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Waste Management to monetize waste biogas into GTL Ventech Engineering International LLC (Ventech), Velocys plc (Velocys), Waste Management Inc. (Waste Management) and NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) formed a joint venture to develop and promote  gas-to-liquids (GTL) small-scale production units to monetize biogas and natural gas. These four companies are bringing together their respective expertise to take the […]

Kitsault LNG to include Dedicated Energy Corridor pipe The independent Canadian company Kitsault Energy (Kitsault) is proposing the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project offering the shortest way from the shale gas fields in the north of British Columbia in Canada to Asia. With a lot of natural resources and no unemployment issues, Canada is pushing […]

Oxy split ISND Expansion project in five EPC packages The state-owned company Qatar Petroleum (QP) and its US partner Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) are moving forward on the development of the Idd-Al-Shargi North Dome (ISND) fifth phase  project offshore the Qatar Peninsula in the Arabic Persian Gulf. Located 90 kilometers east of Doha, Idd-Al-Shargi is […]

Noble and Woodside terminated Leviathan MOU In May 2014, the Texas-based independent company Noble Energy Inc. (Noble) and the Australian national oil company (NOC) Woodside terminated their memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding their potential cooperation in the development of the giant non-associated gas field Leviathan offshore Israel in the Mediterranean Sea. This non-binding MOU had been […]

Stewart LNG to combine floating and onshore facilities The Canada Stewart Energy Group Ltd ( Stewart Energy) is planning to combine floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) production unit with conventional onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in order to boost the export of natural gas from British Columbia (BC) in western Canada to China. Registered […]

Sasol HDPE relocated from Lake Charles to LaPorte The Swiss-based Ineos Group AG (Ineos) and the South African petrochemical company Sasol Ltd (Sasol) made the final investment decision (FID) in their joint venture to build a greenfield bimodal high density polyethylene (HDPE) in LaPorte,Texas USA. On early 2013, Sasol had confirmed its intention to move forward […]

Total to focus on Caspian Sea Absheron gas field The French major Total and its partners, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and the other French oil and gas company GDF-Suez, are finalizing the conceptual design to develop the Absheron offshore gas field in the Azerbaijan Caspian Sea. This decision on the design to […]

Saudi Aramco at FEED for three shale gas projects Saudi Aramco is preparing to award front end engineering and design (FEED) contracts to develop shale gas reserves as pilot projects in three different basins of Saudi Arabia. Despite all the challenges to implement the hydraulic fracturing techniques in Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom is keen to […]

BFCL plans world-scale methanol and fertilizer plants The Lagos-based Brass Fertilizer Company Limited (BFCL or Brass Fertilizer) is planning to build world-scale gas treatment plant supported by methanol and nitrogen fertilizer facilities on the Brass Island in the State of Bayelsa in Nigeria. With the natural gas prices depressed as a consequence of the US […]

BG and CB&I review all options for Jackdaw design Based in Reading, east of London, the BG Group Ltd (BG) and its partners, Maersk from Denmark, GDF-Suez from France, OMV from Austria, ConocoPhillips from USA and JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration (JX Nippon) from Japan, are currently reviewing all the options with the support […]