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North Reggane first production still targeted in 2016 Despite the In Amenas attack, the Spanish Repsol and its partners, the national oil company (NOC) Sonatrach, RWE Dea from Germany, and Edison from Italy, are moving ahead in the development of the North Reggane gas fields according to the original plans to deliver the first production […]
ORPIC Liwa Platics Project to reach FEED stage The Oman Refinery and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) confirmed to have called for tender the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for its $3.6 billion petrochemical complex to produce plastics in Al-Liwa, close to Sohar in the north of Oman. To be integrated to the Sohar […]
China Key Projects and Business Highlights While the Chinese national oil companies (NOCs) China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina), Sinopec, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) explore the world to find new oil and gas resources, the foreign companies such as Air Liquide, Basf, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Huntsman, Lanxess, Shell, Total, invest in China in all kinds of […]
ILF won South-Sudan export pipeline feasibility study The German-based ILF Consulting Engineers (ILF) has been awarded by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining a contract to perform the feasibility study on export pipeline projects out of the Republic of South Sudan. By this contract ILF is expected to analyze and compare the alternative routes to export […]
Shah Deniz-2 partners selected TAP over Nabucco The Shah Deniz-2 partners, BP from UK, Total from France and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) have preferred the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project over Nabucco to export their natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe. At the scale of these giant projects, TAP offers the shortest and simplest […]
Bechtel wins Ras Laffan Petrochemicals PMC contract The national oil company (NOC) Qatar Petroleum (QP) and the joint venture Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) selected the US-based engineering company Bechtel to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for the Ras Laffan Petrochemicals Project in Qatar. In this partnership with QP, QAPCO is itself a 80/20 joint venture between […]
Rosneft and ExxonMobil to export LNG from Russia During a visit in April on the Sakhalin-1 facilities, Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Victor Sechin announced his intention to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia in joint venture with his partner ExxonMobil in Sakhalin-1 on the far east of Russia. Mr Sechin indicated that this Russia […]
Freeport LNG Expansion to get approval on H2 2013 After Cheniere Sabine Pass LNG in Louisiana, the Freeport LNG Expansion project in Texas could be the second export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) project to be approved by the US administration. This Freeport LNG Expansion project stands on the second position in the application list at the […]
