Sinopec
Sabic and China Petrochemical and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) have signed together a protocol of co-operation to open negotiations with Trinidad and Tobago to build Methanol-To-Olefins plant. The capacity is not yet defined, but the capital expenditure is estimated around $5.3 billion. For more information and data about oil and gas and petrochemical projects go to […]
According to an interview of Mr Fu Chengyu, who became chairman of Sinopec‘s parent in April, to Bloomberg, Sinopec is considering to sell its chemical assets in the next five years in order to finance its overseas development. Benchmarking the Majors like ExxonMobil or Shell, Sinopec wants to balance it Upstream activities and Downstream business. With profitability […]
Total joins Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) represented by its wholly-owned subsidiaries Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) and Petrochemicals Industries Co. (PIC) in the Joined Venture with Sinopec for this $9 billion “Refinery” and “Petrochemical” complex at Zhanjiang, in China’s southern Guangdong province. In fact Total took the opportunity to substitute Shell which had pulled out of […]
After benchmarking the USA who should become a net gas exporter in 2012 for the first time in their history, China has learnt the lesson very fast and decided to develop their reserves of shale gas on fast track to reduce their energy dependency. The fact is that China hosts 19% of the global reserves of shale […]
Definition: The “NOC” acronym means “National Oil Companies” and refers to the local oil producing companies owned by their respective government. Therefore there are nearly as many “NOCs” as countries in the world, but the most famous ones are: Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, Statoil, Petrochina, Sinopec, Petrobras, ADNOC, Qatar Petroleum, etc…. Comment: Historically the “NOCs” used […]
