Midstream
Liard Basin tops best shale gas fields in North America The Houston, Texas-based, Apache Corporation (Apache) announced the shale gas Liard Basin in British Columbia (BC), Canada, to contain 48 trillion cf of marketable natural gas. In addition the tests performed by Apache through three wells have reported that the shale gas of the Liard Basin is among “the […]
Statoil, Petoro and Exxon to tie-back Svalin to Grane Svalin is made of two fields, Svalin M which was discovered in 2008 and Svalin C which was discovered in 1992. Svalin is located in Block 25/11 in the North Sea, between the Grane and Balder fields, about six kilometers south-west of the Grane platform at […]
Electrical and Instrumentation experts to meet in Abu Dhabi on November 12th &13th 2012 PCIC stands for the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee. PCIC Middle East is the regional representation of PCIC Europe to organize the premier Conference for the exchange of experience in electricity and instrumentation in the oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, covering all the aspects of the upstream and downstream activities. The PCIC Middle […]
Chevron to award FEED for Rosebank FPSO The Rosebank oil and gas field discovery is located on Blocks 213/26 and 213/27, in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, 130 km northwest of the Shetland Islands in 1,115 m of water depth on the Corona Ridge near the UK border. Rosebank is considered to be one of the biggest discoveries […]
China and India join forces in Exploration & Production Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) and Mr. Jiang Jiemin, Chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), on June 18, 2012 at New Delhi, India. This MoU signed between ONGC and […]
Sibur to provide Sinopec with patents and technologies China’s top refiner China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) has signed an agreement with Russian petrochemical Group Sibur to establish a joint venture in Shanghai, China, to produce synthetic rubber. The joint venture will use patents and technologies from Sibur to produce nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) and isoprene rubber […]
Foster Wheeler, Jacobs, KBR, Mustang and SNC Lavalin signed GES+ contracts with Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco’s General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) initiative requires that the majority of its engineering services requirements be conducted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in order to enhance the development of training and domestic employment opportunities. With the GES+ initiative, […]
Fujairah refinery, a strategic project for the UAE International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) is moving ahead with the crude oil refinery project to be located at Fujairah, UAE. The Fujairah refinery, should have a capacity of 10.0 million t/y or 200,000 b/d. IPIC estimated the capital expenditure at $ 3 billion. The Fujairah refinery project should be […]
