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OGC to link Saih Nihayda to Port of Duqm in Oman The state-owned Oman Gas Company SAOC (OGC) is preparing to award the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the construction of the gas pipeline between Saih Nihayda and the Port of Duqm in the Sultanate of Oman. As the main midstream company in […]

Shell, Sasol and Eni sign GTL agreements with ENH The Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) on one side and the tandem Sasol–Eni on another side signed these last weeks agreement with the national oil company (NOC) Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) to start feasibility studies on Gas-To-liquid (GTL) projects in Mozambique. During the last two years […]

Statoil preferred TLP concept for Snorre C on tie-back The Norwegian State-owned company Statoil and its partners, Petoro from Norway, ExxonMobil from USA, Idemitsu Petroleum (Idemitsu) from Japan, RWE from Germany, Core Energy from Norway preferred the tension leg platform (TLP) concept over a simple tie-back to develop Snorre C, the third phase of this […]

CB&I to complete ORPIC Liwa Plastics project FEED The engineering company CB&I is about to complete the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the petrochemical complex planned by the state-owned Oman Refinery and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) in Al-Liwa, near by Sohar in the north of Oman. As all the other countries in the […]

Quicksilver looks for partners for Discovery LNG in B.C. The junior Texas-based company Quicksilver Resources Inc. (Quicksilver) is looking for partners to share the opportunity to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Asia through the Discovery LNG project along the Campbell Channel on the Vancouver Island in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. Established at Fort Worth in Texas […]

Ascend chose propane dehydrogenation UOP Oleflex The Nylon specialist Ascend Performances Materials Operations LLC (Ascend) selected the UOP C3 Oleflex license for its propane dehydrogenation (PDH) project conducted by its local subsidiary C3 Petrochemicals LLC at Alvin, Brazoria County in Texas, USA. The investment fund SK Capital Partners is Ascend main stakeholder. As more and more […]

Enbridge received Canadian Government approval The Calgary-based midstream company Enbridge Inc. (Enbridge) received the formal approval from the Canadian Government to proceed with the as sensitive as strategic Northern Gateway Pipeline project to unlock Alberta bitumen reserves toward Asia export throughout British Columbia in western Canada.  For decades Canada has been exporting 99% of its […]

Shoaiba Storage tendered as In-Kingdom EPC contract Saudi Aramco is continuously adjusting its contractual strategy for the construction of the hydrocarbon bulk storage terminal planned at the mi-distance of the Saudi Arabia west coast on the Red Sea. Located 220 kilometers south of Jeddah, Shoaiba is the city on the west coast at the shortest […]

Mexico new constitution to boost Lakach development The State wholly-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is expecting the future constitution in Mexico to boost the development of the deep offshore gas field Lakach in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico. In 2005, Pemex launched a large exploration campaign in the Mexico deep water of the Gulf […]

Shell and Statoil compare EOR solutions to boost Vito The Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), the US independent company Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Anadarko) and the Norwegian national oil company (NOC) Statoil are mobilizing their best experts in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques to compare the different solutions to boost the production from the Vito oil and […]