Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Eni, Total, Kogas and Novatek win exploration blocks On October 30th, Cyprus announced to award four permits out of the second licensing round initiated by the Cyprus Government in February 2012. For this second licensing round, Cyprus offered 12 blocks for auction to oil and gas companies to bid until end of May. From this […]
Eni discoveries trigger debate on upstream localization In September 2012, the Italian national oil company Eni and its partners, Vitol from The Netherlands and the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC), made the first oil discovery in the Offshore Cape Three Point (OCPT) block in the Tano Basin about 50 kilometers offshore Ghana. The exploration and […]
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 […]
To be “Leading Oil and Gas Multinational of Choice” Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) was established in 1974 as the national oil company (NOC) of Malaysia. As a Malaysian Government wholly-owned company, Petronas has fully integrated oil and gas operations in a broad spectrum of the oil and gas upstream–midstream–downstream value-chain. Upstream, Petronas’s activities include the exploration, development and […]
Reliance and BP in upstream and midstream Alliance On August 7th, 2012, BP and Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) received from the India Oil Ministry the conditional approval for the production compensation of the declining offshore KG-D6 gas field. This decision was accelerated after three years of discussions in front of the depletion speed the matured […]
Definition FLNG is the acronym of Floating Liquefied Natural Gas and refers to floating production unit of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Floating Liquefied Natural Gas is not the chemical derivative of any form of natural gas, this wording was invented to describe the manufacturing process to produce LNG. Comments At the wellhead, the natural gas is in fact a […]
Qatar Petroleum in JV with Exxon to export US LNG Qatar Petroleum (QP) and ExxonMobil announced to use their joint venture called Golden Pass Products to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from USA. Created with 70% Qatar Petroleum working interests, the Golden Pass LNG project was constructed as a LNG import terminal. With this LNG import terminal, Qatar was securing […]
CB&I to broaden energy portfolio from LNG to Nuclear July 30th, 2012, CB&I and The Shaw Group (Shaw) announced to have closed a deal by which CB&I will acquire The Shaw Group. Shaw is a 25 years old engineering and services company well established as global provider of: Engineering and construction – Technology – Fabrication […]
