oil and gas
Shell ramps up upstream activities toward Turkey 2023 In November 2011, Shell and Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) signed a joint operating agreement to initiate exploration and production onshore and offshore Turkey oil and gas fields. In this agreement Shell and TPAO are considering the development of conventional and unconventional resources. Focusing originally on the Mediterranean […]
Powering Possibilities The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), the state-owned oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is headquartered in Dhahran. Saudi Aramco ranks first among oil companies worldwide in terms of: – Crude oil production and exports – Natural gas liquids (NGL) exports, and are among the leading producers of natural gas. As […]
Saudi Aramco to award Clean Fuel project at year end In April 2011, Saudi Aramco had selected Foster Wheeler and A. Al-Saihati, A. Fattani & O. Al-Othman Consulting Engineering Co., (SOFCON) for the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) of the Riyadh Refinery Clean Transportation Fuel project. In parallel of the FEED contract, Foster Wheeler and SOFCON had been awarded the Project […]
Jizan refinery EPC bids deadline closed on Sept 15th Saudi Aramco is willing to proceed now without further delay with the $7 billion Jazan refinery project. Also called Jizan, the Jazan refinery is the master piece of Saudi Arabia Jazan scheme. To develop the economy and wealth in southern Saudi Arabia, close to the Yemen border, […]
Dow to increase customer focus and reduce costs Last July, The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) reported 31% tumbled earnings for the second quarter 2012 as the consequence of the global slowdown of the demand and depressed prices on global markets. Less than two months later Dow is publishing its new global organization to restore earnings […]
The E&P company of choice for all stakeholders by pioneering a new standard of excellence Headquartered in Houston, Texas, ConocoPhillips is present in almost 30 countries. Until listing separately Phillips 66 on May 1st 2012, ConocoPhillips was the third largest integrated energy company in USA and the fifth largest refiner in the world. Since then ConocoPhillips is focusing […]
ConocoPhillips to merge Offshore experience and Cascade LNG know-how into its first Floating LNG In 1969 the ConocoPhillips Company (ConocoPhillips) pioneered liquefaction of natural gas (LNG) with its first LNG facility in Kenai LNG, Alaska, USA. Then ConocoPhillips optimized its process with a series of world-scale onshore LNG projects, Atlantic LNG, Egyptian LNG, Darwin LNG, Equatorial LNG and Angola […]
BP low sality EOR to bring 6% additional oil recovery BP and its partners ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Shell presented at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen a new technology to significantly improve the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology by water injection. Based on the principle of low salinity water injection, BP deployes this new technology […]
