Refinery
Velocys to provide technology to Pinto Ohio GTL project The Houston-based Pinto Energy (Pinto) has selected Ashtabula in the Ohio, USA to build its first unit of series of small scale unit of gas-to-liquids (GTL) transformation. Considering the long standing gap between the natural gas prices and the low sulfur diesel price, Pinto Energy identified the […]
Shell and ExxonMobil court InterOil for new LNG project The super major companies Shell from The Netherlands and ExxonMobil from USA are head to head in intensive negotiations with InterOil Corporation (InterOil) for the development of world scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Listed in New York Stock Exchange, InterOil was […]
Saudi Aramco to expand Khurais and Shaybah oil fields After years to push ahead its refining and petrochemical activities, Saudi Aramco is coming back to its upstream core business in preparing the expansion of the giant Khurais and Shaybah oil and gas fields. As the most influential member of the OPEC organization, Saudi Arabia is […]
GDF-Suez and Sonatrach to invest $3 billion in Touat The Algerian national company Sonatrach and the France-based utility and energy group GDF-Suez selected the Spanish engineering company Tecnicas Reunidas to execute the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract for the development of the giant Touat gas field in southwestern Algeria. In the Touat project, […]
Dominion to invest $3.8 billion in Cove Point LNG Based in Richmond, Virginia, the US utility and midstream company Dominion has been granted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) of the forth approval for the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the non-free trade agreement (non-FTA) countries out of its Cove Point LNG project […]
Dialog-Vopak to feed Petronas Pengerang power plant The Malaysian Dialog Group Berhard (Dialog) and the Rotterdam-based Royal Vopak (Vopak) are preparing the final investment decision (FID) on the Pengerang LNG Terminal project in the Johor Province at southern Peninsular Malaysia while the local engineering company Anewa is completing the construction of the first phase of […]
Australia Bonaparte FLNG to start operations in 2019 The French energy group GDF-Suez and its Australian partner Santos Ltd (Santos) are planning to award the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract on the first quarter 2014 for the development of the Bonaparte floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) to be moored offshore Western Australia. This […]
DNO and Genel ready for FID on Block Dohuk project The Norwegian independent company DNO and its partners, a Turkish-based company Genel Energy (Genel) and the local Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) are preparing the final investment decision (FID) to develop on fast track the Block Dohuk in the north of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. […]
