
Alberta
Canada Key Projects and Business Highlights The projects and acquisitions announced on first half 2013 by the international oil companies (IOCs) such as Apache, BG Group (BG) , Chevron, ExxonMobil, Idemitsu, Shell or TransCanada, and by national oil companies (NOCs) such as China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina) or Petronas confirm the strategic evolution of the energy policy […]
Exxon and Imperial apply for West Coast LNG plant The super major company, ExxonMobil Corp (ExxonMobil) and its Canadian partner Imperial Oil (Imperial) submitted an application to the National Energy Board (NEB) to export up to 30 million t/y of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the British Columbia West Coast to Asia. With this initiative, […]
British Columbia LNG project in design competition The Malaysia national oil company Petronas and its partner Japan Petroleum Exploration Corporation Ltd (Japex) are opening a design competition for the greenfield Pacific Northwest LNG project in British Columbia, Canada. This decision came out after the completion of the acquisition of the Canadian company Progress Energy Resources […]
AltaGas and Idemitsu to build LNG facility on BC coast AltaGas Ltd (AltaGas) from Alberta in Canada and the Japanese Idemitsu Kosan Corporation Ltd (Idemitsu) have decided to form the 50/50 AltaGas Idemitsu Joint Venture Limited Partnership joint venture to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) from Canada to Asia. Since USA […]
CNPC to take $2.2 billion stake in Encana Duvernay The China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina) speeds up acquisitions of interests in Canada with the $2.2 billion offered to the local Encana for stake in the Duvernay oil sand project. According to the deal reached between the parties, PetroChina will take, through its wholly-owned subsidiary […]
Leading North American energy producer Born in 2002 in Calgary, Alberta, from the merger between PanCanadian Energy Corporation (PanCanadian Energy) and Alberta Energy Company Ltd (Alberta Energy), Encana is operating in oil and gas exploration and production in North America. Headquartered in Calgary, Encana is listed in Toronto and New York Stock exchanges. Created in the 1880s […]
Reaching new frontiers Sasol was established in Sasolburg in South Africa in 1950 to develop on industrial basis the Coal-To-Liquids (CTL) technology as this country is rich of coal and many other resources but holds limited oil and gas conventional fields. Sasol started up the first CTL plant in 1955 to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals. […]
Fluor takes on the toughest challenges Founded in 1912 in Santa Ana, California, as a construction company, Fluor became in 100 years one of the oldest and largest engineering company in the world. For its 100th anniversary, Fluor is engaged in more than 1,000 different projects in the world with its 43,000 employees. Fluor maintains […]