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Azerbaijan Key Projects and Business highlights 2014 Occupying one of the richest coast of the Caspian Sea in oil and gas resources, the Republic of Azerbaijan is taking a strategic place between Asia and Europe, between Russia and Middle-East countries. Under the coordination of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) these oil and gas resources […]

KOC to drill 900 wells in Lower Fars heavy crude oil The wholly state-owned Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is planning to drill more than 900 wells to develop the heavy crude oil lying in the Lower Fars field in the north of Kuwait. Discovered in 1978, the Lower Fars formation belongs to the Ratqa field, […]

Texas and Louisiana race for Chinese methanol project The Chinese companies Connell Group (Connell) and Sino Life Insurance Corporation (Sino Life) are currently evaluating potential sites in Shoal Point, Texas, and Donaldsonville, Louisiana, to build and operate a world-scale methanol plant in USA. Based in Jilin, in the northeast of China, Connell is a chemical group […]

Petrobras Jupiter FPSO to learn from Lula development Petrobras and its partner, Galp Energia (Galp) from Portugal, are expecting to benefit from the lessons learnt in developing the Lula giant offshore pre-salt field to design the floating, processing, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels to be moored at Jupiter field to operate in similar conditions in […]

Chevron – Aramco – KOC validate Wafra Steamflooding  The California-based international oil company (IOC) Chevron Corporation (Chevron) and its local partners, Saudi Aramco and Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) have validated the steamflooding technology to develop the Wafra heavy crude oil field in the onshore Partitioned Zone (PZ) between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The Partitioned Zone […]

Yuhuang to invest $1.85 billion in St James Parish The Chinese Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Corporation Ltd (Shandong Yuhuang) has selected a site in St James Parish, Louisiana, to build its first overseas facilities under the name of Yuhuang Louisiana methanol project. Ranked among the top twenty five chemical group in China, Shandong Yuhuang is running $5 […]

Pemex to invest $6 billion to extend Akal lifetime The wholly state-owned company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is planning to invest up to $6 billion capital expenditure to stop the depletion of its giant Cantarell oil and gas field on the Mexican Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico. Located 80 kilometers offshore in the Bay […]

Saudi Arabia prioritizes Khurais and Shaybah capacity The national oil company Saudi Aramco selected the Khurais and Shaybah fields to increase Saudi Arabia crude oil production capacities.  Lying adjacent to one of the world largest oil field, the giant Ghawar, Khurais is also of a significant size at the scale of Saudi Arabia with the […]

GGOEX to monetize Nigerian gas with Gulf Methanol The local Junior company Gulf of Guinea Oil Exploration Limited (GGOEX) is investigating all opportunities to monetize natural gas in Nigeria through its purposely established subsidiary Gulf of Guinea Methanol Limited (GGML) to develop a world-scale methanol plant in the Niger Delta. At the end of 2012, […]

Steelhead LNG selects Sarita Bay on Vancouver Island Registered in Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.), the newly established company Steelhead LNG Corporation (Steelhead LNG) signed with the Huu-ay-aht First Nations (HFN) an Opportunity Development Agreement to jointly design and build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on the Sarita Bay on the west coast of Vancouver […]