
Engineering Procurement and Construction
Rosneft and Exxon mobilize $3.2 billion as first step On April 2012, Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement to jointly explore and develop oil and gas fields in the Russian Black Sea and Kara Sea. This Strategic Agreement is supported by the: – Opportunity given to Rosneft to take stakes in ExxonMobil oil […]
GDF Suez, Centrica and Bayerngas sanction Cygnus development GDF Suez and its partners Centrica and Bayerngas awarded the detailed design contract to AMEC for the development of the Cygnus natural gas field in the UK continental shelf in the southern North Sea. Cygnus was discovered in 1988 in the blocks 44/12a and 44/11a. Then several appraisal […]
Gulf Coast to connect Cushing, OK, to Nederland, TX. TransCanada will build and operate the Gulf Coast oil pipeline project to connect Cushing, Oklahoma to Nederland in Texas. This crude oil pipeline is 780 km (485 miles) long and 36 inch large to transport 700,000 b/d of crude oil. This capacity may be expanded to […]
Adma-Opco to award $1.1 billion process packages at year end The Umm al Lulu and Satah al Rasboot (Sarb) offshore oil and gas fields are part of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) program to boost its oil production in order to meet its 1.75 million b/d quota targeted within OPEC on 2017. As offshore […]
Takreer awarded $2.47 billion on first half 2012 With the Ruwais Carbon black and delayed coker (CBDC) facilities, Abu Dhabi Refining Company (Takreer) awarded the only giant project in the UAE during the first half 2012. This downstream project came after a long period without major capital expenditure in the UAE since the Borealis and […]
$1.6 billion to build Taizhou Refinery and Aromatics China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), China’s third National Oil Company (NOC), has decided to build a new integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, in east China. The new refinery would process heavy crude oil pumped from China’s Bohai Bay, off north China, the […]
Tempa Rossa to lead oil and gas developments in Italy Total and Shell have made the final investment decision (FID) on the Tempa Rossa oil and gas field development project. Discovered in 1989, Tempa Rossa is located in the southern Apennines, at an altitude of 1,000 meters, on the unitized Gorgoglione concession, in the Basilicate region, […]
PCIC Middle East Conference to take place with ADIPEC on Nov 12th & 13th 2012 Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) organizes its 15th edition on November 11th to 14th 2012 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) in UAE. With more than 1,500 exhibitions and 45,000 attendees, ADIPEC is the largest exhibition in […]