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Consol and Range to supply shale gas to Ineos cracker The US-based junior companies Consol Energy Inc. (Consol) and Range Resources Corporation (RRC or Range Resources)  signed long term agreements with the Swiss registered petrochemical company Ineos Group AG (Ineos)  to import shale gas from the USA to supply its ethylene cracker at Grangemouth complex in […]

Gendalo-Gehem bidders to include Indonesia partners The US major company Chevron and the Italian national oil company (NOC) Eni are reviewing the qualification of the contractors in competition for the floating production and offloading (FPO) vessels required for the development of the Gendalo and Gehem liquids-rich gas fields in the Makassar Strait offshore the East […]

Maire Tecnimont achieves FEED work on Al-Sejeel After awarding Al-Sejeel front end engineering and design (FEED) work to Maire Tecnimont, the national companies Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) are aligning the engineering companies willing to bid for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Al-Sejeel petrochemical project in Ras Laffan […]

Giant Pao de Acucar in Block BM-C-33 reaches FEED The giant discovery Pao de Acucar and its adjacent fields, Seat and Gavea, are reaching the front end engineering and design (FEED) stage to develop the prolific Block BM-C-33 pre-salt in the ultra deep water of the Campos Basin offshore Macae, in the State of Rio de […]

Sui Southern Gas in $1.4 billion deal with Engro Vopak The Pakistan midstream Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) is in final talks with the joint venture Engro Vopak Terminal Limited (EVTL) to build and operate a large greenfield liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at Port Qasim near Karachi in Pakistan. In parallel the Pakistan […]

Gazprom creates All-Russia Gas Chemistry Center In 2011, Salavatnefteorgsintez changed name to become JSC Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat (GNS) in order to support the creation of the All-Russia Gas Chemistry Center for the expansion project on the existing Volga petrochemical complex in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. This Gazprom–led project is part of the Russian Government […]

Sevan completed Bream-Mackerel FPSO pre-FEED The London-based junior company Premier Oil Limited (Premier Oil) and its partners, the State-owned Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company KSC (KUFPEC) and the FTSE-listed Tullow Oil (Tullow), are on the point to select the conceptual design to be used for the development of the Bream and Mackerel oil and gas fields offshore […]

Bapco to award Bahrain Refinery FEED and PMC The national oil company (NOC) Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) is currently evaluating the technical and commercial offers submitted by the engineering companies for the front end engineering and design (FEED)  and the project management consultancy (PMC) contracts related to the brownfield Sitra Refinery Expansion project in Bahrain. […]

BP Rumaila project includes CPS and IPC packages BP and its partnering national oil companies, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina), and Iraq State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) have called for tenders the Produced Water Re-Injection (PRWI) project to develop the giant Rumaila oil and gas field in the south of Iraq. Approximately 80 […]

CNOOC to award Liuhua 11-1 TLP FEED contract The state-owned company China National Oil Offshore Corporation (CNOOC) is finalizing the conceptual design for the expansion of the Liuhua 11-1 offshore oil and gas field within the South China Sea. Immediately after hammering the decision of the concepts to be developed, CNOOC will award the corresponding front […]