
National Oil Companies
Canada Key Projects and Business Highlights The projects and acquisitions announced on first half 2013 by the international oil companies (IOCs) such as Apache, BG Group (BG) , Chevron, ExxonMobil, Idemitsu, Shell or TransCanada, and by national oil companies (NOCs) such as China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina) or Petronas confirm the strategic evolution of the energy policy […]
SNC Lavalin won FEED contract for phase-1 to Aqaba On December 2012, the Iraq Ministry of Oil (MoO) presented in London, UK, Road Show, its Strategic Crude Oil Export Pipeline Infrastructure Project across Jordan, Syria and Turkey. During this London Road Show, the Ministry of Oil also detailed the phase-1 of the Strategic Crude Oil […]
Technip completed FEED for Ras Laffan Refinery Expansion project Since Technip completed the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract the Ras Laffan Refinery Expansion project is moving into its final bidding phase for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with only four companies still in the competition such as selected by Qatar Petroleum (QP) and its partners, ExxonMobil, Total, Cosmo Oil […]
Mozambique Key Projects and Business Highlights In 2012 Mozambique has emerged as a new star in the oil and gas universe with series of major discoveries in the Rovuma Basin, offshore the west coast of Africa. Every month, companies like Anadarko, Eni, Total, Mitsui E&P were announcing successful test wells of natural gas. All the […]
Iraq Key Projects and Business Highligfhts In 2012, Iraq has been the theater of strategic step changes for most of the companies depending on their profile as international oil companies, national oil companies, small and mid-cap oil companies. The national oil companies, such as Gazprom, Lukoil, PetroChina, Petronas, were moving into the active development of […]
SABIC and Shell to invest in and beyond Saudi Arabia In November 2012, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and Shell have decided to work on expansion opportunities of their joint venture Saudi Petrochemical Company (Sadaf). These expansion ambitions are not limited to the sole Saudi Arabia but should also aim at increasing positions in overseas markets. […]
Find out how our energy can create a better world Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) was founded in 1953 and is today the largest corporation in Brazil operating in 27 countries outside of Brazil, highlighting United States and West Coast of Africa. Petrobras is listed on San Paulo ADR and on NYSE but mostly owned and managed by […]
$1.6 billion to build Taizhou Refinery and Aromatics China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), China’s third National Oil Company (NOC), has decided to build a new integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, in east China. The new refinery would process heavy crude oil pumped from China’s Bohai Bay, off north China, the […]