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PTTGC – Pertamina to sign Java Complex joint venture The Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical plc (PTTGC) and the Indonesian national oil company (NOC) Pertamina are in final talks to establish a joint venture to build from greenfield a world-scale petrochemical complex in Java, Indonesia. This process is following up a heads of agreement (HOA) signed […]
EnQuest to award Kraken FPSO to Bumi Armada The Scottish joint venture made of Aberdeen-based EnQuest and First Oil plc ( First Oil) companies together with the Edinburgh-registered Cairn Energy plc (Cairn) have issued a letter of interim agreement (LOIA) to the Malaysian engineering company Bumi Armada (Bumi) for the design and construction of the […]
Oman Oil and IPIC to award Duqm Refinery FEED soon The national Oman Oil Company (Oman Oil or OOC) and the Abu Dhabi sovereign founds International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) are reaching the final evaluation stage of the commercial and technical bids submitted by international engineering companies to carry out the front end engineering and […]
CNPC and Total to double production with Halfaya-3 The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) and its partners, Total from France, Petronas from Malaysia and the local South Oil Company (SOC) confirm to target the plateau production of the Halfaya oil field in the south of Iraq by 2017 as originally defined. Halfaya oil […]
Abadi LNG to be expanded on conventional scheme The Japanese company Inpex and its Anglo-Dutch partner Shell have decided to use the conventional scheme, offshore – pipeline – onshore, to implement the full field development of the Abadi LNG project offshore Indonesia. With the Abadi project, Inpex and Shell intend to develop the Masela Block located at […]
Petrobras to prepare FEED tender for first GTL FPSO After years of feasibility studies and tests, Petrobras is readying to move on the first gas-to-liquid (GTL) floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel ever made in the world to stop flaring the associated gas released from the production of the pre-salt crude oil offshore Brazil. […]
Total to upsize Alberta Joslyn oil sand project by 50% After making the final investment decision (FID) on the Athabasca Fort Hills oil sand project in joint venture with Suncor Energy (Suncor), the French major company Total and its partners Suncor, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) and Inpex, are considering to revise upward the capacity of its […]
ADCO evaluate offers for NEB-3 Onshore EPC contract The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Operations (ADCO) is currently evaluating the offers for the third phase of the North East Bab (NEB-3) project onshore Abu Dhabi. As the other projects Upper Zakum, Umm Al-Lulu or Al-Nasr, NEB-3 is part of the giant […]
$2 billion Nasiriyah and Bin Umar Oil Depots delayed The national oil company (NOC) State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) has announced to postpone the tenders opening ceremony for the $2 billion oil storage depots project planned in the south of Iraq. Since the license rounds in 2009 and 2010 during which Baghdad Government awarded […]
Shell calls for bid St Joseph CEOR Pilot Vessel project The international oil company (IOC) Royal Dutch Shell is calling for bid a three year engineering contract to design and develop a pilot vessel to provide chemical enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) at the St Joseph oil field offshore the State of Sabah in Malaysia. This […]
