North Africa
Oman Oil and IPIC to award Duqm Refinery FEED soon The national Oman Oil Company (Oman Oil or OOC) and the Abu Dhabi sovereign founds International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) are reaching the final evaluation stage of the commercial and technical bids submitted by international engineering companies to carry out the front end engineering and […]
Gazprom first LNG shipment from Norway to Japan Gazprom prepared and implemented successfully the first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) through the freezing Northern Sea Route (NSR) around the North Pole from Norway to Japan. Leaving the Port of Hammersfet in Norway on November 9th, the Ob River LNG carrier reached the Port of Tobata […]
Shaping The Future Established in 1894 in Germany for drilling and mining potassium salt, Wintershall started the oil production in 1930 and joined the chemical group BASF in Ludwigshafen as a wholly-owned subsidiary in 1969. Based in Kassel, Germany, Wintershall is the largest German crude oil and natural gas producer and operates the largest network of pipelines […]
Third largest US oil and gas company by equity Home based in Los Angeles, California, USA, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) is listed in New York Stock Exchange since 1964 and is operating as an international oil company. With more than 40,000 employees, Oxy focuses its oil and gas operations in three core regions of the world: […]
PDO Saih Rawl, PDO Zauliyah and BP Khazzam and Makarem lead Oman natural gas development Last August, the national oil company (NOC) Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO) awarded the Saih Rawl Depletion Compression Phase 2 (SRDC2) project to Larsen & Toubro from India to provide with the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract. Earlier this month, […]
Cairn, San Leon, Genel increase footprint in Morocco On the same week, Cairn Energy (Cairn) announced to sign a Farm-in Agreement for offshore exploration and production while San Leon Energy (San Leon) extended its oil shale onshore acreage, both in Morocco. These moves reflects the potential of resources and the momentum taken by Morocco in […]
$600 million for new Bapetco exploration campaign Badr Petroleum Company (Bapetco) is a joint venture established in Egypt between Shell and the national oil company (NOC) Egypt General Petroleum Company (EGPC). Bapetco’s main activity is to explore and develop oil and gas fields. Through its upstream activities, Bapetco is involved in the Badr el Din, North […]
OMV and Wintershall to appraise Shuwaihat sour gas and condensate field The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), signed a Technical Evaluation Agreement (TEA) with OMV Abu Dhabi E&P GmbH (OMV) and Wintershall Middle East GmbH – Abu Dhabi (Wintershall) to appraise the sulfur rich sour gas (H2S and CO2) and condensate field in Shuwaihat. This Agreement is […]
