
Japan
Shell to invest $20 billion in LNG and GTL for 2012 – 15 During Investors day in London, the major Royal Dutch Shell plc ( Shell) presented last week, its vision on the gas future global market and its strategy to sustain a profitable growth and market leadership in this sector. Compared with the other major […]
Petronas to move on Burma Yetagun North expansion The Yetagu gas field is located in southern Andaman Sea about 100 kilometers west offshore Myanmar coast line. Originally explored and developed by Texaco, Premier Oil and Nippon Oil Exploration (JX NOEX) , the American withdrew in the years 2000s because of the US sanctions against Myanmar. The Malaysian […]
Initiate, Create and, Deliver Established in 1947 with its headquarter in Tokyo, Japan, Mitsui & Co. Ltd (Mitsui) is a diversified industrial company with a global presence in 67 countries and listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange. With more than 44,000 employees, Mitsui manage a large portfolio of products and services covering: – Iron and Steel […]
Majors work on alternatives to export North Slope gas In October 2012, the major companies operating in Alaska, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and TransCanada submitted to the Alaska administration their first report for an Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project. Estimated to cost $45 billion to $65 billion capital expenditure, Alaska LNG should be one of […]
Creative hybrid chemistry for a better tomorrow Registered in Tokyo and listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japan, Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited (Sumitomo Chemical) was established in 1913 to solve environmental issues. The smelting operations in the copper industry was emitting quantity of sulfur dioxide. Sumitomo Chemical was created to transform and monetise this sulfur dioxide […]
Petronas moves on second Floating LNG unit On September 2012, JGC Corporation (JGC) from Japan and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) from South Korea signed a contract with the Malaysian national oil company Petronas for the front end engineering and design (FEED) of a new floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit. Malaysia waters is rich of […]
After Petronas Rapid joint venture Versalis go to China On April 2012, the Italian national oil company Eni decided to rename its chemical branch Polimeri Europa into Versalis. Beyond the branding operation, Eni intends to go global with its Europe centric chemical business to benefit from the high growth in emerging countries. In 2011, Polimeri […]
Total and JX NOEX acquire stake in Myanmar M-11 PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP), the national oil company in Thailand, Total from France and JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (JX NOEX) from Japan, decided to join hands into a partnership to further explore and develop the offshore Myanmar oil and gas fields in the […]