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Sasol Louisiana complex triples US chemical production The South Africa-based refining and petrochemical company Sasol Limited (Sasol) made the final investment decision for the construction of its world-scale ethane cracker and derivatives complex as the expansion of its existing facilities in Lakes Charles, Louisiana, in USA. On very early days, Sasol realized the opportunity of the […]
Gladstone LNG and Tri-Star signed gas supply deal The Australia-Fisherman registered company Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd (LNG Ltd) signed through its wholly-owned subsidiary Gladstone LNG a non-binding memorandum of intent (MOI) with the Texas-based Tri-Star Petroleum Company (Tri-Star) for the gas supply to feed its Fisherman Landing Liquefied Natural Gas (FLLNG) project near Gladstone in […]
Premier Oil and KUFPEC move Bream FPSO to FEED The London-based junior company Premier Oil plc (Premier Oil) and its partners, the national oil company (NOC) Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) and the other London-headquartered junior company Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) finalized the conceptual study for the development of the offshore Bream and Mackerel […]
Aramco Manifa Expansion to maintain KSA production The state-owned Saudi Aramco company is already considering the Manifa Expansion project as part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) strategy to maintain its full production capacity of crude oil in respect with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quotas. With a production capacity of […]
Texas and Louisiana race for Chinese methanol project The Chinese companies Connell Group (Connell) and Sino Life Insurance Corporation (Sino Life) are currently evaluating potential sites in Shoal Point, Texas, and Donaldsonville, Louisiana, to build and operate a world-scale methanol plant in USA. Based in Jilin, in the northeast of China, Connell is a chemical group […]
Chevron – Aramco – KOC validate Wafra Steamflooding The California-based international oil company (IOC) Chevron Corporation (Chevron) and its local partners, Saudi Aramco and Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) have validated the steamflooding technology to develop the Wafra heavy crude oil field in the onshore Partitioned Zone (PZ) between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The Partitioned Zone […]
Statoil preferred TLP concept for Snorre C on tie-back The Norwegian State-owned company Statoil and its partners, Petoro from Norway, ExxonMobil from USA, Idemitsu Petroleum (Idemitsu) from Japan, RWE from Germany, Core Energy from Norway preferred the tension leg platform (TLP) concept over a simple tie-back to develop Snorre C, the third phase of this […]
Shoaiba Storage tendered as In-Kingdom EPC contract Saudi Aramco is continuously adjusting its contractual strategy for the construction of the hydrocarbon bulk storage terminal planned at the mi-distance of the Saudi Arabia west coast on the Red Sea. Located 220 kilometers south of Jeddah, Shoaiba is the city on the west coast at the shortest […]
