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Definition “JCC” is the acronym of Japanese Crude Cocktail or more formally Japan Customs-cleared Crude. This Japanese Crude Cocktail results from a basket of the most traded crude oils to be used as the reference price for long-term supply LNG Contracts. Japan created the JCC Contracts after the first oil shock, in the early 1970s, to secure its first […]
Sabine Pass LNG Terminal opens overseas export to Shale gas production Originally planned to be a LNG Import Terminal the Sabine Pass LNG project in Lousianna,USA, had been left in stand by for a while, until the Shale gas industry managed to put the domestic gas prices down below $4 per mmBTU with a great […]
ENI goes global in Petrochemical In the same time as ConocoPhillips revives the Phillips 66 brand to reposition its Downstream activities, ENI has decided to rename Polimeri Europa into Versalis. The new name represents a tangible sign of ENI‘s 2011 decision to relaunch its petrochemical business. Born in 1994 from the joint venture between Enichem and […]
Versalis (ENI) and Novamont innovate with the Porto Torres bio-chemical complex Matrica Spa is a 50:50 joint venture between Versalis, previously called Polimeri Europa (the biggest Italian chemical company, a subsidiary of Eni), and Novamont (a global market leader in biodegradable plastics). Matrica has the mission to design, build and operate chemical plants using vegetable oil […]
While Phillips 66 sells Trainer refinery to Delta Air Lines, BP will supply the crude. Phillips 66, the newly created company to take over the ConocoPhillips Downstream activities is going to sell its Trainer Refinery, close to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,USA, to Delta Air Lines for $150 million. This refinery has a capacity of 185,000b/d of light […]
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) will spend $4 billion in capital expenditure for this ethylene and propylene production facilities in Freeport, Texas, USA. This Olefins project illustrates the previous news about the consequences of the Shale gas to provide long term feedstock at very competitive price to the Downstream activities. As a good example of the relocation into USA of the petrochemical industry, this new ethylene […]
It is not every day that a Major company shakes up its Oil&Gas business model and introduce a new brand to re-position its strategy and consolidate its Market Leadership. But in July 2011, ConocoPhillips had announced to spin off all their Midstream and Downstream activities under the name of Phillips 66. On May 1st, 2012 […]
Mariner is the first field to be developed from the $9.6 billion capital expenditure Mariner & Bressay project located in the UK North Sea Because the offshore ultra heavy crude oil is one of the most challenging exploration & production of the Oil&Gas sector, Statoil decided to proceed step by step. Mariner will go first and Bressay will follow one […]
