Midstream
Majors work on alternatives to export North Slope gas In October 2012, the major companies operating in Alaska, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and TransCanada submitted to the Alaska administration their first report for an Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project. Estimated to cost $45 billion to $65 billion capital expenditure, Alaska LNG should be one of […]
BASF to accelerate upstream business with Wintershall BASF‘s oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall from Germany and Statoil from Norway signed an agreement to swap strategic assets in the North Sea and establish a cooperation framework on the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies. Home-based in Kassel, Germany, Wintershall is a BASF wholly-owned company operating upstream and midstream […]
Shaping The Future Established in 1894 in Germany for drilling and mining potassium salt, Wintershall started the oil production in 1930 and joined the chemical group BASF in Ludwigshafen as a wholly-owned subsidiary in 1969. Based in Kassel, Germany, Wintershall is the largest German crude oil and natural gas producer and operates the largest network of pipelines […]
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% […]
