
LNG
BG Group opts for competitive FEED on QCLNG-2 The London-listed BG Group plc (BG) has decided to organize competitive bids on the front end engineering and design (FEED) for the expansion of its giant Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) project in the Southeast of Australia. In its first phase, the QCLNG project was the first one […]
Petronas calls for competitive FEED on Sepat project Since 2010, the national oil company (NOC), Petrolian Nasional Bhd (Petronas), has decided to put efforts to develop marginal fields offshore Malaysia. Around the Malaysian peninsula, Petronas identified 106 marginal oil fields representing more than 580 million barrels of crude oil that it cannot ignore any longer. These […]
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 […]
Petronas calls for tender RAPID Package 8 EPCC The Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas has sent the invitation to bid (ITB) to the pre-qualified engineering companies for the Package 8 of the Refinery And Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project despite the one year delay announced earlier. With an estimated $20 billion capital expenditure, the […]
UAE to shunt Hormuz Strait with Fujairah Terminal Mubadala Petroleum and the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), both from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, are preparing the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase for their Emirates LNG project in Fujairah. Established in 2002 by the State of Abu Dhabi, the Mubadala Development Company […]
Horizon and Osaka Gas to ally in Papua New Guinea The Australian Horizon Oil Ltd (Horizon) and the large utility company Osaka Gas from Japan signed a strategic alliance to develop acreage gas fields in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for the production of condensate and liquefied natural gas (LNG). In November 2012, Horizon had announced to […]
British Columbia LNG project in design competition The Malaysia national oil company Petronas and its partner Japan Petroleum Exploration Corporation Ltd (Japex) are opening a design competition for the greenfield Pacific Northwest LNG project in British Columbia, Canada. This decision came out after the completion of the acquisition of the Canadian company Progress Energy Resources […]
Rosneft and ExxonMobil to export LNG from Russia During a visit in April on the Sakhalin-1 facilities, Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Victor Sechin announced his intention to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia in joint venture with his partner ExxonMobil in Sakhalin-1 on the far east of Russia. Mr Sechin indicated that this Russia […]