assets in the Gulf of Mexico, for CAN$915-million. Hunt is offering US$29 in cash for each Chieftain share and is to assume US$15-million of debt.…
CANADA ACQUISITIONS
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN oil and gas industry has seen its largest corporate take-over when Houston-based Conoco Inc. agreed to buyout Gulf Canada Resources for CAN$6.7 billion in cash.
The deal will serve up a large piece of the natural gas pie for Texan giant Conoco in Canada, especially in the relatively untapped Mackenzie Delta gas deposits in the Northwest Territories.…
CANADA - WTO
KEITH NUTHALL
CANADA has won a partial victory at the WTO, which may help it resist planned US countervailing duties against its lumber exports. It persuaded a disputes panel that an importing country should not be allowed to treat restrictions on the amount of exports of a particular commodity as an illegal subsidy, even where this lowered its price domestically and helped local manufacturers lower prices.…
EU FORUM
KEITH NUTHALL
A SECOND Forum of EU Forest-based Industries is to be held in Stockholm on June 21, focusing on sustainable raw material, the enhanced use of wood and impact assessments of forest regulations.
Participants will include the Chairman of the (EU forest) Industry Council Lars Rekke and Erkki Liikanen, EU Enterprise and Information Society Commissioner.…
SPIKES
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
THE ROYAL Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia are investigating the use of concrete tree spikes drilled into trees by environmental extremists to splinter the metal blade of a logger’s chainsaw or break huge saws used in mills, wrecking machinery and sending broken metal and concrete shrapnel in every direction.…
FOREST FORUM
KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST session of the United Nations’ Forum on Forests has begun work at UN headquarters in New York, with a brief to identify a five-year agenda of discussions and develop the means of implementing any international agreements on forests that might be struck by the forum in future.…