USA Key Projects and Business Highlights In June 2013, the US energy agency, Energy Information Administration (EIA) updated its estimation of the shale gas reserves in the world and published its first estimations for the shale oil where USA ranks in the Top 5 countries in both cases. According to the 41 countries analyzed by the EIA, […]
Russia Key Projects and Business Highlights In acquiring TNK from BP, Rosneft became this first half 2013 the world largest oil & gas and petrochemical company, ahead of ExxonMobil or China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) in term of revenues, thus sending the signal that Russia intends to stay clearly in the lead of
Mexico Key Projects and Business Highlights Since 2004, when Mexico was able to produce 3.4 million barrels per day (b/d), this oil and gas giant managed to come down to 2.55 million b/d on first half 2013 due to a constitution concentrating in one state owned company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) all the responsibilities to explore and produce
Malaysia Key Projects and Business highlights On the first half 2013, Malaysia confirmed the previous trends to become a key players of the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical sector in Asia-Pacific region with Petrolian Nasional Bhd (Petronas) multiplying upstream and downstream initiatives with major international oil companies such as: Basf, ConocoPhillips, Murphy Oil Corporation (Murphy), Shell or Total. With
Kuwait Key Projects and Business Highlights Kuwait holds the sixth largest reserves of conventional crude oil and rank among the top 10 producing countries in the world attracting all the engineering and services companies such as Bechtel, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Fluor, Foster Wheeler, WorleyParsons, Daelim Industrial. Until 2008, the crude oil production in Kuwait was regularly increasing
Iraq Key Projects and Business Highlights The first half 2013 saw positive changes in Iraq with all the companies increasing the production of crude oil and natural gas, and with most of the international oil companies (IOCs) such as BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Petronas, Shell, Total proceeding to successful diplomatic moves either in signing farm-in agreements
Indonesia Key Projects and Business highlights Within the Asia-Pacific region, Indonesia popped up on the first half 2013 as one of the most dynamic country with the major international oil companies (IOCs) BP, Chevron, Eni, GDF-Suez, Inpex, PTTEP, Shell and Total competing to speed up their projects in exploration and production. Concentrated on the upstream
India Key Projects and Business Highlights As most of the emerging countries, India wanted to preserve its oil and gas resources access and related revenues to its national state owned and private oil companies Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Gujarat State Petroleum Company (GSPC), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL). As a consequence, in India as
Cameroon – Congo – Equatorial Guinea – Gabon Key Projects and Business Highlights On the Southern part of the Gulf of Guinea, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon saw major projects moving forward on the first half 2013 at the initiatives of major and junior companies involving Chevron, Compania Nacional de Petroleos de Guinea Ecuatorial (GE Petrol),
Ghana – Nigeria Key Projects and Business Highlights Around the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana and Nigeria appeared as the most active countries during the first half 2013 with upstream and downstream projects led by international and national companies such as Anadarko Petroleum (Anadarko), Eni, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Kosmos Energy (Kosmos), Lekoil Ltd (Lekoil), Sabre Oil and Gas (Sabre), Total, Tullow Oil plc (Tullow),
