Shell to replicate Pearl GTL with Lousiana GTL project Since the South Africa company Sasol had announced last year to select its site in Lake Charles in Westlake of Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana, Shell opted also for the Lousiana Gulf Coast for its gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in USA. At the CERAWeek, (more…)
Read morePetrobras to send invitations to bid on Carioca FPSO Petrobras and its partners, BG Group (BG) and Repsol-Sinopec Brazil, are preparing the invitation to bid (ITB) to be sent to the charter companies for the lease of a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at Carioca in the Santos (more…)
Read moreNoble Energy plans first Colorado LNG facility The Houston-based Noble Energy (Noble) announced to build and operate the first facility in Colorado, USA, to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG). With a production capacity of only 100,000 gallons per day (approximately 60,000 tonnes per year), this Colorado LNG plant will rank among (more…)
Read moreHuntsman and Sinopec Jinling to invest $750 million The Texas-based chemical company Huntsman Corporation (Huntsman) and the Sinopec Jinling Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Jinling) have decided to form a joint venture to build and operate a greenfield world-scale Propylene Oxide (PO) and Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) plant in Nanjing, in (more…)
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Jul
2012
Associated gas
Definition Associated gas refers to the natural gas found in association with oil within the reservoir. There are also reservoirs that contain only natural gas and no oil, this gas is termed non-associated gas. Comments Raw natural gas comes from three types of wells: oil wells, gas wells, and condensate wells. natural (more…)
Read morePhiladelphia Refinery to rely on Marcellus shale gas Last year Sunoco Inc (Sunoco) had announced to close the Philadelphia refinery in Pennsylvania, USA, on summer 2012 if no buyer could be found in the meantime. But the development of the shale gas in USA much faster than expected and in (more…)
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10
Jul
2012
“Methanol”
Definition Methanol is the contraction of Methyl Alcohol. Methanol may also be called, wood alcohol or wood spirit because it can be produced as a by-product of the wood distillation. Methanol is a light, colorless, flammable liquid at room temperature, and contains less carbon and more hydrogen than any other liquid (more…)
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