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Petronas Floating LNG awarded to Technip-Daewoo June 5th, 2012 – Technip-Daewoo Consortium has been awarded by Petronas a $2 billion contract for a Floating LNG (FLNG) unit in Malaysia Technip created a consortium with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) Co. Ltd., the Technip-Daewoo Consortium (TDC). Technip-Daewoo Consortium (TDC) was awarded by Petronas Floating LNG 1 (Labuan) Ltd, […]

Definition Flaring refers to the operation of sending to the flare for the atmospheric combustion the gases and sometimes the liquids which could not be processed in the cycle of production. Comments Flaring takes part of all the oil & gas and petrochemical processes, upstream and downstream, in order to control over-pressures which may come […]

Adma-Opco to spend $50 million to reduce carbon footprint. Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Adma-Opco)  is majority-owned by Abu Dhabi‘s state oil firm ADNOC with BP, Total, Inpex and Japan Oil Development Company as other share holders. Adma-Opco is the operator of the Das Island offshore oil and gas hub. In order to reduce the carbon footprint of […]

Sinopec and Mitsui to create world largest EPT plant Shanghai Sinopec Mitsui Elastomers Co., Ltd. was established on 28 May 2012 to build an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer (EPT) production plant in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park. The plant will use metallocene catalyst in its production. It will be the world’s largest and most advanced EPT production plant […]

 Definition EPT stands for Ethylene Propylene diene Terpolymer. ETP is the co-polymer of ethylene, propylene and diene EPT is also called EPDM by reference to Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer Comment The primary synthetic rubbers include nitrile, isoprene, styrene-butadiene, butyl, chloroprene, polysulfide, silicone, urethane and ethylene propylene diene terpolymer (ETP) or Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer (EPDM) The synthetics […]

From Shale gas to Polyolefins ExxonMobil implements its integrated business model The Houston based Exxon Mobil Corp. is considering a multi-billion-dollar expansion of its giant petrochemical complex in Baytown, Texas, USA. ExxonMobil, like Chevron, Dow Chemicals or Shell,  is looking to take advantage of a surplus of natural gas that’s pushed Henry hub prices near 10-year lows […]

Offshore Exploration and Production ban counts days Soon after the Macondo incident, Italy proposed a moratorium that came into force in August 2010. Italy’s Legislative Decree No. 128/10 (known as DL 128) prohibited offshore exploration and production activities involving liquid hydrocarbons within 5 miles of the Italian coast. In addition, offshore drilling activities located within […]

Definition FPSO is the acronym of Floating Production Storage and Offloading. A FPSO unit is a floating vessel used in the oil and gas industry to treat the oil and gas and condensates offshore before their transportation to the land by pipeline or shuttle vessels. Comments The FPSO is a multi-functions vessel for the processing of the oil […]

Doris to work on Maersk Chissonga FEED Maersk Oil (Maersk) , a fully owned subsidiary of A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S operates the Block 16, which includes the Chissonga discovery. Chissonga is located in the Lower Congo Basin some 138  kilometres offshore Angola in water depths 1,500 meters. In 2011, Maersk Oil acquired the 15% interest […]

Statoil, ENI and Petoro expect more to come from Skrugard and Havis exploration The Skrugard and Havis fields are located 5 kilometers from each other at a vertical depth of 1740 meters below sea level at a water depth of 388 meters in the PL532 licence area which was awarded in 2009 in connection with the […]