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Bechtel wins Ras Laffan Petrochemicals PMC contract The national oil company (NOC) Qatar Petroleum (QP) and the joint venture Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) selected the US-based engineering company Bechtel to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for the Ras Laffan Petrochemicals Project in Qatar. In this partnership with QP, QAPCO is itself a 80/20 joint venture between […]
QGEP gauges two FPSO sizes for Atlanta heavy crude The first Brazilian independent oil company Queiroz Galvao Exploration & Production (QGEP) and its partners, OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A (OGX) and Barra Energia do Brasil Petróleo e Gás Ltda (Barra Energia), are currently evaluating two different schemes to develop the offshore Block BS-4 and select the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Shell and Petronas to double Majnoon production The super major Shell and its partners, the national oil companies Petronas from Malaysia and South Oil Company (SOC) from Iraq, are planning to invest up to $1 billion capital expenditure to double the production at the Majnoon oil field in the south of Iraq. Shell and its partners […]
Chissonga FPSO and TLP to be tendered separately Maersk Oil and Gas A/S (Maersk) from Denmark, the national oil company Sonangol from Angola and Odebrecht from Brazil are proceeding to the selection of the contractors to be invited to bid on a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel and a tension leg wellhead platform […]
Shell won Bab Sour Gas project on sulfur monetization The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) selected the super major company Shell to form a joint venture and develop the challenging Bab Sour Gas field in the southwest of the Emirates. Pending since 2007, this decision comes at a critical time as it may figure out […]
Chevron additional reserves credit Gorgon Expansion While Chevron continues to harvest natural gas discoveries in the Greater Gorgon area offshore Western Australia, its partners ExxonMobil and Shell review the costs estimates for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) Train 4 of the Gorgon Expansion project. When Chevron and its partners made the final investment decision (FID) to […]
