natural gas
Methanex to invest $550 million to benefit from low shale gas prices Methanex produces about 3.8 million t/y of Methanol and is the world’s largest supplier of Methanol to major international markets with production units in Canada, Chile, Egypt, New Zealand and Trinidad. Methanol is produces mainly out of natural gas, therefore the access to reliable and […]
Cheniere secured first phase Sabine Pass LNG funding In February, the private equity firm Blackstone Group LP (Blackstone) provided Cheniere Energy Partners (Cheniere) with $2 billion to finance Sabine Pass LNG Export Terminal conversion project. Since then Cheniere had appointed eight financial institutions to raise up to $4 billion in debt to complete the financing. As […]
Definition Pipelay Vessel or Pipe Laying Vessel refers to the vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry to install subsea all the connecting infrastructures such as pipelines, umbilicals or electrical cables Comments These subsea infrastructures may be installed to connect floating units on the surface to the seabed, or from shore to floating […]
Technip and WorleyParsons completed the FEED Chevron had awarded the front end engineering and design (FEED) for the development of Gengalo – Gehem project to: – Technip Jakarta office in Indonesia and Houston office in Texas, USA, for the two large Floating Production Units (FPU) package – Worley Parsons Indonesia for the Subsea and Flowline system package. From these FEED performed by Technip and WorleyParsons, the packages are estimated […]
Qatar Petroleum holds 10% of $3 billion Arzew project Since Total and Sonatrach had announced the giant Arzew petrochemical complex, the project had to be put on hold by the lack of ethane as feedstock to supply the cracker. This ethane should come from the Hassi R’meil natural gas fields, but transportation along the 500km to […]
New players to bid against BP, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total With the onshore concessions expiring in 2014 and the offshore ones coming up in 2018, Abu Dhabi, in the UAE, is to rewrite the terms of its producing fields and offer up fresh prospects. The first oil concessions covering all the Abu Dhabi territory were awarded […]
Definition Umbilical refers in the oil and gas industry to the connections used offshore between the subsea equipment and platforms or floating production units and enabling the control from the surface. The umbilicals are made of steel or thermoplastic to be flexible and in the same time to resist to operating conditions. Comments Umbilicals provide control, power, […]
CNOOC and Sinopec target Nexen and Talisman assets July 23rd 2012, the Chinese CNOOC Ltd (CNOOC) announced to have signed an Arrangement Agreement with Nexen for the acquisition of the Nexen shares listed in Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. The aggregate value of the proposed acquisition is approximately $15.1 billion on the top of which […]
