Posts Tagged ‘Nigeria’

Nigeria to rebuild Refining capacities

Dangote to invest $8 billion in new Nigeria refinery The Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote announced its project to build a greenfield new refinery in Nigeria in order to compensate current imports. Nigeria is the largest crude oil producer in Africa but is also one of the largest importer of fuels (more…)

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Tortue smiles at Harvest Natural Resources in Gabon

Tortue discovery paves Harvest way to Dussafu FPSO The Houston-based Harvest Natural Resources (Harvest) and its partner Panoro Energy (Panoro) from Norway hit pre-salt crude oil again with the Tortue discovery in the Dussafu Marin License offshore Gabon. This success paves the way to Harvest and Panoro to consider the (more…)

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Dangote awards PMC to Tata for Africa largest fertilizer plant

Saipem won EPC contract for Nigeria Edo fertilizer Based in Lagos, Nigeria, the Dangote Group (Dangote) has selected the Indian Tata Consulting Engineering company as project manager consultant (PMC) for its Edo Fertilizer project in Nigeria. Estimated to require $1.9 billion capital expenditure, this Edo Fertilizer project is given as to build (more…)

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BG and Ophir come closer to Tanzania LNG project

Mzia successful appraisal to justify BG two LNG trains The BG Group (BG) and its partner Ophir Energy (Ophir), both from UK, are pilling up natural gas reserves along their on going appraisal campaign offshore the east coast of Africa to the point to double the size of their liquefied (more…)

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Eni in brief

A major integrated energy company Registered in Roma, Italia, Eni S.p.A. (Eni) is a national oil company with 33% shares owned by the Italian Government and 67% listed in the Milan Stock Exchange, Italy and on the New York Stock Exchange. With operations in 85 countries and 79,000 employees, Eni is developing (more…)

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Eni, Vitol and GNPC signed MOU to develop OCTP Blocks

Eni, Vitol and GNPC to develop Ghana offshore gas Eni from Italy, Vitol from The Netherlands and the National Oil Company Ghana National Petroleum Corp (GNPC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) Blocks offshore Ghana. This MOU follows the discoveries by Eni (more…)

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CNOOC and Sinopec to pump $20 billion in upstream acquisitions

CNOOC and Sinopec target Nexen and Talisman assets July 23rd 2012, the Chinese CNOOC Ltd (CNOOC) announced to have signed an Arrangement Agreement with Nexen for the acquisition of the Nexen shares listed in Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. The aggregate value of the proposed acquisition is approximately $15.1 billion (more…)

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Proven reserves

Definition Proven reserves is an industry term that means oil or gas that has been discovered and could be produced with today’s technology. Comments The world consumes about 89 million barrels of oil per day, or 32.5 billion barrels per year. The industry describes a field as giant if it (more…)

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IECEx takes momentum in the Gulf

IECEx addresses safety issues in the Ex field. The IECEx, the IEC System for Certification for Standards relating to Equipment for Use in Explosive Atmospheres, and ESMA (Emirates Standardization and Metrology Authority), in conjunction with UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), have organized the 2012 IECEx International Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on (more…)

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