Midstream

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 […]

We Refine Right The Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company, so called TAKREER, is the operational entity of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in charge of the refining business. Until 1999, the downstream activities were left as a branch within ADNOC, but with the development of this sector in Abu Dhabi and major projects […]

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 […]

ExxonMobil signed agreement with Impact on Tugela The super major ExxonMobil signed an agreement with the junior Impact oil and Gas Ltd (Impact) for the exploration of Tugela South Exploration Right offshore South Africa. According to the terms of the agreement, ExxonMobil is to acquire 75% of the interests in the Tugela South Exploration Right and […]

Sonatrach to increase CAPEX by 50% in 2013 In November 2012, Sonatrach, the Algeria national oil company announced to increase its capital expenditure from the actual $10 billion in 2012 to $15 billion in 2013. This first step is part of the new program of oil and gas projects in which Sonatrach is planning to invest […]

CNPC to take $2.2 billion stake in Encana Duvernay The China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina) speeds up acquisitions of interests in Canada with the $2.2 billion offered to the local Encana for stake in the Duvernay oil sand project. According to the deal reached between the parties, PetroChina will take, through its wholly-owned subsidiary […]