Offshore technology
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 […]
Petronas moves on second Floating LNG unit On September 2012, JGC Corporation (JGC) from Japan and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) from South Korea signed a contract with the Malaysian national oil company Petronas for the front end engineering and design (FEED) of a new floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit. Malaysia waters is rich of […]
Rosneft to buy TNK-BP from BP and AAR for $55 billion On Monday 22nd, 2012, Rosneft makes double win over the TNK-BP internal disputes between its key stakeholders BP and Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR) in closing deal with both parties to take over their respective 50% shares. On Monday morning BP and Rosneft signed Heads of Terms […]
Joined expertise to focus on subsea EPCI contracts Technip, the French engineering company, and Heerema Marine Contractors, the Netherlands-based offshore contracting and services company, have signed a global alliance to join their respective expertise on the ultra deep water business. Home-based in Paris, France, Technip is one of the largest engineering company in the world […]
An international oil and gas company Based in Vienna, OMV Aktiengesellschaft (OMV) is one of Austria’s largest listed industrial companies with 29,800 employees in 2011 Historically, OMV is an integrated upstream–midstream–downstream company with activities mostly concentrated in Europe. Upstream, OMV explore and produce oil and gas in Romania and Austria and holds working interests all […]
Chevron Rosebank to unlock one fifth of UK’s reserves Chevron and its partners Statoil from Norway, OMV from Austria and Dong Energy (Dong) from Denmark selected WorleyParson and its subsidiary Intecsea to perform the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the facilities to develop the offshore Rosebank project in UK. The Rosebank field is […]
BP and Shell explore successfully Nile Delta and Western Desert to secure oil and gas supply Then major international oil companies such as BP and Shell decided to extend their exploration and production programs in Egypt in order to secure a long term and sustainable supply in oil and gas to any downstream scheme. After […]
Saudi Aramco chases natural gas onshore and offshore Saudi Arabia consumes 3 million barrels per day of crude oil for domestic consumption that could be substituted by natural gas. In the same time, Saudi Arabia holds 282.6 trillion scf of natural gas.reserves, ranking in the fourth position in the world. When Saudi Aramco decided to […]
