November 2012

Perdido discoveries could double Pemex crude oil reserves

Supremus-1 and Trion-1 open Pemex new horizon The Mexican national oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) made two major discoveries in a month in the Perdido Fold Belt deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico. In August 2012, Trion-1, first Pemex’s successful well was drilled only 39 kilometers from the US territorial waters by 2,540 meters deepwater […]

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Pemex in brief

We build the Pemex of the Future Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was established as the Mexican national oil company in 1939 as a result of the Oil Industry Expropriation Presidential Decree.  In 1992, the Mexican Federal Government published a new Organic Law to position Pemex and its subsidiaries as a decentralized entity of the Federal Government

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Competitive US shale gas favor Pemex pipelines projects to Mexico

Pemex to import natural gas from Eagle Ford shale field The Mexican national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), through its international gas trading division MexGas International (MGI), is pursuing several pipelines projects to import natural gas from USA. In Mexico as in other countries, the price of the natural gas is a key driver of the performances

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BASF buys and increases capacity in Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI)

BASF to take parts of Poland Ciech’s TDI business On October 2012, the Ludwigshafen, Germany-based, BASF, acquired parts of Ciech Chemical Group’s (Ciech) Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI) business. This announcement comes in the same time as BASF is currently building the world largest single train TDI plant in Europe. BASF is a global leader in the

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BASF in Brief

We create chemistry for a sustainable future. Established in 1865, in Mannheim, Germany, under the name of Badische Anilin- and Soda-Fabrik, BASF’s first factory was finally built on the other bank of the River Rhein in Ludwigshafen in Bavaria, Germany. Since that time BASF became the world leading chemical company listed in Frankfurt, London and Zurich

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Dow Chemical awards Freeport Ethylene to Technip

Technip signs FEED contract for Dow Texas Operations October 2012, The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) selected Technip from France for the front end engineering and design (FEED) of its world scale ethylene project on the Gulf Coast, Texas, USA. Dow is the world largest manufacturer of olefin and polyolefin products. Based on ethylene cracking, the production costs are directly related

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State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) in brief

Producing oil and gas for the world Established in 1992 from the Azerineft State Concern and Azerneftkimya Production Association, the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) received the mandate as national oil company to :  – Improve the management structure of the oil and gas industry  – Develop the energy industry In this

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Petronas received bids on Yetagun North wellhead platform

Petronas to move on Burma Yetagun North expansion  The Yetagu gas field is located in southern Andaman Sea about 100 kilometers west offshore Myanmar coast line. Originally explored and developed by Texaco, Premier Oil and Nippon Oil Exploration (JX NOEX) , the American withdrew in the years 2000s because of the US sanctions against Myanmar. The Malaysian

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Saudi Arabia: the next country to develop shale gas

Saudi Aramco revises plans to explore shale gas Since Saudi Arabia is struggling to increase its natural gas production to meet its fast growing demand, the national oil company Saudi Aramco investigate all potential sources of supply, onshore and offshore, conventional and unconventional. The consumption of natural gas in Saudi Arabia is increasing very fast because

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