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Norway Key Projects and Business Highlights In 2012, Norway started to collect the first benefits of its exploration in the untapped oil and gas fields of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). With the Geitungen discovery, the Johan Sverdrup is taking a new dimension motivating Statoil and its partners Maersk, Petoro, Det Norske Oljeselskap (DNO) and Lundin […]
Mozambique Key Projects and Business Highlights In 2012 Mozambique has emerged as a new star in the oil and gas universe with series of major discoveries in the Rovuma Basin, offshore the west coast of Africa. Every month, companies like Anadarko, Eni, Total, Mitsui E&P were announcing successful test wells of natural gas. All the […]
Iraq Key Projects and Business Highligfhts In 2012, Iraq has been the theater of strategic step changes for most of the companies depending on their profile as international oil companies, national oil companies, small and mid-cap oil companies. The national oil companies, such as Gazprom, Lukoil, PetroChina, Petronas, were moving into the active development of […]
Brazil Key Project and Business Highlights The year 2012 has seen Brazil congested by the upstream projects causing delays. But more importantly, in 2012, Brazil started to implement its integrated business model in which upstream, midstream and downstream sectors are developed in parallel in order to optimize the hydrocarbon value chain. On the upstream the bottleneck […]
Australia Key Project and Business Highlights In 2012, Australia popped up as center of universe for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry with the number of LNG projects pilling up, the costs of these projects spiraling up by 80%, the new discoveries leading to strategic changes. With a second wave of LNG projects representing $156 billion capital […]
2B1st Christmas blog: One day – One Country For nearly one year we propose you every day information about the projects, the companies and news related to the oil and gas and petrochemical industry somewhere in the world. We select the topics sometimes because of their immediate interest for the daily business, sometimes as they illustrate long term […]
KOC to invest $7 billion in Lower Fars heavy crude oil The national upstream Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is considering to move into the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)stage for the Lower Fars phase-1 project since WorleyParsons completed the front end engineering and design (FEED) work in 2012. This phase-1 is part of the Lower Fars heavy […]