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Kazakhstan – Turkmenistan Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014 Kazakhstan is the second largest after Russia producer of crude oil from the former Soviet Union, it also holds the second largest reserves. More than 40% of the oil and gas production is coming from the famous Tengiz and Karagchaganak. With the support of the international […]
Iraq Key projects and Business Highlights 2014 After the licenses rounds in 2009 and 2010 to award the development of the major oil and gas fields in Iraq all the winning companies such as BP, ExxonMobil, Shell, Petronas, Gazprom, Lukoil, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina), Sinopec,TPAO or Total spent a couple of years to […]
Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014 Over the last months the national oil company Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) has tried to draw conclusions from the lessons hardly learnt on last years with the consequences to delay projects and see the oil and gas production flattening despite the most massive capital expenditure invested in the world. […]
KOC to drill 900 wells in Lower Fars heavy crude oil The wholly state-owned Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is planning to drill more than 900 wells to develop the heavy crude oil lying in the Lower Fars field in the north of Kuwait. Discovered in 1978, the Lower Fars formation belongs to the Ratqa field, […]
Texas and Louisiana race for Chinese methanol project The Chinese companies Connell Group (Connell) and Sino Life Insurance Corporation (Sino Life) are currently evaluating potential sites in Shoal Point, Texas, and Donaldsonville, Louisiana, to build and operate a world-scale methanol plant in USA. Based in Jilin, in the northeast of China, Connell is a chemical group […]
Chevron – Aramco – KOC validate Wafra Steamflooding The California-based international oil company (IOC) Chevron Corporation (Chevron) and its local partners, Saudi Aramco and Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) have validated the steamflooding technology to develop the Wafra heavy crude oil field in the onshore Partitioned Zone (PZ) between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The Partitioned Zone […]
Yuhuang to invest $1.85 billion in St James Parish The Chinese Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Corporation Ltd (Shandong Yuhuang) has selected a site in St James Parish, Louisiana, to build its first overseas facilities under the name of Yuhuang Louisiana methanol project. Ranked among the top twenty five chemical group in China, Shandong Yuhuang is running $5 […]
Pemex to invest $6 billion to extend Akal lifetime The wholly state-owned company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is planning to invest up to $6 billion capital expenditure to stop the depletion of its giant Cantarell oil and gas field on the Mexican Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico. Located 80 kilometers offshore in the Bay […]
