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REI Cook Inlet project to feed Japan LNG Terminals The Japanese Alaska-based Resources Energy Inc. (REI), in joint venture with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA), is planning series of projects to export Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Cook Inlet Basin to Japan LNG import terminals. Leading to the City of Anchorage […]

Premier Oil and KUFPEC move Bream FPSO to FEED The London-based junior company Premier Oil plc (Premier Oil) and its partners, the national oil company (NOC) Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) and the other London-headquartered junior company Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) finalized the conceptual study for the development of the offshore Bream and Mackerel […]

KNPC NRP and PIC Al-Zour projects to be integrated The national oil company (NOC) Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC) and its sister state-owned company Petrochemical Industries Corporation (PIC) are working on the integration of their respective giant projects, the New Refinery Project (NRP) on one side and the Al-Zour Olefins and Aromatics Plants projects on […]

Kinder Morgan UTOPIA to export Utica NGL to Ontario The North America midstream leader Kinder Morgan Inc. (Kinder Morgan) is preparing, through its subsidiary Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P., the construction of the Utica to Ontario Pipeline Access (UTOPIA) pipeline to export refined or fractionated natural gas liquids (NGL) from the Utica shale gas basin […]

Husky adopts concrete gravity platform for WREP The Calgary-based Husky Oil Operations Limited (Husky) and its partners, Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor), also from Calgary, and Nalcor Energy (Nalcor) from Newfoundland and Labrador, completed the design for the White Rose Expansion Project (WREP) offshore the Newfoundland and Labrador Province on the Canada east Coast. Close to […]

Aramco Manifa Expansion to maintain KSA production The state-owned Saudi Aramco company is already considering the Manifa Expansion project as part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) strategy to maintain its full production capacity of crude oil in respect with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quotas. With a production capacity of […]

LyondellBasell concentrates investments in Texas, USA The global chemical and plastics manufacturer LyondellBasell is considering an additional expansion of the ethylene production on its Channelview facility in Texas USA. During the last twenty years, LyondellBasell has grown up pretty fast in Europe and North America mainly through acquisitions. The accumulation of debts to finance the acquisitions […]

Arrow awarded Bowen coal bed methane project FEED The international oil company (IOC) Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and the national oil company China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) have decided to move on their Australian 50/50 joint venture Arrow Energy Penty Ltd (Arrow) Bowen Gas Project (BGP) to the next phase in making the […]

PTT and Saudi Aramco to reduce Binh Dinh project size The national oil companies (NOC) Saudi Aramco from Saudi Arabia and the PTT Public Company Limited (PTT) from Thailand has decided to form a joint venture to build and operate the giant Binh Dinh Refinery and Petrochemical complex in the center of Vietnam. Despite the […]

Dominion and Piedmont will pipe gas to Duke and AGL The US-based midstream companies and utilities Dominion, Duke Energy (Duke), Piedmont Natural Gas (Piedmont), and AGL Resources (AGL) formed the joint venture Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC (Atlantic Coast) to design, build and operate a 800 kilometers gas pipeline along the US East Coast. This Atlantic […]