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Cyprus selected Vassilikos to locate three LNG Trains The French major company, Total, is reported to have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the newly formed Cyprus National Hydrocarbons Company (CNHC) on the second liquefied natural gas (LNG) train of the Cyprus LNG project. Through this agreement Total is joining Noble Energy (Noble) from Houston, […]
BG Group opts for competitive FEED on QCLNG-2 The London-listed BG Group plc (BG) has decided to organize competitive bids on the front end engineering and design (FEED) for the expansion of its giant Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) project in the Southeast of Australia. In its first phase, the QCLNG project was the first one […]
QGEP gauges two FPSO sizes for Atlanta heavy crude The first Brazilian independent oil company Queiroz Galvao Exploration & Production (QGEP) and its partners, OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A (OGX) and Barra Energia do Brasil Petróleo e Gás Ltda (Barra Energia), are currently evaluating two different schemes to develop the offshore Block BS-4 and select the […]
Petronas calls for tender RAPID Package 8 EPCC The Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas has sent the invitation to bid (ITB) to the pre-qualified engineering companies for the Package 8 of the Refinery And Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project despite the one year delay announced earlier. With an estimated $20 billion capital expenditure, the […]
Julia phase-1 tied-back to Chevron Jack & St Malo The super major ExxonMobil from USA and Statoil from Norway, made the final investment decision (FID) in April 2013 to start the development of the Julia oil and gas field in the US part of the Gulf of Mexico. Drilled in 2007, 285 kilometers southwest of […]
Xodus completes FEED on Banda Gas production The Houston-based engineering company Xodus Group (Xodus) is currently completing the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for the development of the offshore Banda gas field as the upstream part of the Mauritania Gas-To-Power project. In a similar scheme to the Kudu Gas-To-Power project in Namibia, Tullow […]
British Columbia LNG project in design competition The Malaysia national oil company Petronas and its partner Japan Petroleum Exploration Corporation Ltd (Japex) are opening a design competition for the greenfield Pacific Northwest LNG project in British Columbia, Canada. This decision came out after the completion of the acquisition of the Canadian company Progress Energy Resources […]
Shell to replicate Pearl GTL with Lousiana GTL project Since the South Africa company Sasol had announced last year to select its site in Lake Charles in Westlake of Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana, Shell opted also for the Lousiana Gulf Coast for its gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in USA. At the CERAWeek, last year, Shell CEO Peter […]
