NORTH AMERICA Fuel Fix Does a 1,000-mile, international pipeline need a permit?

? - Canadian pipeline company Enbridge plans to spend nearly $7 billion building more than 1,000 miles of pipeline from Alberta to Wisconsin all without a new presidential permit. Energy XXI, EPL Oil & Gas to merge in $2.3 billion deal - Oil & Gas Journal - The merger, once closed, will make Energy XXI the largest public independent on the Gulf of Mexico shelf with production of about 65,000 boe/d, 70% of which will be oil. - EPL owns working interests in 37 producing fields, mainly concentrated within nine core producing areas. An estimated 91% of proved reserves, 88% of production, and 91% of revenues are associated with the Ship Shoal, East Bay, South Timbalier, South Pass 78 and 49, West Delta, Main Pass, Eugene Island, and South Marsh complexes. LATIN AMERICA Petrobras Said to Return to Bond Market to Fund $221 Billion - Bloomberg - Petrobras plans to sell three- and six-year fixed- and floating-rate notes as well as 10- and 30-year fixed-rate bonds denominated in dollars, according to a person familiar with the offering. EUROPE South Stream pipeline project moves forward - Oil & Gas Journal - South Stream Transporta consortium of Gazprom, Italys Eni SPA, Frances Electricite de France (EDF), and Germanys Wintershall Holding GMBHon Jan. 29 signed a contract and launched a tender among Russian and German pipe plants for the procurement of more than 75,000, 12-m pipes with a diameter of 813 m for the first string AFRICA Libya Vows to Block Tanker Attempt to Lift Oil in Rebel Port - Bloomberg - The vessel arrived on March 8 in Es Sider, the nations largest oil-export terminal, after Libyan armed forces refused government orders to fire on the ship, Prime Minister Ali Zaidan said in Tripoli, the capital. Tullow Suspends Work Off Guinea as Partner Investigated by U.S. - Businessweek - A U.S. probe into Hyperdynamics Corp. means Tullow, which had planned to start drilling a deepwater well by April 1, is unable to meet its contractual obligations. Repsol to Spend $95 Million Drilling in Namibia, Government Says - Businessweek - Repsol, which has a 44 percent interest in offshore license 0010, is operator of Block 1911 where the Welwitschia-1 well will be drilled next month, Petroleum Commissioner Immanuel Mulunga said in a phone interview today. Transnet to Raise South Africas Oil, Gas Pipeline Prices 5.1% - Bloomberg - Allowable revenue will increase to 2.9 billion rand ($269 million) in the 12 months through March 2015 from 2.8 billion rand in the current year, the Pretoria-based regulator said in an e-mailed statement today. - Transnet charges producers including Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and BP Plc for use of its 3,800 kilometers (2,361 miles) of oil and gas pipelines that traverse five provinces, including the route between the east-coast city of Durban, where most refineries are located, and Johannesburg, the countrys economic hub.