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Block 61 among world largest tight gas development In January 2013, BP received the technical and commercial offers from the engineering companies bidding on the key packages of its Block 61 tight gas full field development phase-1 project in the Sultanate of Oman. Last September, BP had announced to scale up its capital expenditure from $15 billion […]
Chevron to spend $5.6 billion in Mafumeira Sul project Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Ltd (Cabinda), the Angola subsidiary of the California-based international oil company Chevron Corporation (Chevron) and its partners Sonangol, Total and Eni made the final investment decision (FID) regarding the Mafumeira Sul project. Located offshore Angola, the Mafumeira Sul project (Mafumeira South) is the expansion […]
Apache and JX to join Carnarvon and Finder in Phoenix Apache Corporation (Apache) from USA and JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (JX Nippon) from Japan have seen their project of Farm-in Agreement with Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd (Carnarvon) and Finder Exploration (Finder), both from Australia, approved by the Australian Authorities. Last October, Apache, JX Nippon […]
Fluor and WorleyParsons in JV with KING and KGNT In May 2012, TengizChevrOil (TCO), the joint venture between Chevron, ExxonMobil, KazMunaiGas (KMG) and LukArco (Lukoil), awarded a first FEED and EPCM contract to a Fluor-led joint venture with WorleyParsons and Kazakh companies KING and KGNT for the Wellhead Pressure Management package of the Tengiz Future […]
KNPC awarded PMC contract to Foster Wheeler On December 23rd, 2012, the state-owned oil refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) selected Foster Wheeler for the project management consultancy (PMC) contract of the multi-billion Clean Fuels Project (CFP). In Kuwait, the CFP project, as well as the New Refinery Project (NRP) were left on hold nearly four years […]
Jacobs completed FEED on mining Phosphate City The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) is moving into the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase for its $6 billion capital expenditure Phosphate City project. To be located in the north of Saudi Arabia, the Phosphate City project is also called Al-Khabra project as Maaden is aiming at debottlenecking the Al-Khabra phosphates mines. Through the Phosphate City […]
AltaGas and Idemitsu to build LNG facility on BC coast AltaGas Ltd (AltaGas) from Alberta in Canada and the Japanese Idemitsu Kosan Corporation Ltd (Idemitsu) have decided to form the 50/50 AltaGas Idemitsu Joint Venture Limited Partnership joint venture to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) from Canada to Asia. Since USA […]
Shell to start upstream and postpone LNG Trains Since November 2012, the Anglo-Dutch international company, Shell, and China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina) multiplied announcements to reconsider their Arrow LNG project in the Queensland in eastern Australia. Shell and PetroChina wholly own the Arrow LNG project through a 50/50 joint venture with the intention to invest […]
