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Williams to value oil sands Propane to export Propylene Williams Energy ( Williams) is planning to expand its existing facility located at Redwater, near Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, to produce polymer-grade propylene. In Canada, Williams developed a unique expertise to capture and convert all the off-gas by-products of the oil sands production in the upgraders […]
Definition E&P is the acronym of Exploration and Production in the oil and gas industry. E&P is also the synonymous of Upstream E&P or Exploration and Production or Upstream refer in the same way to all the oil and gas activities from the search of potential reserves to the first transformation of the crude oil or […]
After Eni, Talisman and Total, Sonatrach eyes on ExxonMobil and Shell After signing contracts with ENI from Italy, Talisman Energy (Talisman) and Total from France, Sonatrach is willing to attract ExxonMobil and Shell for the exploration and production of unconventional gas, shale gas and tight gas, in Algeria. According to recent studies performed by Sonatrach, […]
Definition Heads of Agreement (HOA) refers to the first document signed between parties in the perspective to go for a fully bidding contract. Heads of Agreement may also be called Shake hands Agreement and is different from Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Comments Parties willing to close a bidding agreement or contract are aware that such a process […]
Qatar to invest $25 billion in petrochemicals until 2020 In February 2012, Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Qatar Petrochemicals Corporation (Qapco) had signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) to add a $5.5 billion petrochemical complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. In this project QP and Qapco will share interests according to: – Qatar Petroleum 80% – Qapco 20% In Qapco […]
Definition Clean fuels appeared in the 1990s to refers to energies to be used in transportation applications as a substitute of the conventional diesel and gasoline. Since then the wording Clean Fuel has been adopted by refiners to designate the new diesel and gasoline developed to improve efficiency and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and […]
Saudi Aramco extends Jacobs’s FEED on $3 billion Ras Tanura Refinery Clean Fuel and Aromatics project In May 2011 Saudi Aramco awarded the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) to Jacobs ZATE for the Ras Tanura Refinery Clean Fuel and Aromatics project. Located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, along the Arabian Gulf, Ras […]
Shell signed with Horsehead for Pennsylvania site In March 2012, Shell signed with Horsehead Corp (Horsehead) a land option agreement on a 300 acre site for its $2.5 billion ethane cracker and petrochemical complex. This Appalachia ethane cracker project is a key milestone in Shell’s strategy to develop an upstream–downstream integrated business model to benefit from […]
