infrastructures
Sibur kicks off Russian largest petrochemical complex If Russia is among the biggest producer and exporter of oil and gas, Russia is also a net importer of petrochemical products. In the same way as Russia has multiplied strategic alliances with western companies, such as ExxonMobil, Statoil, ENI, Total to boost its upstream sector, Russia is also […]
Gazprom brings Shtokman back to square one Shtokman field was discovered in 1988, and is located 550 kilometers offshore northern Russian coast by 340 meters water depth. The recoverable reserves are estimated to 3.9 trillion cubic meters of natural gas. The project development is planned in three phases, each one to produce 23.7 billion cubic […]
Definition Tie-back in the offshore oil and gas upstream activities refer to the connection of additional risers to the floating vessel or platform. Comments Originally the offshore oil and gas industry used to focus on large fields that could be explored and produced in drilling strait below the floating vessel or the platform. But the high […]
China and India join forces in Exploration & Production Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) and Mr. Jiang Jiemin, Chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), on June 18, 2012 at New Delhi, India. This MoU signed between ONGC and […]
Definition GES+ is the acronym of General Engineering Services Plus. General Engineering Services Plus is an initiative led by Saudi Aramco to increase the local content of the engineering activities in Saudi Arabia Comments Saudi Aramco’s General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) initiative requires that the majority of its engineering services requirements be conducted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in order […]
Definition SPAR is the acronym for Single Point Anchor Reservoir (SPAR). This descriptive definition refers to a floating system with infield flow lines and associated subsea infrastructure to connect the subsea production and injection wells. Comments From design perspective a SPAR is a cylindrical, partially submerged offshore drilling and production platform that is particularly well-adapted […]
Mad Dog: BP’s second giant field in Gulf of Mexico In September 2011, BP announced the drilling of a successful appraisal well in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the US Gulf of Mexico. The well results confirm a significant resource extension for the Mad Dog Field complex, which includes […]
BP to invest $15 billion to develop Oman tight gas BP’s Khazzan tight gas project in Block 61 is one of the company’s top five upstream projects globally. BP’s Khazzan project is also the first and largest of its kind in the Middle East. In January 2007 BP signed a major exploration and production sharing agreement with […]
