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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 […]

Enbridge to connect 11 oil sands projects to Edmonton The Calgary-based midstream company Enbridge Inc. (Enbridge) has decided to merge the Athabasca Twin Pipeline project with the Wood Buffalo Extension Pipeline  project as part of its Regional Oil Sands System across the Province of Alberta in western Canada. Originally Enbridge had announced to proceed with these two pipelines […]

PTTEP and Chevron to tender 25 wellhead platforms The Thai national oil company (NOC) PTT Exploration and Production plc (PTTEP) and its partners, the California-based Chevron and the Japanese Mitsui Oil Exploration Corporation (Mitsui or MOECO) are preparing the call for tender for twenty five wellhead platforms for the expansion of the Bongkot and Arthit […]

PCIC Europe bridges manufacturing and process values As part of its technical program, the PCIC Europe Conference London 2015 will establish a bridge between the Future of Manufacturing values and the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical sector mostly driven as a process industries. Focusing on the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical industry, PCIC Europe is a non-for profit […]

CNOOC and Total consider Kingfisher modular design The State-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and its partners, the major Total from France and the independent company Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) from UK, are rethinking the conceptual design for the Kingfisher project in the Uganda Lake Albert gas fields in the light of the modular […]

Statoil and Sinochem add new platform in Peregrino II The state-owned companies Statoil from Norway and Sinochem from China, partnering in the offshore Peregrino field, submitted the plan of development (POD) for its southwest expansion in the Campos Basin to Brazil National agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuel (ANP). Despite its 14-degree API heavy […]

Aramco System A shale gas project at bidding stage The national oil company (NOC) Saudi Aramco set at March 15th 2015 the deadline for the engineering services companies to submit technical and commercial offers for the System A pilot project to develop shale gas fields in the north of the Kingdom. If Saudi Arabia is […]

PTTGC assesses Tri-States ethane cracker locations  Thailand national chemical group PTT Global Chemical plc (PTTGC) and its partner, the Japanese trading company Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) are concentrating their investigation on the three States, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, covering the giant Marcellus Basin to find the best location to build a world-scale ethane cracker to […]