
gas prices
Qatar Petroleum holds 10% of $3 billion Arzew project Since Total and Sonatrach had announced the giant Arzew petrochemical complex, the project had to be put on hold by the lack of ethane as feedstock to supply the cracker. This ethane should come from the Hassi R’meil natural gas fields, but transportation along the 500km to […]
Shell to become the biggest investor in Qatar Through giant projects like Qatargas LNG 4 and Pearl GTL, Shell has become a key player in Qatar. These projects requested more than $ 26 billion capital expenditure on the top of which Shell is planning additional $ 6 billion for a greenfield Ras Laffan olefin complex in joint […]
Petronas to pay $5.3 billion Progress Energy Resources The Malaysian NOC Petronas and the Canadian Progress Energy Resources (Progress) have signed an agreement for a friendly takeover of Progress by Petronas. The integration will be done through Petronas Canada to remain based in Calgary, Alberta, for upstream with commercial office in Vancouver,BC, for LNG. The […]
Definition Liquefaction refers to the physical transformation of gas into liquid. In the oil and gas industry this liquefaction of gas may be processed just by compression, just by refrigeration, or both in combination depending on the gas. Comments In most of the cases the gas liquefaction is performed for storage and transportation purpose. Previous […]
Liard Basin tops best shale gas fields in North America The Houston, Texas-based, Apache Corporation (Apache) announced the shale gas Liard Basin in British Columbia (BC), Canada, to contain 48 trillion cf of marketable natural gas. In addition the tests performed by Apache through three wells have reported that the shale gas of the Liard Basin is among “the […]
Gazprom to study underground gas storage in China Last May, China and Russia had terminated lengthy negotiations on their natural gas trading prices to drive the constructions of multiple gas pipelines between the two countries. China had made its best efforts to increase its offer from $0.235 per cm to $0.250 while Russia was ready to accept $0.300 per cm instead of $0.350. But the […]
Gas prices and high costs dictate to rethink Shtokman The foreseen capital expenditure for the Shtokman gas field development came up from first estimated $15 billion to $30-40 billion. This costs escalation is resulting from multiple factors including the combined target to produce 50/50 natural gas and LNG. This goal appeared to have a great impact on […]
Definition BOE is the acronym of Barrel of Oil Equivalent – a unit of energy based on the approximate energy released by burning one barrel of Crude oil. One Barrel contains 42 US gallons or 158.9873 litres of light crude oil which will produce 5.8 × 106 British Thermal Units (million BTU or mBTU) according to the US […]