May 2013

Shell and Petronas to invest $1 billion in 2013 in Iraq Majnoon oil field

Shell and Petronas to double Majnoon production The super major Shell and its partners, the national oil companies Petronas from Malaysia and South Oil Company (SOC) from Iraq, are planning to invest up to $1 billion capital expenditure to double the production at the Majnoon oil field in the south of Iraq. Shell and its partners […]

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Anadarko at feasibility study on Offshore Mozambique LNG

Anadarko combines subsea and FPU in Rovuma Area-1 The Houston based Anadarko Petroleum  (Anadarko) and its partners  Mitsui E&P (Mitsui), BPRL Ventures Mozambique B.V. (BPRL), Videocon Mozambique Rovuma (Videocon), PTTEP and ENH, are exploring all the potential solutions for the offshore part of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the area-1 of the Rovuma Basin Offshore Mozambique. Since 2011, Anadarko accumulated major discoveries in the Area-1

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Petronas prepares FEED on Canada Pacific Northwest LNG project

British Columbia LNG project in design competition The Malaysia national oil company Petronas and its partner Japan Petroleum Exploration Corporation Ltd (Japex) are opening a design competition for the greenfield Pacific Northwest LNG project in British Columbia, Canada. This decision came out after the completion of the acquisition of the Canadian company Progress Energy Resources

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Total to focus on integrated Refinery and Petrochemical complex

Total to revamp and upgrade Belgium Antwerp complex After Gonfreville in France and Port Arthur in texas, USA, the French major Total is planning to invest $1.3 billion capital expenditure to revamp and upgrade its integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in Antwerp, Belgium. With a capacity of 360,000 barrels per day (b/d) Antwerp is the

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Rosneft and ExxonMobil to team up on $15 billion Sakhalin LNG project

Rosneft and ExxonMobil to export LNG from Russia During a visit in April on the Sakhalin-1 facilities, Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Victor Sechin announced his intention to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia in joint venture with his partner ExxonMobil in Sakhalin-1 on the far east of Russia. Mr Sechin indicated that this Russia

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Kuwait Refineries Clean Fuel Project at tendering stage for EPC

Daelim in the lead for KNPC Mina Al-Ahmadi FCC EPC Daelim Industrial from South Korea submitted the lowest bid for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of the Fluid Catalytic Convertor (FCC) and Sour Water Treatment package of the Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC) refinery at Mina Al-Ahmadi in Kuwait. With this first package to be

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Maersk and Sonangol to select bidders on Angola Chissonga

Chissonga FPSO and TLP to be tendered separately Maersk Oil and Gas A/S (Maersk) from Denmark, the national oil company Sonangol from Angola and Odebrecht from Brazil are proceeding to the selection of the contractors to be invited to bid on a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel and a tension leg wellhead platform

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Uruguay to go on his own with Montevideo LNG Regas Terminal

GDF-Suez to build and operate Uruguay LNG Terminal Gas Sayago, the joint venture between the  national oil company (NOC) Administracion Nacional de Combustibles, Alcohols y Portland (ANCAP) from Uruguay and the national power utility Administracion Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Electricas (UTE), awarded its Montevideo liquefied natural Gas (LNG) receiver terminal project to energy group GDF-Suez

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Shell in the race with Sasol for Lousiana largest project ever

Shell to replicate Pearl GTL with Lousiana GTL project Since the South Africa company Sasol had announced last year to select its site in Lake Charles in Westlake of Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana, Shell opted also for the Lousiana Gulf Coast for its gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in USA. At the CERAWeek, last year, Shell CEO Peter

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Petronas to start Baram Delta Gas Gathering project development

Malaysian RNZ wins FEED contract on Bardegg-2 The national oil company (NOC) Petronas selected the local engineering services provider RNZ Integrated (RNZ) to perform the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the Baram Delta Gas Gathering phase two (Bardegg-2) project on the Baronia field offshore Miri in the Sarawak province in Malaysia. In this

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