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PDO Saih Rawl, PDO Zauliyah and BP Khazzam and Makarem lead Oman natural gas development Last  August, the national oil company (NOC) Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO) awarded the Saih Rawl Depletion Compression Phase 2 (SRDC2) project to Larsen & Toubro from India to provide with the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract. Earlier this month, […]

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BP to sell Carson refinery to Tesoro;  Sunray and Hemphill gas processing facilities to Eagle Rock BP continues to implement its $38 billion divestment plan of non strategic assets by the end of 2013 in signing two spin off agreements with Tesoro Corporation (Tesoro) and Eagle Rock Energy (Eagle Rock) partners. These agreements cover:  – Downstream assets with […]

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$1.6 billion to build Taizhou Refinery and Aromatics China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC),  China’s third National Oil Company (NOC), has decided to build a new integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, in east China. The new refinery would process heavy crude oil pumped from China’s Bohai Bay, off north China, the […]

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Definition Oil sands are bitumen deposits  which naturally occurred from the mixture of thick, heavy oil, water and sand. Since the heavy oil is classified as bitumen, Oil sands are scientifically named as Bituminous sands. Oil sands may also be called Tar sands where Tar refers to the residue produced from organic material distillation such as bitumen. […]

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ExxonMobil to boost oil sand production in Canada Through Imperial Oil Ltd (Imperial Oil), ExxonMobil is planning to double upstream production capacity in Canada in the period 2010 – 2020 supported by $30 to $40 billion capital expenditure. Imperial Oil is an ExxonMobil company based in Calgary and operating  oil and gas production, refining and petrochemical […]

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Saudi Aramco and Total to go for Aromatics in phase 2 While the joint venture Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (Satorp) is completing the construction of the refinery as the first phase of the project to come on stream in 2013, Total and Saudi Aramco are already working on the second phase about petrochemicals in […]

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Definition SAGD is the acronym of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage. The Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage is a process to produce oil from tar-sands. Comments The SAGD process has been developed in Ontario, then in Alberta by Imperial Oil (ExxonMobil) in the years 1970s. Canada holds the most important reserves of extra heavy crude oil, also called […]

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