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Qatar Petroleum holds 10% of $3 billion Arzew project Since Total and Sonatrach had announced the giant Arzew petrochemical complex, the project had to be put on hold by the lack of ethane as feedstock to supply the cracker. This ethane should come from the Hassi R’meil natural gas fields, but transportation along the 500km to […]
New players to bid against BP, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total With the onshore concessions expiring in 2014 and the offshore ones coming up in 2018, Abu Dhabi, in the UAE, is to rewrite the terms of its producing fields and offer up fresh prospects. The first oil concessions covering all the Abu Dhabi territory were awarded […]
CNOOC and Sinopec target Nexen and Talisman assets July 23rd 2012, the Chinese CNOOC Ltd (CNOOC) announced to have signed an Arrangement Agreement with Nexen for the acquisition of the Nexen shares listed in Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. The aggregate value of the proposed acquisition is approximately $15.1 billion on the top of which […]
Definition Petro Arctic is a Norwegian association to promote the potential suppliers willing to participate to the development and operations of the offshore oil and gas projects in North Norway and the Barents Sea. Comments Petro Arctic was created in 1997 to involve local companies in the Snøhvit LNG project. Since then the mission of Petro […]
OMV to replace ExxonMobil in Aasta Hansteen partnership with Statoil and ConocoPhillips Aasta Hansteen field was previously named Luva and is one of the largest field in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) with a development planned to cost some $5.6 billion (NOK 34 billion) of capital expenditure. Aasta Hansteen is the start of deepwater development in the Norwegian Sea and […]
BPCL to invest $2.6 billion in Kochi Integrated Refinery Petrochemical project Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) is the second-largest public sector refinery in India. The Kochi refinery is located at Ambalmugal near the city of Kochi in Kerala. The Kochi refinery capacity is actually of 9.5 million t/y or 190,000 b/d. The actual portfolio of […]
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 […]
Dow and Saudi Aramco $20 billion Sadara takes shape Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara) is a joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). Once complete, Sadara petrochemical complex will be one of the world’s largest integrated chemical complex and the largest ever built in a single phase. The facility […]
