natural gas
Aramco Manifa Expansion to maintain KSA production The state-owned Saudi Aramco company is already considering the Manifa Expansion project as part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) strategy to maintain its full production capacity of crude oil in respect with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quotas. With a production capacity of […]
Saudi Aramco to develop tight gas northwest fields The national oil company (NOC) Saudi Aramco is on the verge to develop the tight gas fields identified in the northwest of the Kingdom to supply the gas-fired power plant required for the giant Maaden Phosphate City project currently under construction. Since the USA revolutionized the gas […]
ONGC to add platforms offshore Daman in Arabian Sea The Indian national oil company (NOC) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is planning to add platforms on its Tapsi Daman Block to boost the gas and condensate production from the Arabia Sea on the West coast of India. India is the fourth largest energy consumer […]
Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014 On the Western Canada, the Provinces of British Columbia (B.C.) and Alberta have decided to favor all the investments to develop the unconventional gas resources in addition to the well known bitumen. In the gas race to supply thirsty East Asia countries, Canada identified the opportunity to take the […]
Texas and Louisiana race for Chinese methanol project The Chinese companies Connell Group (Connell) and Sino Life Insurance Corporation (Sino Life) are currently evaluating potential sites in Shoal Point, Texas, and Donaldsonville, Louisiana, to build and operate a world-scale methanol plant in USA. Based in Jilin, in the northeast of China, Connell is a chemical group […]
Petrobras Jupiter FPSO to learn from Lula development Petrobras and its partner, Galp Energia (Galp) from Portugal, are expecting to benefit from the lessons learnt in developing the Lula giant offshore pre-salt field to design the floating, processing, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels to be moored at Jupiter field to operate in similar conditions in […]
Statoil preferred TLP concept for Snorre C on tie-back The Norwegian State-owned company Statoil and its partners, Petoro from Norway, ExxonMobil from USA, Idemitsu Petroleum (Idemitsu) from Japan, RWE from Germany, Core Energy from Norway preferred the tension leg platform (TLP) concept over a simple tie-back to develop Snorre C, the third phase of this […]
Noble and Woodside terminated Leviathan MOU In May 2014, the Texas-based independent company Noble Energy Inc. (Noble) and the Australian national oil company (NOC) Woodside terminated their memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding their potential cooperation in the development of the giant non-associated gas field Leviathan offshore Israel in the Mediterranean Sea. This non-binding MOU had been […]
