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Cheniere in route for Sabine Pass Stage-3 in Louisiana The Houston-based independent company Cheniere Energy Partners LLC (Cheniere) took a leap to develop its liquefied natural gas (LNG) Sabine Pass Stage-3 project in receiving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval for the construction of the Sabine Pass LNG Trains 5 and 6 at its […]

BASF selected US Texas Freeport for greenfield MTO The German chemical giant BASF SE (BASF) has selected its Freeport existing site on the Texas US Gulf Coast to build a greenfield Methane-To-Olefins (MTO) complex  based on the critical  methane-to-propylene (MTP)  conversion. While the Bundestag, the German Parliament, continues to debate about the opportunity to allow or […]

Industry Renaissance to relocate home the US industry USA branded their “Future of Manufacturing” program as “Industry Renaissance” in order to send a clear message that the time of the economy only based on services and happy few high technology champions is over. The transfer to China of the US manufacturing activities during a decade […]

Statoil celebrates Mdalasini-1 – Block-2 eighth success The Norwegian national oil company (NOC) Statoil and its partner the international oil company (IOC) ExxonMobil scored their eighth discovery in the Block-2 offshore gas fields concession in Tanzania on the East Africa. Following the successful discoveries of large gas fields in Mozambique, the East Africa coast is delivering […]

Noble and Delek ready to declare Aphrodite viable The US-based company Noble Energy (Noble) and its Israeli partner Delek Group (Delek) are nearing the point to declare the Aphrodite gas field in the Block 12 offshore Cyprus Island in the southeast of the Mediterranean Sea commercially viable. In August 2007, Noble acquired the Block 12 during […]

Cyber Physical Systems and Industry Digitalization  Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) refers to all the technologies enabling computerized resources and physical objects to interact together in a coordinated, reliable and continuous manner for performing multiple given tasks. These CPS may combine hardware and software from physic, biology, engineering and information technologies. The first examples of CPS appeared in […]

Sempra to capitalize on Cameron LNG project learnings The California-based midstream company Sempra Energy (Sempra) submitted a Pre-file application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project at Port Arthur in Texas, USA. With this initiative Sempra is willing to capitalize on its experience acquired from the Cameron […]

BG, EGAS and EGPC signed $4 billion on WDDM 9b The UK-based BG Group (BG) and its Malaysian partner Petronas  signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with the national oil companies Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) for the development of the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) Phase 9b project. […]

Future of Manufacturing to boost developed countries In order to present the “Future of Manufacturing” big picture we remind here the genesis of this concept and the basics about digital technologies. Then we shall introduce the main goals of this innovative approach. Over the last thirty years all the developed countries, except Germany, have seen […]

Definition Future of Manufacturing refers to all the technologies such as industrial digitalization or internet of the things (IoT) to interconnect all the industrial processes required to design, produce and deliver goods, equipment or entire systems to a client in mobilizing optimized resources wherever they could be located and regardless where they stand in the […]