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Dana reached agreement with Sharjah Emirate on Zora The Sharjah-based private company Dana Gas (Dana) managed to reach an agreement with the authorities of the Sharjah and Ajman Emirates in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) regarding the offshore development of the Zora gas field in the Sharjah Western Offshore concession. In 2008, Dana was awarded by […]
Lekoil to join YFP, Chevron and Vitol in Block OML 113 The local junior company Lekoil Ltd (Lekoil) signed a Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Panoro Energy (Panoro) from Norway to acquire its stake of the Aje project in the Oil Mining Lease 113 (OML 113). This transaction will apply to 6.502% of the […]
Shell Batangas LNG project to go to FEED stage The Royal Dutch Shell Plc (Shell) is moving on the front end engineering and design (FEED) stage on the Batangas LNG import terminal project in Philippines. Working on this project for some years, Shell completed the feasibility study to build a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) […]
Petronas FLNG-2 to require MEG additional module The El Dorado, Arkansas-based, Murphy Oil Corporation (Murphy) and the Malaysian national oil company Petronas are revising upward the design of their floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel for the development of the Block H, offshore Sabah in Malaysia. Since 2007, Murphy accumulates natural gas discoveries in the Block […]
Sempra at final stage for Cameron LNG FERC approval The California-based company Sempra Energy (Sempra) and its partners, GDF-Suez from France, Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi) and Mitsui & Co, Ltd (Mitsui) from Japan , are reaching the final stage of the complex process approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its Cameron LNG project […]
Shah Deniz-2 partners selected TAP over Nabucco The Shah Deniz-2 partners, BP from UK, Total from France and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) have preferred the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project over Nabucco to export their natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe. At the scale of these giant projects, TAP offers the shortest and simplest […]
Exxon and Imperial apply for West Coast LNG plant The super major company, ExxonMobil Corp (ExxonMobil) and its Canadian partner Imperial Oil (Imperial) submitted an application to the National Energy Board (NEB) to export up to 30 million t/y of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the British Columbia West Coast to Asia. With this initiative, […]
SCOP awards Technip Karbala Refinery PMC contract The Iraq national oil company (NOC) State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) selected the French engineering company Technip to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services on the Karbala Refinery project in the center of Iraq. The Karbala Refinery project is part of the Iraq Government to invest between […]
