
oil and gas
Julia phase-1 tied-back to Chevron Jack & St Malo The super major ExxonMobil from USA and Statoil from Norway, made the final investment decision (FID) in April 2013 to start the development of the Julia oil and gas field in the US part of the Gulf of Mexico. Drilled in 2007, 285 kilometers southwest of […]
Oman selects Sohar for a $3.6 billion Plastics Project The Oman Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) took the opportunity of the Polyolefins Plastics Arabia Conference organized in Muscat in May 2013 to unveil the details of a greenfield world-scale petrochemical complex to be located in Sohar. As most of the Gulf countries, the Sultanate […]
Cobalt to join Majors in Angola pre-salt Kwansa Basin With the Cameia discovery, the junior Cobalt International Energy Company Inc. (Cobalt) is joining the major companies BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Galp Energia, Maersk, Petrobras, PetroChina, Statoil and Total in the development of the pre-salt oil and gas reserves lying in the Angola deep offshore Kwanza […]
Pemex to release Ayatsil call for tender in September The Mexican national oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), selected the concept of the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to develop its Ayatsil-Tekel discovery in the shallow water of the Campeche Basin in the Gulf of Mexico. Located 130 kilometers northwest Cuidad del Carmen, Ayatsil […]
Fujian Shenyuan selects Air Liquide for coal gasification End of May 2013, Fujian Shenyuan New Materials Co. Ltd (Fujian Shenyuan) selected Air Liquide to build, own and operate a production unit of industrial gases for its Lianjiang caprolactam project in the Fujian Province, China. Fujian Shenyuan is one of the largest producer of nylon fibers […]
E.ON to acquire stake in GDF-Suez Austen (ex Jacqui) On May 30th 2013, the German-based E.ON signed an agreement with the French GDF-Suez to take 25% stake in the Austen discovery in the Central UK North Sea. Until then, GDF-Suez was the solely owner of the working interests in Austen. After the transaction, GDF-Suez will hold 75% […]
UAE to shunt Hormuz Strait with Fujairah Terminal Mubadala Petroleum and the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), both from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, are preparing the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase for their Emirates LNG project in Fujairah. Established in 2002 by the State of Abu Dhabi, the Mubadala Development Company […]
Xodus completes FEED on Banda Gas production The Houston-based engineering company Xodus Group (Xodus) is currently completing the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for the development of the offshore Banda gas field as the upstream part of the Mauritania Gas-To-Power project. In a similar scheme to the Kudu Gas-To-Power project in Namibia, Tullow […]