
Malaysia
APC and SK Gas selected CB&I licence for Ulsan PDH The downstream industrial group Advanced Petrochemical Company (APC) from Saudi Arabia and the midstream company SK Gas Corporation Ltd (SK Gas) from South-Korea signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to build a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Ulsan on the southwest coast of South Korea. Headquartered […]
Nippon to run fast track for Layang FPSO conversion The Japanese-owned joint venture JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Ltd (JX Nippon) and its local partner Petronas Carigali (Petronas) are now running on the fast track to develop the Layang gas field, offshore Sarawak in Malaysia, with a converted floating storage production and offloading (FPSO) […]
EnQuest to award Kraken FPSO to Bumi Armada The Scottish joint venture made of Aberdeen-based EnQuest and First Oil plc ( First Oil) companies together with the Edinburgh-registered Cairn Energy plc (Cairn) have issued a letter of interim agreement (LOIA) to the Malaysian engineering company Bumi Armada (Bumi) for the design and construction of the […]
CNPC and Total to double production with Halfaya-3 The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) and its partners, Total from France, Petronas from Malaysia and the local South Oil Company (SOC) confirm to target the plateau production of the Halfaya oil field in the south of Iraq by 2017 as originally defined. Halfaya oil […]
Shell calls for bid St Joseph CEOR Pilot Vessel project The international oil company (IOC) Royal Dutch Shell is calling for bid a three year engineering contract to design and develop a pilot vessel to provide chemical enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) at the St Joseph oil field offshore the State of Sabah in Malaysia. This […]
Kenarong – Pertang competitive FEED to be an option Murphy Oil Corporation (Murphy Oil) and the Malaysian oil company Petronas are considering the option to organize a competitive front end engineering and design (FEED) to develop the Kenarong and Pertang natural gas fields of the Block PM311 in the shallow water of the east coast […]
Malaysia Key Projects and Business highlights On the first half 2013, Malaysia confirmed the previous trends to become a key players of the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical sector in Asia-Pacific region with Petrolian Nasional Bhd (Petronas) multiplying upstream and downstream initiatives with major international oil companies such as: Basf, ConocoPhillips, Murphy Oil Corporation (Murphy), Shell or Total. With […]
Iraq Key Projects and Business Highlights The first half 2013 saw positive changes in Iraq with all the companies increasing the production of crude oil and natural gas, and with most of the international oil companies (IOCs) such as BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Petronas, Shell, Total proceeding to successful diplomatic moves either in signing farm-in agreements […]