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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 […]

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 […]