One day – One Project
BP to consider Clair Phase-3 as stand alone project The UK super major BP and its partners, Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), ConocoPhillips and Chevron, are getting now a better picture of the giant Clair reservoir to the point to prepare Greater Clair as the third phase of development in the West Shetland waters of the […]
Enterprise selects Mont Belvieu for its ethane terminal The natural gas liquids (NGL) midstream US specialist Enterprise Products Partners LP (Enterprise or EPP) has decided to build a giant ethane export terminal in its hub of Mont Belvieu, on the Texas Gulf Coast in USA. These last months, Enterprise multiplied the projects announcements of greenfield projects […]
Statoil at the drawing board to save costs on Bressay The Norwegian State-owned company Statoil and its partner, the Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), are considering all options in order to reduce costs for the development of the heavy crude oil offshore project, Bressay, in the UK North Sea. In November 2013, while Statoil and Shell were expected […]
BP considers to invest $1 billion in Duqm Acetic Acid The UK-based international oil company BP is considering to build a greenfield acetic acid plant at Duqm in the south of Oman using newly developed SaaBre technology. For years BP is well known to have concentrated its capital expenditure and technical expertise on the upstream sector […]
CNOOC to tender one FEED for two TLPs in Liuhua The national oil company (NOC) China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) made its mind up regarding the conceptual design to be used for the development of the offshore oil and gas fields Liuhua 11-1 and Liuhua 16-2 in favor two tension legs platforms (TLPs) to […]
Kazakhstan to monetize associated gas with GTL plant Chaired by ex BP CEO, Tony Hayward, the innovative company CompactGTL Limited (CompactGTL) signed a memorandum of co-operation with the Ministry of Oil and Gas in Kazakhstan to build in this country the first small-scale gas-to-liquid (GTL) facility in the world. With this project Kazakhstan is willing […]
XER to combine Teekay-Sevan FSO with Arup Platform The Aberdeen-based Xcite Energy Resources Limited (Xcite or XER) company selected the conceptual design to develop its heavy crude oil field, Bentley offshore the Shetland Islands in the UK North Sea in combining a Teekay Sevan-type floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel together with Arup ACE steel […]
Sabic and Shell start Sadaf Polyurethane FEED work The international oil company (IOC) Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and the global petrochemical group Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) have agreed to expand their joint venture Saudi Petrochemical Company (Sadaf) with the addition of world-scale polyolefins production units on their existing site in the Al-Jubail Industrial Zone […]
