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Adma-Opco to spend $50 million to reduce carbon footprint. Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Adma-Opco) is majority-owned by Abu Dhabi‘s state oil firm ADNOC with BP, Total, Inpex and Japan Oil Development Company as other share holders. Adma-Opco is the operator of the Das Island offshore oil and gas hub. In order to reduce the carbon footprint of […]
Doris to work on Maersk Chissonga FEED Maersk Oil (Maersk) , a fully owned subsidiary of A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S operates the Block 16, which includes the Chissonga discovery. Chissonga is located in the Lower Congo Basin some 138 kilometres offshore Angola in water depths 1,500 meters. In 2011, Maersk Oil acquired the 15% interest […]
Statoil, ENI and Petoro expect more to come from Skrugard and Havis exploration The Skrugard and Havis fields are located 5 kilometers from each other at a vertical depth of 1740 meters below sea level at a water depth of 388 meters in the PL532 licence area which was awarded in 2009 in connection with the […]
With Leviathan Noble turns Israel into gas exporter In 2009, Israel’s exploration partner Noble Energy discovered the Tamar field in the Levantine Basin, some 50 miles west of Israel’s port of Haifa and with an estimated 8.3 tcf (trillion cubic feet) of highest-quality natural gas. Tamar was the world’s largest gas discovery in 2009. Then, […]
Takreer moves on with $10 billion Ruwais Refinery expansion The Abu Dhabi Oil Refinery Company (Takreer) is moving on with its Ruwais refinery expansion in UAE. This refinery expansion will add a capacity of 400,000 b/d crude oil to the actual 417,000 b/d. The Capital expenditure is estimated around $10 billion The refining units should have the following capacities: – 59,800 b/d Unsaturated LPG treatment unit […]
Shell and QP plan $6.5 billion capital expenditure for the Ras Laffan petrochemical complex In 2011, Qatar Petroleum and Shell signed a Heads of Agreement for the Development of a World-scale petrochemicals Complex in in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar This agreement follows the conclusion of a joint feasibility study conducted by the partners, Qatar Petroleum and Shell. […]
Saudi Arabia to switch on Power Generation from Gas With oil price running steadily around $100 per barrel, the use of crude oil to feed Power Generation appeared more and more as a luxurious solution. Saudi Aramco launched a vast exploration and production campaign to identify all potential gas fields to substitute oil. As a […]
Statoil, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips rename Luva project into Aasta Hansteen During the concept selection Statoil estimated the development capital expenditure in the Aasta Hansteen field (formerly named Luva) at some $5.6 billion (NOK 34 billion). With a total hull weight of 45,000 ton, a length of 193 meters and a draught of 170 meters, the Aasta […]