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$50 billion estimated to develop giant Mamba gas field In October 2011, the Italian National oil Company ENI announced a first giant discovery with the successful well appraisal in Namba South 1 within ENI’s concession Area 4, offshore Mozambique in the Rovuma Basin. The Manba South 1 field is located in 1,585 meters depth, 40 […]

Badra Export pipeline and Infield pipeline awarded soon Gazprom continues to award engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the different packages of its $2 billion Badra development project. Badra oil field is located in the Wasit Province at the Southeast of Iraq. Badra is part of these giant fields that the Iraq Government intends to develop to increase […]

Definition Oil sands are bitumen deposits  which naturally occurred from the mixture of thick, heavy oil, water and sand. Since the heavy oil is classified as bitumen, Oil sands are scientifically named as Bituminous sands. Oil sands may also be called Tar sands where Tar refers to the residue produced from organic material distillation such as bitumen. […]

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 […]

Vostochnaya Neftechemicheskaya moves on Nakhodka petrochemical complex project ZAO Vostochnaya Neftechemicheskaya (VNHK) is fully owned  OJSC NK ROSNEFT (Rosneft) company created in 2011 to develop a petrochemical complex in Primorsky region, near Pervostroiteley settlement of Nakhodkinsky urban district. Nakhodka is located in the Vladivostok region, in the East of the Russian Federation.  Rosneft’s VNHK is planning […]

Nizhnekamskneftekhim awards basic to CB&I Lummus OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) selected CB&I Lummus (CB&I) to perform front end engineering and design (FEED) of a new olefins complex in Russia. This new petrochemical complex will be located in the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. Earlier, on April, 2012, NKNK and CB&I had signed a License Agreement and Basic […]

OMV and Wintershall to appraise Shuwaihat sour gas and condensate field The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), signed a Technical Evaluation Agreement (TEA) with OMV Abu Dhabi E&P GmbH (OMV) and Wintershall Middle East GmbH – Abu Dhabi (Wintershall) to appraise the sulfur rich sour gas (H2S and CO2) and condensate field in Shuwaihat. This Agreement is […]

Definition HVDC is the acronym of High Voltage Direct Current. HVDC refers to a technology to transmit high electric power across long distances, typically several hundreds kilometers Comments The modern form of HVDC transmission uses technology developed extensively in the 1930s in Sweden by ABB. Early commercial installations included one in Russia in 1951 between Moscow […]