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Siemens has signed with the local Saudi Industrial Property Authority for the construction of manufacturing and servicing facility in Dammam for gas turbines, compressors, and steam recovery generators. The facility will be a center of technological excellence and a job engine for the local market. Siemens has been active in Saudi Arabia for over 75 […]

Abu Dhabi’s Zakum Development Company’s (ZADCO) mandate was to develop the Upper Zakum field on behalf of ADNOC and for the benefit of the shareholders: ADNOC 60%, ExxonMobil 28% through its local subsidiary ExxonMobil Abu Dhabi Offshore Petroleum Company Ltd. (EMAD), and Japan Oil Development Company Ltd. (Jodco) holding the remaining 12%. ExxonMobil, ADNOC and Jodco will jointly provide […]

Definition: “TLP” is the acronym of  Tension Leg Platform. This name is used for offshore platform designed to have buoyancy in excess to be balanced in connecting the platform to the sea bed with long steel tubular structure called tendons. These tendons guaranty the stability of the platform in all dimensions regardless the waves and sea […]

The Johan Sverdrup giant oil field is the largest oil field discovery in 2011 in the World and the fifth biggest ever in Norway. It is located 140 km west of Stavanger and sitting by 110 m water depth and about 2000 m deep below the sea level. Statoil and Lundin from Sweden are the main owners of this field, […]

Definition: “Subsea Electrical System” refers to all the solutions to transport and distribute electrical power from the land or an Offshore operating unit, such as platform or FPSO, to supply seabed operating units like compressors, pumps, valves, etc… Comments: Normally electricity and water do not fit too well together, so it may look strange to consider such […]

The Johan Sverdrup giant oil field is the largest oil field discovery in 2011 in the World and the fifth biggest ever in Norway. It is located 140 kM west of Stavanger and sitting by 110 M water depth and about 2000 m deep below the sea level. The Swedish Lundin and Statoil were exploring […]

K5 is located about 230km from Bintulu, in water depth of 80 metres. Discovered in 1970, K5 is a sour gas field offshore Sarawak in eastern Malaysia. It had been left undeveloped as it contains up to 70 % carbon dioxide (CO²)  content. Anyway, Petronas and Total have now signed a heads of agreement to jointly study its […]

Definition: “CCS” stands for Capture Compression and Sequestration. This operation is directly related to the Carbone Dioxide (CO²). Comments: As reflected by the acronym, CCS require three different operations: Capture: The Capture of the CO² is not always easy, it depends very much where the CO² comes from, mixed with Oil & Gas, produced out […]

Husky Energy from Canada and CNOOC from China own each of the Madura fields, BD, MDA & MBH, in the Madura Straight on East Java, Indonesia. The remaining 20% belongs to the local Samudra Energy. The  Madura BD project is well in progress as decision was made last year to go for a FPSO to process […]

The national India Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is a major local offshore drilling rigs operator and still intends to do so as to support the off Eastern India Oil & Gas fields development. With more than 120 blocks to explore, ONGC will have to ramp up its drilling rigs fleet. Most of its […]