heavy crude oil
EnQuest to award Kraken FPSO to Bumi Armada The Scottish joint venture made of Aberdeen-based EnQuest and First Oil plc ( First Oil) companies together with the Edinburgh-registered Cairn Energy plc (Cairn) have issued a letter of interim agreement (LOIA) to the Malaysian engineering company Bumi Armada (Bumi) for the design and construction of the […]
Suncor to operate Athabasca Fort Hills mining project Suncor Energy (Suncor) from Canada and its partners, Total from France and Teck Resources Ltd (Teck) from Canada, made the final investment decision (FID) to develop Fort Hills oil sands mine project in Athabasca at the northeast of Alberta, Canada. This decision comes in a context where […]
DNO and Genel ready for FID on Block Dohuk project The Norwegian independent company DNO and its partners, a Turkish-based company Genel Energy (Genel) and the local Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) are preparing the final investment decision (FID) to develop on fast track the Block Dohuk in the north of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. […]
PDVSA to increase heavy crude oil refining capacity The consortium made of Hyundai Engineering & Construction Corporation Ltd (Hyundai) from South Korea and Wison Engineering Corporation Ltd (Wison) from China selected Technip from France to supply two hydrogen reformers for the Venezuela national oil company (NOC) Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) Puerto La Cruz Refinery project. […]
CNPC to join Petroecuador in Ecuador Refinery project The giant China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina) is currently in discussion with the national oil companies (NOCs) Petroecuador and Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) to take a stake in the Ecuador Refineria del Pacifico project. With a production of 500,000 barrels per day (b/d), Ecuador […]
Oman to invest $1 billion in new Chemical EOR Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) is working on the expansion of its Marmul Polymer project with flooding enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique to maintain and increase the current production of heavy crude oil. Oman is one of the first country in the Middle East to explore and […]
KOC to invest $7 billion in Lower Fars heavy crude oil The national upstream Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is considering to move into the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)stage for the Lower Fars phase-1 project since WorleyParsons completed the front end engineering and design (FEED) work in 2012. This phase-1 is part of the Lower Fars heavy […]
PDVSA and Russians to pump $25 billion in Orinoco In September 2012, the national oil company Petroleos De Venezuela SA (PDVSA) and a Russian National Petroleum Consortium LLP (NPC) made of Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil, TNK-BP and Surgutneftegas, inaugurated PetroMiranda first oil in the Venezuela Orinoco. PetroMiranda is a joint venture created between PDVSA and Russian […]
