January 2014

Saudi Arabia to boost Empty Quarter – South Ghawar – Jafurah shale gas

Saudi Aramco to award shale gas treatment FEED The world largest company by the size of crude oil reserves, Saudi Aramco, is planning to award the front end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the gas central processing facilities to support the development of the shale gas exploration – production in three regions of Saudi […]

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Petroceltic, Sonatrach and Enel to develop Algeria Isarene gas field

Petroceltic to prepare FEED on Ain Tsila development The Irish junior company Petroceltic International plc (Petroceltic) and its partners, the Algerian national oil company (NOC) Sonatrach and the Italian utility Enel, are preparing to move into the front end engineering and design (FEED) phase of the Ain Tsila discovery within the Isarene gas and condensate

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JX Nippon and Petronas to develop Malaysia Layang offshore Sarawak

Nippon to run fast track for Layang FPSO conversion The Japanese-owned joint venture JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Ltd (JX Nippon) and its local partner Petronas Carigali (Petronas) are now running on the fast track to develop the Layang gas field, offshore Sarawak in Malaysia, with a converted floating storage production and offloading (FPSO)

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Kuwait to invest in India ONGC Mangalore and Daheij projects

KPC to take share in OMPL and OPAL petrochemicals The national oil companies (NOCs) Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and the Indian Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) are about to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) by which the Kuwaiti company should take share in two major petrochemical projects at Mangalore and at Daheij in

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ONGC at study phase on Krishna Godavari deep offshore project

ONGC to award pre-FEED on KG-DWN-98/2 deepwater The India state-owned company Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is on the way to award the contract to perform the pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) work for the development of the KG-DWN-98/2 project in the deep water of the Krishna Gadavari (KG) Basin offshore the Andhra

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ChemaWEyaat and Indorama sign for Madeenat Aromatics project

Indorama takes seat in Tacaamol Al-Gharbia Complex The Thai chemical company Indorama Ventures (Indorama) and the local Abu Dhabi National Chemicals Corporation (ChemaWEyaat) signed an agreement to establish the joint venture Abu Dhabi Chemicals Integration Company (Tacaamol) to design and build the first phase of the Madeenat ChemaWEyaat Al Gharbia (MCAG) project in the Western

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Petrobras to call for tender Tartaruga Verde converted FPSO

Petrobras on the pace to tender two FPSO per year The Brazilian national oil company (NOC) Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) is ready to publish next week the call for tender to charter a new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the development of the Tartaruga Verde and Tartaruga Mestica oil fields offshore the

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Lukoil and Uzbekneftegas to invest $3 billion in Kandym field expansion

Uzekistan Lukoil Kandym FEED work nears completion The Russia largest privately-owned company Lukoil Oil Company (Lukoil) and the national oil company (NOC) Uzbekneftegas National Holding Company (Uzbekneftegas) are completing the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for the expansion of the Kandym gas field in the Bukhara region, at the center west of Uzbekistan.

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Total and China Power got green light for Inner Mongolia Chemical project

Total to provide CPI with Coal-To-Olefins technology The French major company Total and the local utility China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) have received the approval from the China National Development and Reform Commission to develop Inner Mongolia $4 billion coal-to-olefins (CTO) petrochemical complex in China. Established in 2002, CPI is ranked as the fifth largest power

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Chevron and PTTEP prepare tenders on Thailand Ubon offshore project

Chevron to tender Ubon Offshore Platform and FPU The California-based company Chevron and its partners, PTTEP from Thailand, Hess from USA and Mitsui Oil (Mitsui) from Japan are preparing the calls for tender for the main engineering, production and construction (EPC) contracts to be awarded for the development of the offshore Ubon project in Thailand.

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