Canada
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 […]
EIA to adopt North Sea Brent crude oil as benchmark US Government energy agency, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) published in its annual energy out look its decision to replace the historical West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil traded on New York Mercantile Exchange by the European Brent listed on the Inter Continental Exchange (ICE). […]
China National Offshore Oil Corporation The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is the Chinese third largest oil and gas company in China after PetroChina (CNPC) and Sinopec. Based in Hong Kong, CNOOC was established in 1999 to develop the offshore resources in complement of PetroChina focusing on the onshore exploration and production and Sinopec […]
CNOOC and Petronas to acquire Nexen and Progress On December 7th, 2012, Canada Prime Minister John Harper announced the approval for two national oil companies China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) and Petronas from Malaysia to acquire respectively: – Nexen Inc. (Nexen) – Progress Energy Resources Corp. (Progress) For Nexen, CNOOC is ready to pay $15.1 […]
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. […]
Resources and Energy With Headoffice in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, WorleyParsons was established in 2004 from the acquisition of the Californian engineering company Parsons E&C by the Australian Worley. Parsons E&C had a long history since 1944 in the downstream sector, refining, petrochemicals and power. Worley was established under the actual form in 1987 from […]
Fluor selected for Shell downstream projects in EMEA On November 2nd, 2012, Shell and the US Fluor Corporation (Fluor) signed a 5 years enterprise framework agreement for engineering and management services. On November 15th, 2012, it was the turn of the Paris-based Technip to ink with Shell Global Solutions a similar 5 years frame agreement. […]
Global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier Foster Wheeler had its headquarter in New York City, New Jersey, USA, until 2007 to relocate it in Geneva in Switzerland since then as Foster Wheeler AG (Foster Wheeler).The actual Foster Wheeler company was established in 1927 as the result of the merger between the Power […]
