
final investment decision (FID)
BW Offshore to take operation role in Tamar FLNG On February 19th, 2013, the Norwegian fleet operator BW Offshore (BW) announced to have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with the Dutch company Pangea LNG B.V. (Pangea) regarding Noble Energy (Noble) King floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project for the Tamar and Dalit gas fields […]
Chevron to spend $5.6 billion in Mafumeira Sul project Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Ltd (Cabinda), the Angola subsidiary of the California-based international oil company Chevron Corporation (Chevron) and its partners Sonangol, Total and Eni made the final investment decision (FID) regarding the Mafumeira Sul project. Located offshore Angola, the Mafumeira Sul project (Mafumeira South) is the expansion […]
Shell to start upstream and postpone LNG Trains Since November 2012, the Anglo-Dutch international company, Shell, and China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina) multiplied announcements to reconsider their Arrow LNG project in the Queensland in eastern Australia. Shell and PetroChina wholly own the Arrow LNG project through a 50/50 joint venture with the intention to invest […]
SINOMACH and CPC to build first Cambodia refinery On December 28th 2012, China Perfect Machinery Industry Corp (SINOMACH) and Cambodia Petrochemical Corporation (CPC) made the final investment decision (FID) to build the first crude oil refinery in the Kampong Som Petrochemical Industrial Zone along the southern coast in Cambodia. This $2.3 billion capital expenditure this […]
Hyundai Heavy Industries books $1.1 billion Topsides Statoil and its partners, OMV from Austria and ConocoPhillips from USA made the final investment decision (FID) and awarded the topsides, the most critical package, of the Aasta Hansteen project to Hyundai Heavy Industries. Previously named Luva, the Aasta Hansteen is located 300 kilometers offshore Norway by 1,300 […]
M&G to invest $1 billion in PET and PTA plants in USA The Italian company Mossi & Ghisolfi Gruppo (M&G Group) made the final investment decision (FID) for to build a greenfield polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants in Corpus Christi in Texas, USA. M&G Group is a wholly owned family company with […]
ExxonMobil and partners to invest $14 billion by 2017 ExxonMobil, Chevron, Suncor Energy (Suncor), Statoil and Nalcor Energy Oil and Gas (Nalcor) made the final investment decision (FID) to develop the Hebron offshore oil field project in Canada. The Hebron oil field is located offshore the Newfoundland and Labrador on Canada East Coast, in the […]
CNPC to pay BHP $1.6 billion for 10% of Browse LNG The super giant China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) is to acquire the 10% stakes held by BHP Billiton in the $40 billion capital expenditure Browse LNG project. In practice the transaction is based on PetroChina to pay $1.6 billion to BHP Billiton for: – […]