Front End Engineering and Design (FEED)
BP to develop Khazzan and Makarem in phase 1 BP revised significantly upward its capital expenditure in Oman Full Field Development project from $15 billion to $24 billion. Discovered in the 1990s, the huge reserves of natural gas in Center Oman have been left undeveloped because of the complexity and the potential costs related to […]
Shale gas boosts OCI into Iowa biggest investment ever The Iowa Fertilizer Company (IFC) a subsidiary of the Egyptian company Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) made the final investment decision (FID) to build a world-scale fertilizer plant in Iowa, USA. OCI selected the location near Wever, in the Lee County, southeastern Iowa, to develop its greenfield […]
Shell made FID on $2 billion Quest Athabasca CCS project Shell, Chevron and Marathon Oil (Marathon) made the final investment decision (FID) for the Quest CO² Capture Sequestration project through their Athabasca Oil Sands Project joint venture. In order to reduce the carbon footprint of the oil sands exploration and production in the Athabasca Oil […]
Hess awarded FEED for Semi-submersible on WA-390-P Block Established in New Jersey, the American Hess Corporation (Hess) is based in New York City, USA. Since 2007, Hess holds the 100% working interest of the WA-390-P Block offshore Western Australia to develop the Equus project. Equus is part of the $6.8 billion Hess’s capital expenditure budget […]
Woodside in talks with ExxonMobil, BHP and Hess Earlier this year, Woodside Petroleum (Woodside) and its partners Tokyo Gas Pluto Pty ltd (Tokyo gas) and Kansai Electric Power Australia Pty Ltd (Kansai Electric) started up operations of the Pluto LNG project. Tokyo Gas and Kansai Electric are in the same time the purchasers of Pluto gas […]
Geitungen rises Johan Sverdrup beyond Statoil’s expectations on Utsira High While Statoil and its partners, Maersk, Petoro, Det norske oljeselskap and Lundin, are running intensive discussions to develop the giant Johan Sverdrup fields, the Geitungen discovery confirms all the potential of the still unexplored Utsira High areas within the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Located 140 kilometers west […]
Zadco to extend Zirku oil processing and gas treatment The Abu Dhabi company Zakum Development Company Oil Company (Zadco) is a joint venture between the national oil company (NOC) Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the international oil companies (IOCs) ExxonMobil and the Japan Oil Development Company (JODCO). Zadco was created in 1977 to […]
Anadarko sold 7.2% Lucius stakes to welcome Inpex Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (Anadarko), formaly Kerr-Mc Gee, and its partners, Apache, Eni, ExxonMobil, Petrobras and Plains Exploration & Production (PXP), had sanctioned the development of the Lucius project in December 2011. In July 2012, Anadarko sold 7.2% of its interests in Lucius to Teikoku Oil, a wholly owned Inpex […]
