Iraq
Resources and Energy With Headoffice in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, WorleyParsons was established in 2004 from the acquisition of the Californian engineering company Parsons E&C by the Australian Worley. Parsons E&C had a long history since 1944 in the downstream sector, refining, petrochemicals and power. Worley was established under the actual form in 1987 from […]
WorleyParsons to provide project management services November 2012, OAO Lukoil (Lukoil) selected the Australian engineering company WorleyParsons to provide project management services (PMS) on the next three years for the West Qurna-2 oil field development project in southern Iraq. Discovered in 1973, the West Qurna-2 oilfield is the second largest undeveloped field in the world. […]
BP and CNPC ramped up oil production 10% per year In June 2009, the international oil company BP and the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina) were awarded the technical services contract (TSC) for the giant Rumaila oil field in the south of Iraq, closed to the Kuwait border. BP discovered the Rumaila oil field […]
World Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction & Development to provide funding to reduce flared gas The World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are calling the oil companies and the producing countries to cut the gas flaring by 30% in the next five years. According to 2011 estimations, about 140 […]
To be a world-leading Energy and Chemical Company China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) was established in July 1998 on the basis of the former China Petrochemical Corporation. Sinopec Group is a state wholly owned company with Headquartered in Beijing, China and a registered capital of RMB 182 billion ($30 billion). As a state-owned company, Sinopec Group […]
Mitsui, Toyo and Unico study $2 billion fertilizer project A Japanese consortium made of Mitsui, Toyo Engineering Corporation (Toyo) and the consulting company Unico International Corporation (Unico) is working on a greenfield $2 billion fertilizer plant in the South of Iraq. This project comes while the: – Houston-based engineering company KBR is revamping and expanding […]
Genel Energy to benefit from dispute resolution In November 2011, the Turkish company Genel Energy International Ltd merged with Vallares PLC to become the largest oil and gas company operating in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Renamed Genel Energy, the new company enlisted the London Stock Exchange (GENL). For both companies the purpose of this […]
Petronas and Japex move on Iraq Gharraf phase 1 The Malaysian national oil company, Petronas, Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) and North Oil Company from Iraq, are moving one the first phase of the development of the Gharraf, or Garraf, oil and gas field in southern Iraq. Gharraf is the fifth largest oil field in Iraq with estimated 1 […]
