LNG
Cheniere in route for Sabine Pass Stage-3 in Louisiana The Houston-based independent company Cheniere Energy Partners LLC (Cheniere) took a leap to develop its liquefied natural gas (LNG) Sabine Pass Stage-3 project in receiving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval for the construction of the Sabine Pass LNG Trains 5 and 6 at its […]
BASF selected US Texas Freeport for greenfield MTO The German chemical giant BASF SE (BASF) has selected its Freeport existing site on the Texas US Gulf Coast to build a greenfield Methane-To-Olefins (MTO) complex based on the critical methane-to-propylene (MTP) conversion. While the Bundestag, the German Parliament, continues to debate about the opportunity to allow or […]
Noble and Delek ready to declare Aphrodite viable The US-based company Noble Energy (Noble) and its Israeli partner Delek Group (Delek) are nearing the point to declare the Aphrodite gas field in the Block 12 offshore Cyprus Island in the southeast of the Mediterranean Sea commercially viable. In August 2007, Noble acquired the Block 12 during […]
Gazprom proposes Turkish hub to supply South Europe The Russian natural gas champion Gazprom intends to substitute the cancelled South Stream project by the newly introduced Turkey Stream Pipeline project to supply the Mediterranean countries. On December 2014, President Poutine decided to stop the far advanced South Stream project pipeline as a result of Ukraine tension […]
India Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014 The Indian oil and gas sector is dominated at 70% by national oil companies (NOCs), the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and the Oil India Limited (OIL or Oil India) and completed by an active private sector well represented by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd […]
Australia Key Projects and Business Highlights Since 2013, Australia suffered from hard messages when series of oil and gas companies no less than Apache, BG Group (BG), BHP Billiton (BHP), Chevron, ExxonMobil, Inpex, PetroChina (CNPC), Shell or Total sent warning announcements regarding the spiraling costs of their projects with the immediate consequence to freeze all […]
Cronus to produce ammonia – urea in Tuscola – Illinois The Chicago-registered company Cronus Chemicals LLC (Cronus) has selected Tuscola in the State of Illinois to build a greenfield nitrogen fertilizer plant to produce ammonia and urea in USA. USA is the third largest consuming country of fertilizer in the world after China and India as […]
Ineos to feed Grangemouth with Scotland shale gas Introducing itself as “THE WORD FOR CHEMICALS”, the Swiss-based company Ineos is maneuvering a strategic breakthrough in planning $1 billion capital expenditure in UK shale gas to feed its petrochemical complex in Grangemouth, Scotland. Acquired from BP willing to focus on upstream activities, the Ineos Grangemouth refining and petrochemical complex occupies […]
