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Egypt Key Projects and Business Highlights The first half 2013 appears as a contrasted period for the oil & gas and petrochemical sector in Egypt with major companies such as Apache, BG Group (BG), BP, Dana Petroleum (Dana), Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell or Vega Petroleum Ltd (Vega) confirming their interest for this country and performing successful discoveries […]
Australia Key Projects and Business Highlights The first half of year has rang in Australia as a fresh wake up call on early morning when the major companies having interests in this country such as Apache, BG, BHP Billiton, Chevron, ExxonMobil, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina), Inpex, Shell, Total and even Woodside started to blow […]
Stampede TLP to unitize Pony and Knotty discoveries Hess Corporation (Hess) and its partners, BHP Billiton (BHP) from Australia, Chevron from USA, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) from China through its Canadian acquisition Nexens, and Statoil from Norway, have selected the Japanese engineering company Modec to provide the Stampede project with a tension leg […]
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. […]
Petronas FLNG-2 to require MEG additional module The El Dorado, Arkansas-based, Murphy Oil Corporation (Murphy) and the Malaysian national oil company Petronas are revising upward the design of their floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel for the development of the Block H, offshore Sabah in Malaysia. Since 2007, Murphy accumulates natural gas discoveries in the Block […]
Sempra at final stage for Cameron LNG FERC approval The California-based company Sempra Energy (Sempra) and its partners, GDF-Suez from France, Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi) and Mitsui & Co, Ltd (Mitsui) from Japan , are reaching the final stage of the complex process approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its Cameron LNG project […]
Exxon and Imperial apply for West Coast LNG plant The super major company, ExxonMobil Corp (ExxonMobil) and its Canadian partner Imperial Oil (Imperial) submitted an application to the National Energy Board (NEB) to export up to 30 million t/y of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the British Columbia West Coast to Asia. With this initiative, […]
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 […]
