
ogp projects
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, […]
Technip and NPCC win Upper Zakum 750 EPC1 After completing the front end engineering and design (FEED) work, Technip and its local partner National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) have been awarded the first EPC package called EPC1 of the Upper Zakum development project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Upper Zakum project is developed by Abu Dhabi’s Zakum Development Company (ZADCO), a joint […]
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 […]
Definition Petro Arctic is a Norwegian association to promote the potential suppliers willing to participate to the development and operations of the offshore oil and gas projects in North Norway and the Barents Sea. Comments Petro Arctic was created in 1997 to involve local companies in the Snøhvit LNG project. Since then the mission of Petro […]
OMV to replace ExxonMobil in Aasta Hansteen partnership with Statoil and ConocoPhillips Aasta Hansteen field was previously named Luva and is one of the largest field in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) with a development planned to cost some $5.6 billion (NOK 34 billion) of capital expenditure. Aasta Hansteen is the start of deepwater development in the Norwegian Sea and […]
Sojitz, SDK and Toray multiply strategic initiatives While the biggest oil and gas producing countries in Middle-East, Russia and North America are expanding their petrochemical industry downstream towards high added value hydrocarbon products, Japan seems to investigate another route through chemical local companies building up Market Leadership on bio-plastics. The global market for bio-plastics was […]
BPCL to invest $2.6 billion in Kochi Integrated Refinery Petrochemical project Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) is the second-largest public sector refinery in India. The Kochi refinery is located at Ambalmugal near the city of Kochi in Kerala. The Kochi refinery capacity is actually of 9.5 million t/y or 190,000 b/d. The actual portfolio of […]