October 2012

Canadian Northern Gateway Pipeline to benefit from US shale gas pressure

Non-end drive to USA paves Enbridge way to Asia With the cancellation of the $16.2 billion Mackenzie Valley pipeline project, Canada integrates the new situation created in the USA with the exponential development of the shale gas these last years. Proposed in the 1970s and finally approved by the Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB), the […]

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Technip and Heerema sign alliance to go ultra deep

Joined expertise to focus on subsea EPCI contracts Technip, the French engineering company, and Heerema Marine Contractors, the Netherlands-based offshore contracting and services company, have signed a global alliance to join their respective expertise on the ultra deep water business. Home-based in Paris, France, Technip is one of the largest engineering company in the world

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OMV in brief

An international oil and gas company  Based in Vienna, OMV Aktiengesellschaft  (OMV) is one of Austria’s largest listed industrial companies with 29,800 employees in 2011 Historically, OMV is an integrated upstream–midstream–downstream company with activities mostly concentrated in Europe. Upstream, OMV explore and produce oil and gas in Romania and Austria and holds working interests all

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WorleyParsons and Intecsea to design Chevron Rosebank FPSO

Chevron Rosebank to unlock one fifth of UK’s reserves Chevron and its partners Statoil from Norway, OMV from Austria and Dong Energy (Dong) from Denmark selected WorleyParson and its subsidiary Intecsea to perform the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the facilities to develop the offshore Rosebank project in UK. The Rosebank field is

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Technip to complete FEED on Gabon Fertilizer project

Olam Fertilizer and Tata Chemicals to revise costs In April 2011, Olam, Tata and Gabon Government established a joint venture company called Gabon Fertilizer Company (GFC) to support the construction of a large ammonia and urea  fertilizer  plant. In September 2011, the Singapore-based Olam International (Olam), the Indian Tata Chemicals (Tata) and the Gabon Government selected Technip from France to perform the

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Petrochina in Brief

Energize – Harmonize – Realize The national oil company PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina) was established on November 1995, by the Chinese Government from the major restructuring of the oil and gas sector in China and of its national company at that time, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). In this operation the Chinese Government keeps holding 100%

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PetroChina, CNOOC and Missan Oil prepare tender for Iraq export pipeline

CNPC to connect Halfaya field to Al-Fao export terminal The joint venture between the national oil companies China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), also called PetroChina, together with its partners China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and the local Missan Oil Company (MOC) are preparing the call for tender of the export pipeline to connect the

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