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BG Group completes agreement on long-term LNG sales to India
BG Group today announced it had completed an agreement for the long-term sale of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to India, one of the world’s most rapidly growing energy markets.

Bumi Armada And Shapoorji Pallonji Company Limited Joint Venture Secures Second FPSO From ONGC
Malaysia-based international offshore oil and gas services provider, Bumi Armada Berhad announced today that its jointly controlled entity, SP Armada Oil Exploration Private Limited ("SP Armada") has received a Notification of Award (“NOA”) from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (“ONGC”) for charter hiring of a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Vessel ("FPSO") for the Cluster-7 field in India.

BP and RIL Update Government of India on KG D6 Block Enhancement Plan
Bob Dudley, BP Group Chief Executive and Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) met with the Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dr Veerappa Moily in Delhi today. They updated the Minister on their joint future plans in India, including the KG D6 block enhancement plan designed to increase production from the block.

Technip, in a consortium with Afcons and TH Heavy Engineering, awarded offshore contract in India
Technip, in a consortium with AFCONS Infrastructure Ltd and TH Heavy Engineering Berhad, was awarded a contract by Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC), worth approximately €220 million (Technip share: about €50 million), for the Heera Redevelopment (HRD) process platform project in the Arabian Sea, at approximately 70 kilometers South-West of Mumbai, India.

GE Technology Comes to India’s High-Pressure, High-Temperature Drilling Sector
Marking its debut in India’s high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) drilling and production sector, GE Oil & Gas (NYSE: GE) will supply HPHT technology to Cairn India for the further development of the Ravva oil and gas field off the coast of Andhra Pradesh in eastern India. The milestone equipment and services contract was announced today at the GE Oil & Gas 2013 Annual Meeting in Florence.

GM&T Singapore delivers LNG cargo to GAIL
Gazprom Marketing and Trading Singapore (GM&T Singapore), a 100% wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom Marketing & Trading, delivered a liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo for the commissioning of India’s Dabhol terminal.

GAIL commissions Dabhol LNG Terminal To double capacity to 10 mtpa
GAIL (India) Limited, the owner’s engineer of the LNG regas block of RGPPL, today successfully commissioned the Dabhol LNG terminal located at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra around 340 km south of Mumbai. Shri B. C. Tripathi, Chairman and Managing Director, GAIL, announced the development while interacting with the media in Mumbai and Delhi. The Dabhol LNG terminal would serve as a gateway for entry of natural gas to the southern and western parts of the country. The terminal is operated by RGPPL, a joint ventureof GAIL (India) Limited and NTPC as major share-holders and remaining equity being held by financial institutions and MSEB. GAIL,the commercial operator of the terminal, had arranged commissioning cargo for the terminal in December 2012.

Expro awarded first large bore subsea contract in India
Leading international oilfield services company, Expro, today announced the award of its first major subsea completion landing string contract in India.

BPCL's Rs 14,225-cr refinery expansion proj gets green nod
The Environment & Forests Ministry has granted environment clearance to the Rs 14,225 crore Integrated Refinery Expansion Project (IREP) of Bharat Petroleum Corporation to be implemented at Kochi Refinery Ltd. BPCL, Kochi Refinery, has a refining capacity of 9.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA), producing Euro-III/IV compliant auto-fuels and various other Petroleum Products, Kochi Refinery Ltd said in a release.

Agreement reached for $470m sale of GGCL stake
BG Group today announced it had reached agreement to sell its majority interest in India’s Gujarat Gas Company Limited (GGCL) for approximately INR 24.6 billion or $470 million to GSPC Distribution Networks Limited, a subsidiary of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation.