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Chevron validated chemical EOR to maintain Captain The Californian San Ramon-based international oil company (IOC) Chevron Corporation (Chevron) and its partner Dana Petroleum (Dana), a Korean National Oil Company‘s subsidiary, have validated the conclusions of the pilot study to test the performances of the chemical injection as the preferred enhanced oil recovery techniques (EOR) to maintain the production […]

Noble and Union Fenosa Gas signed Tamar gas supply The Texas-based companies Noble Energy (Noble) and Isramco Negev and their Israeli partners Delek Drilling, Avner Oil Exploration (Avner) and Dor Gas Exploration ( Dor Gas) signed a non-bidding letter of intend (LOI) with Union Fenosa Gas SA (UFG), the joint venture between Gas Natural from […]

Cronus to produce ammonia – urea in Tuscola – Illinois The Chicago-registered company Cronus Chemicals LLC (Cronus) has selected Tuscola in the State of Illinois to build a greenfield nitrogen fertilizer plant to produce ammonia and urea in USA. USA is the third largest consuming country of fertilizer in the world after China and India as […]

BC approved Lelu Island LNG trains and PRGT pipeline British Columbia Province Authorities have approved Petronas Pacific Northwest liquefied natural gas (PNW LNG) export terminal project and its related TransCanada Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline project on the Canada west coast. The joint venture Progress Energy Canada Ltd (Progress Energy) and its stakeholders, the national […]

Premier and Rockhopper to switch from TLP to FPSO The UK-based junior companies Premier Oil plc (Premier Oil) and Rockhopper Exploration plc (Rockhopper) are changing their strategy to develop the Sea Lion oil and gas project located offshore the Falklands Islands in the contested zone of the South Atlantic Ocean. Discovered in 1998, the Sea […]

YPFB completed Tarija Ethylene – Polyethylene FEED The wholly state-owned oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) is making good progress on its largest petrochemical complex after completing the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for the ethylene and polyethylene units to be built in the Gran Chaco Province within the southern Bolivia Department of […]

Ineos to feed Grangemouth with Scotland shale gas Introducing itself as “THE WORD FOR CHEMICALS”, the Swiss-based company Ineos is maneuvering a strategic breakthrough in planning $1 billion capital expenditure in UK shale gas to feed its petrochemical complex in Grangemouth, Scotland. Acquired from BP willing to focus on upstream activities, the Ineos Grangemouth refining and petrochemical complex occupies […]

Total Qatar Al Khalij Phase-4 to optimize oil production The French major Total SA (Total) and its local partner the national oil company (NOC) Qatar Petroleum (QP) are working on the Al Khalij Phase-4 project in considering the optimization along the next decades of the Al Khalij oil field exploration and production offshore Qatar in […]

PetroVietnam to boost Long Son Refinery project The national oil company (NOC) Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has bought stake from its sister State-owned company Vietnam National Chemical Group (Vinachem) in order to boost the development of the Long Son Refinery project in the Vung Tau Province of southern Vietnam in partnership with the […]

Total to develop West Shetland Tormore Oil Rim project The French international oil company (IOC) Total SA (Total) and its partner DONG Energy A/S (DONG) from Denmark are considering to develop the crude oil field discovered in rim of the Laggan-Tormore gas fields offshore West Shetland in the UK North Sea. Through its Laggan-Tormore gas field […]