
Midstream
Rosneft to buy TNK-BP from BP and AAR for $55 billion On Monday 22nd, 2012, Rosneft makes double win over the TNK-BP internal disputes between its key stakeholders BP and Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR) in closing deal with both parties to take over their respective 50% shares. On Monday morning BP and Rosneft signed Heads of Terms […]
Non-end drive to USA paves Enbridge way to Asia With the cancellation of the $16.2 billion Mackenzie Valley pipeline project, Canada integrates the new situation created in the USA with the exponential development of the shale gas these last years. Proposed in the 1970s and finally approved by the Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB), the […]
Joined expertise to focus on subsea EPCI contracts Technip, the French engineering company, and Heerema Marine Contractors, the Netherlands-based offshore contracting and services company, have signed a global alliance to join their respective expertise on the ultra deep water business. Home-based in Paris, France, Technip is one of the largest engineering company in the world […]
Saudi Aramco chases natural gas onshore and offshore Saudi Arabia consumes 3 million barrels per day of crude oil for domestic consumption that could be substituted by natural gas. In the same time, Saudi Arabia holds 282.6 trillion scf of natural gas.reserves, ranking in the fourth position in the world. When Saudi Aramco decided to […]
Energize – Harmonize – Realize The national oil company PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina) was established on November 1995, by the Chinese Government from the major restructuring of the oil and gas sector in China and of its national company at that time, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). In this operation the Chinese Government keeps holding 100% […]
CNPC to connect Halfaya field to Al-Fao export terminal The joint venture between the national oil companies China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), also called PetroChina, together with its partners China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and the local Missan Oil Company (MOC) are preparing the call for tender of the export pipeline to connect the […]
The leading Russian Petroleum Company The actual OJSC Rosneft Oil Company (Rosneft) was established in 1993 in Moscow, Russia, as a wholly state owned company under the name of Rosneftegas based on the transfer of assets from the OJSC Rosneft Oil Company (Rosneft). Then in 1995, Rosneftegas was transformed into open joint stock company (OJSC) […]
PDVSA and Russians to pump $25 billion in Orinoco In September 2012, the national oil company Petroleos De Venezuela SA (PDVSA) and a Russian National Petroleum Consortium LLP (NPC) made of Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil, TNK-BP and Surgutneftegas, inaugurated PetroMiranda first oil in the Venezuela Orinoco. PetroMiranda is a joint venture created between PDVSA and Russian […]