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Cheniere secured first phase Sabine Pass LNG funding In February, the private equity firm Blackstone Group LP (Blackstone) provided Cheniere Energy Partners (Cheniere) with $2 billion to finance Sabine Pass LNG Export Terminal conversion project. Since then Cheniere had appointed eight financial institutions to raise up to $4 billion in debt to complete the financing. As […]
Enterprise to leverage its midstream Market Leadership with booming downstream in USA Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) is planning to build one of the world’s largest Propane DeHydrogenation (PDH) unit and Polymer Grade Propylene (PGP) unit in Texas, USA. These PDH and PGP projects are directly related to profitable development of NGL-rich natural gas production. With […]
Shale gas to help Celanese integration business model Celanese Corporation (Celanese) is a global technology and specialty materials company owning and operating a large acetyl complex at Clear Lake, close to Houston, Texas, USA. The positive developments in the U.S. energy complex to become a net gas exporter creates favorable conditions to explore all the […]
From Shale gas to Polyolefins ExxonMobil implements its integrated business model The Houston based Exxon Mobil Corp. is considering a multi-billion-dollar expansion of its giant petrochemical complex in Baytown, Texas, USA. ExxonMobil, like Chevron, Dow Chemicals or Shell, is looking to take advantage of a surplus of natural gas that’s pushed Henry hub prices near 10-year lows […]
Gas prices and high costs dictate to rethink Shtokman The foreseen capital expenditure for the Shtokman gas field development came up from first estimated $15 billion to $30-40 billion. This costs escalation is resulting from multiple factors including the combined target to produce 50/50 natural gas and LNG. This goal appeared to have a great impact on […]
Definition BOE is the acronym of Barrel of Oil Equivalent – a unit of energy based on the approximate energy released by burning one barrel of Crude oil. One Barrel contains 42 US gallons or 158.9873 litres of light crude oil which will produce 5.8 × 106 British Thermal Units (million BTU or mBTU) according to the US […]
Two leaders build energy Market Leadership with coal gasification Shenua Group (Shenua), from China, and GE, from USA, create the new GE Shenhua Gasification Technology Company Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture (JV) with Headquarter located in Shanghai, China. The firm will sell industrial gasification technology licenses in China, conduct research to improve cost and performance. The company has registered capital of $6 million. Patents and proceeds obtained by the joint venture will be shared evenly. The cooperation is also part of Sino-US joint efforts to develop clean energy, and gasification is a crucial component of that goal. China and USA hold respectively the first and second biggest […]
Definition The coal gasification is a technology that converts coal into a synthesis gas (or syngas) that can then be used to produce chemicals or other products. The syngas produced from coal is also called “Town gas“. The syngas is a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour (H2O) Comments The syngas issued […]