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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 […]

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 […]