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ONGC to boost India Western Offshore oil production The State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) company has made the final investment decision (FID) to proceed with the Redevelopment Mumbai High South Phase-3 project as part of its program to boost the crude oil and natural gas production from the India Western Offshore fields […]

Spectra to expand Algonquin and Maritimes Pipelines The midstream company Spectra Energy Corporation (Spectra) is planning to expand up northeast USA  the Algonquin Gas Transmission (Algonquin) system and Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline (Maritimes) with the Atlantic Bridge Project in order to pipe the shale gas from the giant Marcellus and Utica basins into New England […]

LNG Croatia to build Balkans LNG import terminal hub The Zagreb-registered company LNG Croatia LLC (LNG Croatia) is planning to build the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Croatia to become a strategic hub on the north of Adriatic Sea to supply the Balkans region and Eastern Europe countries up to Poland. When […]

BP to invest $12 billion in West Nile Delta development On the last months, the UK-based major BP and the German utility company RWE intensified their discussions with the Egyptian Government through its Egyptian Natural Gas Holding (EGAS) national oi company (NOC) to revive the stalled West Nile Delta (WND) development and proceed with the deep water […]

MHTL and G2X Energy build Louisiana Big Lake Fuels The Swiss-registered Methanol Holdings Trinidad Limited (MHTL) has decided to join the Houston-based G2X Energy Inc. (G2X Energy) to build Big Lake Fuels LLC (Big Lake Fuels) project, a world-scale methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) plant at Lake Charles in Louisiana, USA. With the main facilities in Point Lisa […]

2B1st Consulting wish you a Happy New Year 2015 2B1st Consulting is very pleased to wish you and your family a wonderful year 2015 full of joy, happiness and prosperity. We also expect you and your team to meet in this New Year all the success you deserve in the conquest of new Oil & Gas […]

USA Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014 The development of the shale gas in USA has continued to materialized in 2014 regardless the low prices of the local market around $4 per million BTU. The producing companies have fully integrated this situation and we assist to a concentration around the most competitive explorers with costs below […]

Thailand Key Projects and Business Highlights In Thailand the oil and gas and petrochemical activity is driven by the national oil company (NOC) PTT Public Company Limited (PTT) and its more know subsidiary PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Ltd (PTTEP) with the support of foreign majors such as Chevron or Mitsui Oil Exploration Company (Mitsui or MOECO) and independent […]

Saudi Arabia Projects and Business Highlights 2014 On the last five years, the national oil company (NOC) Saudi Aramco invested mostly in the downstream sector including large grassroot refineries and the largest petrochemical complexes in the world. But on the second half of the year 2014 we could see Saudi Aramco turning back to upstream activities to explorer new resources […]

India Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014 The Indian oil and gas sector is dominated at 70% by national oil companies (NOCs), the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and the Oil India Limited (OIL or Oil India) and completed by an active private sector well represented by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd […]