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USA Key Projects and Business Highlights In June 2013, the US energy agency, Energy Information Administration (EIA) updated its estimation of the shale gas reserves in the world and published its first estimations for the shale oil where USA ranks in the Top 5 countries in both cases. According to the 41 countries analyzed by the EIA, […]
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 […]
Australia Key Projects and Business Highlights The first half of year has rang in Australia as a fresh wake up call on early morning when the major companies having interests in this country such as Apache, BG, BHP Billiton, Chevron, ExxonMobil, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina), Inpex, Shell, Total and even Woodside started to blow […]
Stampede TLP to unitize Pony and Knotty discoveries Hess Corporation (Hess) and its partners, BHP Billiton (BHP) from Australia, Chevron from USA, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) from China through its Canadian acquisition Nexens, and Statoil from Norway, have selected the Japanese engineering company Modec to provide the Stampede project with a tension leg […]
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 […]
From UK to Turkey all Europe is working on shale gas In December 2012, UK made the most noticeable step in Europe when ending the moratorium on fracking process after the Blackpool tremors in 2011. At that time not only UK lifted the fraking ban but also unveiled tax breaks and advertised to become the […]
BASF awards Fluor Ludwigshafen TDI EPCM contract On February 19th 2013, the Germany-based BASF chemical company selected the Fluor from the USA to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the new toluene diisocyanate (TDI) production in the Ludwigshafen chemical complex. Ludwigshafen is already one of the largest chemical complex in the world […]
