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Rosneft to buy TNK-BP from BP and AAR for $55 billion On Monday 22nd, 2012, Rosneft makes double win over the TNK-BP internal disputes between its key stakeholders BP and Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR) in closing deal with both parties to take over their respective 50% shares. On Monday morning BP and Rosneft signed Heads of Terms […]

Among world top ten privately owned oil producers   Headquartered in Moscow, Russia, TNK-BP was established in 2003 from the merger between BP Russia oil and gas assets and the local consortium Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR). Created on a balanced base, BP and AAR‘s stakeholders agreed to own 50% each of the newly formed TNK-BP entity. Through […]

Non-end drive to USA paves Enbridge way to Asia With the cancellation of the $16.2 billion Mackenzie Valley pipeline project, Canada integrates the new situation created in the USA with the exponential development of the shale gas these last years. Proposed in the 1970s and finally approved by the Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB), the […]

Joined expertise to focus on subsea EPCI contracts Technip, the French engineering company, and Heerema Marine Contractors, the Netherlands-based offshore contracting and services company, have signed a global alliance to join their respective expertise on the ultra deep water business. Home-based in Paris, France, Technip is one of the largest engineering company in the world […]

An international oil and gas company  Based in Vienna, OMV Aktiengesellschaft  (OMV) is one of Austria’s largest listed industrial companies with 29,800 employees in 2011 Historically, OMV is an integrated upstream–midstream–downstream company with activities mostly concentrated in Europe. Upstream, OMV explore and produce oil and gas in Romania and Austria and holds working interests all […]

Chevron Rosebank to unlock one fifth of UK’s reserves Chevron and its partners Statoil from Norway, OMV from Austria and Dong Energy (Dong) from Denmark selected WorleyParson and its subsidiary Intecsea to perform the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the facilities to develop the offshore Rosebank project in UK. The Rosebank field is […]

BP and Shell explore successfully Nile Delta and Western Desert to secure oil and gas supply Then major international oil companies such as BP and Shell decided to extend their exploration and production programs in Egypt in order to secure a long term and sustainable supply in oil and gas to any downstream scheme. After […]

Leadership with Trust Established in 1939 at Mithapur in the State of Gujarat, India, Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL) is actually headquartered in Mumbai, in the State of Maharashtra, and belongs to the India group Tata. Tata Chemical is listed in the national stock exchange of India as TATACHEM separately from the Tata Group. Focusing on […]

Olam Fertilizer and Tata Chemicals to revise costs In April 2011, Olam, Tata and Gabon Government established a joint venture company called Gabon Fertilizer Company (GFC) to support the construction of a large ammonia and urea  fertilizer  plant. In September 2011, the Singapore-based Olam International (Olam), the Indian Tata Chemicals (Tata) and the Gabon Government selected Technip from France to perform the […]

Saudi Aramco chases natural gas onshore and offshore Saudi Arabia consumes 3 million barrels per day of crude oil for domestic consumption that could be substituted by natural gas. In the same time, Saudi Arabia holds 282.6 trillion scf of natural gas.reserves, ranking in the fourth position in the world.  When Saudi Aramco decided to […]