Tags
General header

Midstream

Gazprom to study underground gas storage in China  Last May, China and Russia had terminated lengthy negotiations on their natural gas trading prices to drive the constructions of multiple gas pipelines between the two countries. China had made its best efforts to increase its offer from $0.235 per cm to $0.250 while Russia was ready to accept $0.300 per cm instead of $0.350. But the […]

admin
Reading: 3 min
Read more

Shell and Mitsubishi to gather gas from Basra oil fields The Iraq Government has given its nod to the natural gas exploration deal signed between Shell from the Netherlands and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi). The project, which requires capital expenditure of around $17.2 billion, was initially signed in 2008. The joint venture,  Basra Gas Company (BGC) is state-controlled […]

admin
Reading: 3 min
Read more

With Leviathan Noble turns Israel into gas exporter  In 2009, Israel’s exploration partner Noble Energy discovered the Tamar field in the Levantine Basin, some 50 miles west of Israel’s port of Haifa and with an estimated 8.3 tcf (trillion cubic feet) of highest-quality natural gas. Tamar was the world’s largest gas discovery in 2009. Then, […]

admin
Reading: 3 min
Read more

Saudi Arabia to switch on Power Generation from Gas With oil price running steadily around $100 per barrel, the use of crude oil to feed Power Generation appeared more and more as a luxurious solution. Saudi Aramco launched a vast exploration and production campaign to identify all potential gas fields to substitute oil. As a […]

admin
Reading: 3 min
Read more

Gas prices and high costs dictate to rethink Shtokman The foreseen capital expenditure for the Shtokman gas field development came up from first estimated $15 billion to $30-40 billion. This costs escalation is resulting from multiple factors including the combined target to produce 50/50 natural gas and LNG. This goal appeared to have a great impact on […]

admin
Reading: 3 min
Read more

Definition FSO is the acronym of Floating Storage and Offloading used to describe the offshore operation between the oil and gas processing and the export to the shore by pipeline or shuttle tankers. Comments Originally, all the offshore platforms used to sit on the seabed, but as exploration and production moved to deeper waters and more […]

admin
Reading: 3 min
Read more

Shaw to sell Energy & Chemicals Group (mostly Stone & Webster) to Technip  On May 21st, 2012, The Shaw Group Inc (Shaw) and Technip announced to have closed a deal to the US based Energy & Chemicals Division, mostly made of Stone & Webster, to the France headquartered engineering company Technip for approximately $300 million. Under […]

admin
Reading: 3 min
Read more

Stay up to date!

Susbcribe to our newsletter for weekly updates about energy projects

We promise we’ll never spam! Take a look at our Privacy Policy for more info.