April 2014

Petronas short lists bidders on Sarawak Kasawari Expansion project

Petronas plans Malaysia Block SK 316 second platform The Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas is qualifying the engineering companies and contractors to be invited to bid (ITB) for a second platform to be installed on the Block SK 316 to develop the Kasawari gas field offshore the Sarawak Province in Malaysia. Since 2011, Petronas accumulated […]

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Final decision on Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC)

Petronas RAPID to go ahead as part of Malaysia PIPC In making the final investment decision (FID) on the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC), the Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas is triggering the execution phase of the Refinery And Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project in the south Johor next to Singapore. With RAPID as

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US Jordan Cove LNG project received non-FTA countries approval

Veresen ready to start Jordan Cove LNG construction The Canadian midstream company Veresen Inc. (Veresen) took a leap in receiving from the US Department of Energy (DOE) the precious approval for exporting to the non-free trade agreement (non-FTA) countries liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its Jordan Cove LNG Export Terminal  project in Oregon, on the West

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Shell and Petronas gear up in Iraq Majnoon Full Field Field Development

Foster Wheeler and Kentz at FEED work on Majnoon The international oil company (IOC) Royal Dutch-Shell (Shell) and its partners, the Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas and the local South Oil Company (SOC or South Oil)) are making major decision to gear up from the previous start-up phase to the full field development (FFD)

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Tullow and Africa Oil reach threshold in Kenya South Lokichar Basin

Tullow and Africa Oil prepare Lokichar Development The independent company Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) from UK and the Vancouver-based Africa Oil Corporation (Africa Oil) have accumulated sufficient reserves over the last two years to reach the threshold to develop the Blocks 10BB and 10A of the South Lokichar Basin in the north of Kenya in

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Two Singapore LNG Terminals in view to become Asia LNG hub

SLNG to call for tender first LNG Terminal Expansion While the state-owned midstream company Singapore LNG Corporation Pte Ltd (SLNG) is still in the process to expand the first Singapore liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal through different phases, it is already considering further developments with the construction of a second LNG terminal around the Jurong

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Indian Farmers and Coop fédérée start Quebec Fertilizer design

Indian Farmers selected Becancour Waterfront site The Indian Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative (IFFCO) and the local Coop fédérée are moving into the design phase for a world-scale nitrogen fertilizer plant to be located in the Becancour Waterfront Industrial Park of the Quebec Province in Canada. Established in 1967, IFFCO is registered in India as a multi-states co-operative society

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Magellan Midstream to expand Corpus Christi Terminal in Texas

Magellan Midstream to add gas condensate splitter Magellan Midstream Partners (MMP or Magellan) from Oklahoma in USA signed export agreement with the Dutch trading company Trafigura Beheer BV (Trafigura) to expand the Corpus Christi Terminal in Texas with a condensate splitter. As a midstream company, Magellan is owning and operating the longest pipeline system for the

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Petrixo selects Fujairah to build first bio-fuel refinery in the Gulf

UAE to lead bio-fuel technologies in the Gulf countries Petrixo Oil & Gas (Petrixo) from Dubai and a consortium made of Etihad Airways (Etihad), Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology from Abu Dhabi multiply initiatives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to take the lead of the bio-fuel technologies in

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Nigeria to develop gas-based downstream industries

Honeywell and USTDA to help Nigeria gas monetization The US automation and technology company Honeywell Group (Honeywell) and the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) signed an agreement to jointly finance a feasibility study to develop gas-based downstream industries in Nigeria. In Africa, Nigeria is the largest owner of proven reserves of natural gas

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