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Mad Dog: BP’s second giant field in Gulf of Mexico In September 2011, BP announced the drilling of a successful appraisal well in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the US Gulf of Mexico.  The well results confirm a significant resource extension for the Mad Dog Field complex, which includes […]

PTTEP bids above $1.9 billion cash to acquire Cove The state owned company PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Ltd (PTTEP) announced the terms of its new offer in cash to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Cove Energy plc. Since Shell and PTTEP from Thailand were competing to take over Cove Energy (Cove), Shell had made a first offer […]

Definition  BOE is the acronym of Barrel of Oil Equivalent – a unit of energy based on the approximate energy released by burning one barrel of Crude oil. One Barrel contains 42 US gallons or 158.9873 litres of light crude oil which will produce 5.8 × 106 British Thermal Units (million BTU or mBTU) according to the US […]

Total lowers Carbon Footprint with Power from Shore Previously called Hild, the Martin Linge development belongs to Total E&P Norge AS (51%), the operator, Petoro AS (30%) and Statoil Petroleum AS (19%). End of March, the Norwegian Government approved the development plan for the Martin Linge oil and gas field. Total capital expenditure is estimated to $4.2 […]

The $3.6 billion ERC Refinery to move on again  The Mostorod Refinery project had been left on hold for more than one year because of the political context in Egypt while Egyptian Refining Company (Takrir) S.A.E. (ERC), a special purpose company established by Citadel Capital, has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (ECP) contracts to a consortium of […]

Definition Tight gas is the name given to the unconventional natural gas because it is trapped in a very tight  underground hard rock, or sandstone or limestone formation that is unusually impermeable and non-porous called tight sand. Comments In a conventional natural gas deposit, once drilled, the gas can usually be extracted quite readily, and easily. A […]

BP to invest $15 billion to develop Oman tight gas BP’s Khazzan tight gas project in Block 61 is one of the company’s top five upstream projects globally. BP’s Khazzan project is also the first and largest of its kind in the Middle East. In January 2007 BP signed a major exploration and production sharing agreement with […]

Definition PMC is the acronym of Project Management Consultancy. It is the synonymous function of PMS, for Project Management Services. PMC or PMS refers to the function provided by the engineering companies contracted as consultant. This consultant supports the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical companies in supervising the good contract execution of the contracts awarded to […]

Lukoil awarded $1West Qurna Phase 2 to Samsung Engineering  Samsung Engineering officially signed a contract, worth approximately $1 billion, with LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd. (Lukoil) for the development of the West Qurna Phase 2 Contract Area and thereafter to  provide assistance to LUKOIL with its carrying out of the commissioning and start up. This engineering contract covers: –Project Management […]

Petrofac won the first Oil Central Processing Facility (CPF) The Gazprom Neft (Gazprom) Badra oil field is located in the Wasit Province at the Southeast of Iraq. The Badra oil field stakeholders are Gazprom, the operator with 30% share, then KOGAS with 22%, Petronas with 15%, TPAO with 7.5% The project will reach its full […]