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Total lowers Carbon Footprint with Power from Shore Previously called Hild, the Martin Linge development belongs to Total E&P Norge AS (51%), the operator, Petoro AS (30%) and Statoil Petroleum AS (19%). End of March, the Norwegian Government approved the development plan for the Martin Linge oil and gas field. Total capital expenditure is estimated to $4.2 […]
Lukoil awarded $1West Qurna Phase 2 to Samsung Engineering Samsung Engineering officially signed a contract, worth approximately $1 billion, with LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd. (Lukoil) for the development of the West Qurna Phase 2 Contract Area and thereafter to provide assistance to LUKOIL with its carrying out of the commissioning and start up. This engineering contract covers: –Project Management […]
Two leaders build energy Market Leadership with coal gasification Shenua Group (Shenua), from China, and GE, from USA, create the new GE Shenhua Gasification Technology Company Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture (JV) with Headquarter located in Shanghai, China. The firm will sell industrial gasification technology licenses in China, conduct research to improve cost and performance. The company has registered capital of $6 million. Patents and proceeds obtained by the joint venture will be shared evenly. The cooperation is also part of Sino-US joint efforts to develop clean energy, and gasification is a crucial component of that goal. China and USA hold respectively the first and second biggest […]
Definition The coal gasification is a technology that converts coal into a synthesis gas (or syngas) that can then be used to produce chemicals or other products. The syngas produced from coal is also called “Town gas“. The syngas is a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour (H2O) Comments The syngas issued […]
Camisea gas for the $3.5 billion Peru Southern Project Brazilian and Peruvian Governments have approved the Camisea Southern gas pipeline project, the Integrated Petrochemical Complex planned by Braskem and PetroPeru will get the necessary ethane feedstock. Odebrecht will lead the Brazilian consortium to build the $5 billion capital expenditure Peru’s Southern Andean Gas Pipeline from the Camisea gas fields to Quillabamba to supply a […]
Toyo and SOG create TS Participações S.A. Last month MODEC TOYO Offshore Production Systems Pte. Ltd. (MTOPS), a joint company created by Toyo Engineering Corporation (Toyo) and MODEC, Inc. (MODEC) established in Singapore, has been awarded a EPC contract to install topsides units for a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) system from Dutch company of Cernambi Sul MV24 […]
It is not every day that a Major company shakes up its Oil&Gas business model and introduce a new brand to re-position its strategy and consolidate its Market Leadership. But in July 2011, ConocoPhillips had announced to spin off all their Midstream and Downstream activities under the name of Phillips 66. On May 1st, 2012 […]