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Statoil to consider FPSO for Castberg (Skrugard-Havis) Since the Skrugard and Havis project has been renamed as Johan Castberg, some significant changes have happened to justify Statoil from Norway and its partners, Eni from Italy and Petoro from Norway, to rethink the conceptual design of the project into a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) […]
Russian EuroChem to profit from US shale gas supply The Moscow-based company EuroChem signed an agreement with the State of Louisiana to invest $1.5 billion capital expenditure to build a greenfield fertilizer plant along the Mississippi River in USA. Established only in 2001, EuroChem has grown up very fast over its 12 years of life in […]
Stampede TLP to unitize Pony and Knotty discoveries Hess Corporation (Hess) and its partners, BHP Billiton (BHP) from Australia, Chevron from USA, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) from China through its Canadian acquisition Nexens, and Statoil from Norway, have selected the Japanese engineering company Modec to provide the Stampede project with a tension leg […]
Shell – Estonian Eesti Energia – Karak International Oil to explore and develop Jordan oil shale resources The Jordan Oil Shale Company (JOSCO), a wholly owned Shell subsidiary, the Estonia company Eesti Energia (Enefit) and Karak International Oil (Karak) from the UK–based Jordan Energy and Mining Ltd, are now moving from the exploration phases of […]
Petroleum Products Pipeline SA won first fuel pipeline The Petroleum Products Pipeline SA (3PL SA) has been awarded the construction of the first fuel pipeline in Cameroon. The Petroleum Products Pipeline SA is a joint venture between African investors let by the West Africa Investment Corporation (WAICO SA) and South Korean companies. WAICO SA is already […]
Basf Petronas Chemicals invest $500 million in Gebeng The German chemical global leader Basf and the Malaysian Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (Petronas) have decided to expand their joint venture Basf Petronas Chemicals (Basf–Petronas) with a world-scale integrated aroma ingredients complex at Gebeng, near Kuantan, on the east coast of the Malaysia peninsula. Through their Basf–Petronas joint venture,Basf and […]
Lekoil to join YFP, Chevron and Vitol in Block OML 113 The local junior company Lekoil Ltd (Lekoil) signed a Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Panoro Energy (Panoro) from Norway to acquire its stake of the Aje project in the Oil Mining Lease 113 (OML 113). This transaction will apply to 6.502% of the […]
Shell Batangas LNG project to go to FEED stage The Royal Dutch Shell Plc (Shell) is moving on the front end engineering and design (FEED) stage on the Batangas LNG import terminal project in Philippines. Working on this project for some years, Shell completed the feasibility study to build a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) […]
