East Africa
Thailand Key Projects and Business Highlights In Thailand the oil and gas and petrochemical activity is driven by the national oil company (NOC) PTT Public Company Limited (PTT) and its more know subsidiary PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Ltd (PTTEP) with the support of foreign majors such as Chevron or Mitsui Oil Exploration Company (Mitsui or MOECO) and independent […]
CB&I and Foster Wheeler in competitive pre-FEED The two super giant companies Rosneft from Russia and ExxonMobil from USA have awarded contracts to the engineering companies CB&I and Foster Wheeler Energy from USA to perform the first phase of the front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) for their joined project of liquefied natural gas (LNG) […]
Australia Key Projects and Business Highlights The first half of year has rang in Australia as a fresh wake up call on early morning when the major companies having interests in this country such as Apache, BG, BHP Billiton, Chevron, ExxonMobil, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina), Inpex, Shell, Total and even Woodside started to blow […]
Key Projects and Business Highlights If the global economy is running from one dip to another dip wondering which bubble will cause the next one, the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical sector is flying over all these issues with only one concern, how to go faster? This question comes back from all the corners of […]
Tanesco awards Mtwara Power Plant to Symbion-GE The Tanzania National Electrical Supply Company (Tanesco) signed a $1 billion contract with the US consortium of Symbion Power (Symbion) and the technology company General Electric International (GE) for the team of the Mtwara Power Plant and the expansion of the electrical power national grid in the south […]
Technip and JGC win Yamal LNG EPC contract The Russian Novatek and the international oil company (IOC) Total from France have selected, through their joint venture JSC Yamal LNG, the consortium made of Technip from France and JGC from Japan to build the liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant of their Yamal project. Located onshore, in […]
Mzia successful appraisal to justify BG two LNG trains The BG Group (BG) and its partner Ophir Energy (Ophir), both from UK, are pilling up natural gas reserves along their on going appraisal campaign offshore the east coast of Africa to the point to double the size of their liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in […]
Statoil to convert Zafarani high gas discovery into LNG In 2007, Statoil and ExxonMobil signed a production sharing contract (PSC) with the national oil company (NOC) Tanzania Petroleum Development Cooperation (TPDC) for the exploration and production of the Block 2 offshore Tanzania in the Indian Ocean. This Block 2 is located in southern Tanzania’s territorial […]
