
feasibility study
Bluegrass Pipeline to feed Gulf Coast Petrochemicals The Oklahoma-based Williams and the Houston-headquartered Boardwalk Pipelines Partners (Boardwalk) signed a letter of intend (LOI) to form a joint venture on building the Bluegrass Pipeline project in USA to connect the Marcellus and Utica giant shale gas fields in the northeast to the petrochemical industry lying along […]
Horizon and Osaka Gas to ally in Papua New Guinea The Australian Horizon Oil Ltd (Horizon) and the large utility company Osaka Gas from Japan signed a strategic alliance to develop acreage gas fields in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for the production of condensate and liquefied natural gas (LNG). In November 2012, Horizon had announced to […]
Rosneft and ExxonMobil to export LNG from Russia During a visit in April on the Sakhalin-1 facilities, Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Victor Sechin announced his intention to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia in joint venture with his partner ExxonMobil in Sakhalin-1 on the far east of Russia. Mr Sechin indicated that this Russia […]
Saudi Arabia to work on Red Sea LNG Terminal Project The national oil company Saudi Aramco is considering again to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the Red Sea. In the previous years, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has already pushed and shelved this Red Sea LNG import terminal project. This stop-and-go attitude […]
RiCoal selected Rostov for its Petrochemical complex The Russian joint venture RiCoal Chemical Coal Plant (RiCoal) is planning to build a world-scale Coal-to-Olefin and petrochemical complex in Rostov-on-Don in the south of Russia. Estimated to require $2.5 billion capital expenditure, RiCoal selected Rostov-on-Don location because of available coal and natural gas available in the region and […]
Statoil prepares High North oil exploration in Norway In February 2013, Statoil and its partners, Eni from Italy and Petoro from Norway, presented the conclusions of their feasibility study for the development of the Skrugard and Havis offshore oil fields in the Norwegian territorial waters of the Barents Sea. The selected concept depends of course […]
SNC Lavalin won FEED contract for phase-1 to Aqaba On December 2012, the Iraq Ministry of Oil (MoO) presented in London, UK, Road Show, its Strategic Crude Oil Export Pipeline Infrastructure Project across Jordan, Syria and Turkey. During this London Road Show, the Ministry of Oil also detailed the phase-1 of the Strategic Crude Oil […]
KBR wins Azeri OGPC Gas Processing Plant PMC The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) selected the Houston-based engineering company KBR to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the gas processing plant (GPP) within its Oil & Gas Processing and Petrochemical Complex (OGPC) project in Azerbaijan. In April 2012, […]