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  <description>Technip awarded pipeline installation contract by Woodside Energy Limited for the Greater Western Flank Phase 1 Project</description>
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  <description>Technip was awarded Kuwait Gulf Oil Company contract for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning assistance of its Gas and Condensate Export System project</description>
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  <title>BAM Clough receive LOI for Ichthys LNG project</title> 
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  <pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>The BAM Clough Joint Venture has received a Letter of Intent (LOI) from JGC Corporation, KBR and Chiyoda Corporation joint venture (JKC JV) for a contract valued at $A140 million</description>
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  <title>Seadrill secures jack-up rig contracts</title> 
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  <pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>Seadrill has secured new contracts for the three jack-up rigs Offshore Mischief, Offshore Defender, and West Leda</description>
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  <title>Technip wins Jubilee contract</title> 
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  <description>Tullow Ghana Limited awarded Technip two contracts for the Phase 1A of the Jubilee project</description>
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  <title>Tullow and Uganda government sign agreement</title> 
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  <description>Tullow Oil has signed two new Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) with the Government of Uganda</description>
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  <title>StabFrame successfully completes first project</title> 
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  <description>The first offshore pile installation operation with the StabFrame, a newly developed subsea pile-stabilising template, has been successfully completed</description>
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  <title>Dragon Oil appoints exploration manager</title> 
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  <title>Clough awarded Wheatstone contract</title> 
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  <description>Clough awarded A$350 million contract for the offshore hook-up and commissioning component of the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project</description>
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  <title>GE Oil &amp; Gas gets Ichthys LNG contracts</title> 
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  <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>GE Oil &amp; Gas has received contracts totaling more than $1 billion to supply a wide range of equipment and services for the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Australia</description>
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  <title>Veripos positioning for BP vessels</title> 
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  <description>Veripos has been awarded an extension to its contract with BP under which it will continue to provide precision positioning</description>
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  <title>Clough JV awarded work order for PNG LNG project</title> 
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>Clough Curtain Joint Venture (CCJV) has received work orders worth approximately A$145 million associated with the PNG LNG Upstream Infrastructure contract</description>
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  <title>McDermott awarded INPEX Ichthys subsea contract</title> 
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  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>McDermott's Australian subsidiary has received and signed a letter of award for the Ichthys Gas-condensate Field Development subsea umbilical, riser, flowline (SURF) project by INPEX</description>
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  <description>Australia Pacific LNG and Sinopec signsubscription agreement for Sinopec to subscribe for an additional interest in Australia Pacific LNG </description>
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  <title>FMC Technologies wins Anadarko contract</title> 
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  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>FMC Technologies has signed an agreement with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation to provide subsea systems and life-of-field services for its Lucius project</description>
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  <title>FMC Technologies wins Woodside subsea systems contract</title> 
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  <description>FMC Technologies Australian subsidiary signs agreement with Woodside Energy for the design, manufacture and supply of subsea production systems to support the Greater Western Flank (GWF) Phase 1 Project</description>
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  <title>Technip awarded two-year extension of Statoil contract</title> 
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  <description>Technip was awarded the last option for the Statoil frame contract for diving, pipeline repair, contingency and modification services</description>
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  <title>Fugro wins Australian contract</title> 
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  <pubDate>Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>FUGRO-TSM awarded the Greater Western Flank (GWF) Phase 1 Project Subsea Installation Contract from Woodside Energy Limited</description>
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  <title>Technip-Ingerop awarded contract by ANDRA</title> 
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  <description>The Gaiya joint-venture (Technip-Ingerop) awarded contract by ANDRA to be the main contractor of the future Industrial Geological Storage Center to be located in Meuse/Haute-Marne (East of France)</description>
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  <title>Fugro GEOS wins Vietnam contract</title> 
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  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>Fugro GEOS has signed a contract and begun work on the provision of a year-long programme of deepwater current measurements at two blocks off the southern coast of Vietnam</description>
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  <title>Technip awarded Lucius project contract</title> 
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  <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>Technip was awarded a lump sum contract by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the engineering, construction and transport of a 23,000 ton truss Spar hull for the Lucius project in the US Gulf of Mexico</description>
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  <title>Technip awarded a gas-to-liquids contract in Uzbekistan</title> 
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>Technip warded extension of existing reimbursable services contract, for the front-end engineering design of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant, located 40 kilometers south of Qarshi in Uzbekistan</description>
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  <title>FMC Technologies wins BP contract</title> 
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  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>FMC Technologies signs contract with BP for the manufacture and supply of additional subsea equipment for its ongoing deepwater projects offshore Angola</description>
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  <title>Qatargas using GE technology to meet new emissions limits</title> 
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  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>GE Oil &amp; Gas signs contract with Qatargas to supply advanced combustion technology that will reduce gas turbine emissions at the Qatargas 1 Utility complex to meet new regulations from the Qatari Ministry of Environment</description>
