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Timor Gap tendered Sunrise onshore LNG pre-FEED The Timor-Leste national oil company (NOC) Timor Gap tendered the pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) for a conventional onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in alternative to the floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) solution preferred by the Australian company Woodside Energy (Woodside), and its partners, ConocoPhillips from […]

TransCanada expands British Columbia NGTL System NOVA Gas Transmission Limited (NGTL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Calgary-based midstream company TransCanada Corporation (TransCanada), received the Canada National Energy Board (NEB) approval for its North Montney Mainline pipelines system project to be developed in the northeastern British Columbia. The North Montney Mainline pipeline project results from […]

South-Korea dreams about Creative Economy Squeezed between the ballooning China and the resisting Japan, South Korea used to see its economic future through its large industrial groups playing global and able to mobilize huge resources, especially after the 2008 financial crisis. Benefiting from global champions in the heavy industry as well as in the high […]

Oman and Iran signed gas pipeline Heads of Agreement During a Royal visit of Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said to Iran President Hassan Rouhani in April, the two countries signed a Heads of Agreement (HoA) for the construction of a natural gas pipeline across the Gulf of Oman. The discussions between Oman and Iran for […]

NefteGaz to add Delayed Coker in Afipsky Refinery The Russian NefteGazIndustriya LLC (NefteGaz) made the final investment decision (FID) to proceed with the expansion of its Afipsky Refinery in the Seversky District of the Krasnodar Territory on southwestern Russia. The Krasnodar Territory lies on the Black Sea east coast, in from of Crimea Peninsula, in […]

Smart Automation 2.0 to Create in China In the years 2000s, China was paddling hard to become the “World factory” with its competitive advantage of labor costs lower than the rest of the world to support its economical growth and provide jobs to its billion inhabitants. In that purpose all the Chinese Provinces rivaled from […]

Total Petrochemicals mulls over Port Arthur new cracker The French major company Total is looking West side of Atlantic for the expansion of its petrochemical activities with a greenfield ethylene cracker to be added on its existing Texas Port Arthur complex in USA. As most of the international oil companies (IOCs) Total is looking to take […]

KrisEnergy Lengo offshore East Java at FEED phase The Singapore-based KrisEnergy Ltd (KrisEnergy) and its partners, Awe Ltd (Awe) from Australia, and the local Satria Group companies PT Satria Energindo and PT Satria Wijayakusuma have decided to move into the front end engineering and design (FEED) phase for the development of the Lengo project within […]

Future of Manufacturing to fuel economic growth Since 2010, some developed countries released Future of manufacturing programs in order to relocate at home industrial activities with the goal to fuel a sustainable growth and create jobs. Each one of these countries branded its Future of manufacturing in its own way: – France – Usine du Futur […]

Funnel the Right Projects Much discussion has taken place on the current oil price situation where analysts don’t seem to be able to agree on the real root of the problem, nor on the actual forecast of this so-called crisis. But in Chinese language the word “crisis” is translated in the same word as “opportunity”, which […]