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Sitra Refinery expansion preliminary studies completed After multiple scenarios for revamping and expansion, the Minister of Energy in Bahrain, Dr. Abdul Hussain bin Ali Mirza, has announced the completion of the preliminary studies to modernize the Sitra refinery. The plan of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) aims to increase energy efficiency and increase production of high value […]
Definition Brownfield refers to project of expansion or revamping or services on an existing facility By opposition greenfield is the common word to describe a new project. Comments In that respect a brownfield investment covers also the situation where a company or government entity purchases or leases existing production facilities to launch a new production activity. This is one […]
Petrofac-Schlumberger won 30 years Pemex contract The Pánuco Area in Mexico contains four mature onshore fields operated by the Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). Discovered in the early 1900s with original oil in place of approximately 6.8 billion barrels, the Panuco oil fields have about 1,600 wells of which around 200 are currently producing a total of […]
Chevron to award FEED for Rosebank FPSO The Rosebank oil and gas field discovery is located on Blocks 213/26 and 213/27, in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, 130 km northwest of the Shetland Islands in 1,115 m of water depth on the Corona Ridge near the UK border. Rosebank is considered to be one of the biggest discoveries […]
Statoil and PetroFrontier signed deal on Southern Georgina Basin Statoil ASA (Statoil) from Norway and PetroFrontier Corp. (PetroFrontier) from Canada have signed a binding “Farm-in Agreement” to farm into shale gas PetroFrontier’s four exploration permits (EPs) and two exploration permit applications (EPAs) in the Southern Georgina Basin, Northern Territory, Australia. In this Farm-in-Agreement, Statoil will be the Farmor […]
China and India join forces in Exploration & Production Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) and Mr. Jiang Jiemin, Chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), on June 18, 2012 at New Delhi, India. This MoU signed between ONGC and […]
Sibur to provide Sinopec with patents and technologies China’s top refiner China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) has signed an agreement with Russian petrochemical Group Sibur to establish a joint venture in Shanghai, China, to produce synthetic rubber. The joint venture will use patents and technologies from Sibur to produce nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) and isoprene rubber […]
Foster Wheeler, Jacobs, KBR, Mustang and SNC Lavalin signed GES+ contracts with Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco’s General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) initiative requires that the majority of its engineering services requirements be conducted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in order to enhance the development of training and domestic employment opportunities. With the GES+ initiative, […]