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  <title>FMC Technologies wins $40m contract From LLOG</title> 
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  <pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>FMC Technologies signs agreement with LLOG Exploration for the design, manufacture and supply of subsea production systems to support its Who Dat project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico</description>
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  <title>CSG industry and SkillsTech Australia partnership</title> 
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  <description>Partnership between CSG company and SkillsTech Australia is valued at over $1 million</description>
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  <title>FMC Technologies wins $325m contract for Wheatstone Project</title> 
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  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>FMC Technologies Australian subsidiary signs agreement with Chevron Australia for the design, manufacture and supply of subsea production systems to support the Wheatstone Project</description>
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  <title>Technip awarded contract in Norwegian North Sea</title> 
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>Technip awarded engineering services contract by Samsung Heavy Industries at Statoil's Valemon gas and condensate field located in the Norwegian North Sea</description>
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  <title>Statoil and Centrica sign gas sales agreement</title> 
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  <description>Statoil and Centrica signed a long term gas sales agreement for the delivery of 5 billion cubic metres (bcm) per year from 2015 to 2025 to the UK market</description>
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  <title>BP to sell Pompano and Mica assets to Stone</title> 
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>BP has agreed to sell its interests in the Pompano and Mica fields in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to Stone Energy Offshore, LLC, a subsidiary of Stone Energy Corp</description>
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  <title>Douglas-Westwood sees increased offshore wind spend</title> 
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  <description>Over 51 billion is expected to be spent on new offshore wind installations over the next five years, according to a new report by international energy business advisors Douglas-Westwood</description>
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  <title>FMC Technologies sets deepwater completion record</title> 
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  <description>FMC Technologies reported that its enhanced vertical deepwater tree (EVDT) system set a new deepwater completion record of 9,627 feet (2,934 meters)</description>
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  <title>SDRL - Seadrill secures contract extension for West Aquarius</title> 
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>Seadrill has been awarded a two-year extension for the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig West Aquarius which is currently operating in Asia under a worldwide contract for ExxonMobil</description>
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  <title>Australia Pacific LNG and Kansai Electric sign LNG agreement</title> 
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>Australia Pacific LNG and The Kansai Electric sign binding Heads of Agreement for the sale and purchase of approximately 1 million tonnes of LNG per year for 20 years</description>
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  <title>OriginOil launches commercial algae harvesting system</title> 
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  <description>OriginOil launches Algae Appliance, a commercial entry-level algae harvesting system that will help producers process algae at very low cost and without chemicals</description>
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  <title>Petrofac awarded project in Mozambique</title> 
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  <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>Petrofac awarded lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction contract by Sasol Petroleum Temane, a subsidiary of Sasol Petroleum International, for the Pande and Temane gas field developments in Mozambique</description>
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  <title>Technip awarded subsea contract for the Brynhild project, Norway</title> 
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  <description>Lundin Petroleum awarded Technip a lump sum contract for the Brynhild field development</description>
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  <title>Corpro completes coring project, South America</title> 
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  <description>Corpro reported the successful completion of its first ever large-bore, wireline coring job in Colombia, South America</description>
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  <title>McDermott wins EPCI contract offshore India</title> 
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  <description>McDermott subsidiary wins engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) project for Oil and National Gas Corporation (ONGC) Cluster 7 Development Program</description>
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  <title>Sir Robert Wilson to step down as Chairman of BG Group</title> 
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  <description>Sir Robert Wilson to stand down as Chairman of BG Group at the conclusion of the Company's Annual General Meeting in May 2012</description>
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  <title>Archer awarded contract extension by Shell in the North Sea</title> 
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  <description>Archer to continue providing drilling, maintenance and engineering services on the Nelson platform and four additional platforms in the Brent field</description>
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  <title>Technip awarded contract for Causeway development</title> 
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  <title>BP, partners investing in UK oil and gas projects</title> 
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  <description>BP and partners developing four new oil and gas projects investing almost £10 billion in the UK's oil industry over the next five years</description>
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  <title>Global floating production surge</title> 
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  <description>Latin America will account for half of the projected floating production Capex over the next five years according to a new Douglas-Westwood report</description>
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  <title>Technip awarded umbilical contracts in the US</title> 
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  <description>Technip subsidiary, DUCO Inc. was awarded two contracts, by Shell Offshore Inc, for the Cardamom and West Boreas field developments, located in the Gulf of Mexico</description>
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  <title>The carbon tax clock is now ticking on NSW mines</title> 
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  <description>NSW MPs in Federal Parliament are being urged to rethink the carbon tax as new figures show it could force almost half of the State's underground coalmines to shut down prematurely</description>
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  <title>Australian Centre for Geological Carbon Storage</title> 
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  <pubDate>Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate> 
  <description>The new Victorian-based Centre for Geological Carbon Storage will enhance Australia's role as a leader in carbon capture and storage (CCS) research and education</description>
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  <title>SDRL - Seadrill secures contract for West Capricorn</title> 
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