tight oil
Suncor to operate Athabasca Fort Hills mining project Suncor Energy (Suncor) from Canada and its partners, Total from France and Teck Resources Ltd (Teck) from Canada, made the final investment decision (FID) to develop Fort Hills oil sands mine project in Athabasca at the northeast of Alberta, Canada. This decision comes in a context where […]
Canada Key Projects and Business Highlights The projects and acquisitions announced on first half 2013 by the international oil companies (IOCs) such as Apache, BG Group (BG) , Chevron, ExxonMobil, Idemitsu, Shell or TransCanada, and by national oil companies (NOCs) such as China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina) or Petronas confirm the strategic evolution of the energy policy […]
Argentina Key Projects and Business Highlights Argentina is one these countries with oil and gas reserves among the largest in the world but have hard to stand self-sufficient in energy. Since 2007, the export tax scheme for oil and gas was conceived primarily to allocate the local production to the domestic market before exporting elsewhere. In doing […]
Chevron to build shale pilot in Neuquen Province The California-based super major Chevron Corporation (Chevron) and YPF from Argentina signed Heads of Agreement to spent $1.24 billion capital expenditure to explore and develop the shale oil and gas in the Vaca Muerta Basin within the Neuquen Province in Argentina. Chevron is operating in Argentina for many […]
Shell – Estonian Eesti Energia – Karak International Oil to explore and develop Jordan oil shale resources The Jordan Oil Shale Company (JOSCO), a wholly owned Shell subsidiary, the Estonia company Eesti Energia (Enefit) and Karak International Oil (Karak) from the UK–based Jordan Energy and Mining Ltd, are now moving from the exploration phases of […]
Rosneft’s Neftegaz signed farm-in agreement with ExxonMobil in Gulf of Mexico deepwater The first week of March gave the opportunity to Rosneft to unveil its objective to go global in multiplying strategic partnerships with leading companies such as ExxonMobil. On March 6th 2013, Rosneft‘s subsidiary Neftegaz America Shelf LP (Nefetgaz) signed with ExxonMobil a Farm-in Agreement […]
Rosneft to lead pilot project in Bazhenov formation In line with the strategic cooperation agreement signed in August 2011, Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed a Pilot Development Agreement to explore and produce tight oil from the Bazhenov and Achimov formation in the Western Siberia. According to the terms of the Pilot Development Agreement, Rosneft and ExxonMobil will create […]
CNOOC and Petronas to acquire Nexen and Progress On December 7th, 2012, Canada Prime Minister John Harper announced the approval for two national oil companies China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) and Petronas from Malaysia to acquire respectively: – Nexen Inc. (Nexen) – Progress Energy Resources Corp. (Progress) For Nexen, CNOOC is ready to pay $15.1 […]
