June 2014

Green light on Canada Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project

Enbridge received Canadian Government approval The Calgary-based midstream company Enbridge Inc. (Enbridge) received the formal approval from the Canadian Government to proceed with the as sensitive as strategic Northern Gateway Pipeline project to unlock Alberta bitumen reserves toward Asia export throughout British Columbia in western Canada.  For decades Canada has been exporting 99% of its […]

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Saudi Aramco Shoaiba Terminal on Red Sea at bidding stage

Shoaiba Storage tendered as In-Kingdom EPC contract Saudi Aramco is continuously adjusting its contractual strategy for the construction of the hydrocarbon bulk storage terminal planned at the mi-distance of the Saudi Arabia west coast on the Red Sea. Located 220 kilometers south of Jeddah, Shoaiba is the city on the west coast at the shortest

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Pemex to develop deep offshore Lakach from shore in Gulf of Mexico

Mexico new constitution to boost Lakach development The State wholly-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is expecting the future constitution in Mexico to boost the development of the deep offshore gas field Lakach in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico. In 2005, Pemex launched a large exploration campaign in the Mexico deep water of the Gulf

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Shell Anadarko and Statoil at concept study on Vito US Gulf of Mexico

Shell and Statoil compare EOR solutions to boost Vito The Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), the US independent company Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Anadarko) and the Norwegian national oil company (NOC) Statoil are mobilizing their best experts in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques to compare the different solutions to boost the production from the Vito oil and

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Ventech and Velocys in JV with Waste Management and NRG for small-scale GTL projects

Waste Management to monetize waste biogas into GTL Ventech Engineering International LLC (Ventech), Velocys plc (Velocys), Waste Management Inc. (Waste Management) and NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) formed a joint venture to develop and promote  gas-to-liquids (GTL) small-scale production units to monetize biogas and natural gas. These four companies are bringing together their respective expertise to take the

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Kitsault Energy Project: The shortest LNG connection from B.C. to Asia

Kitsault LNG to include Dedicated Energy Corridor pipe The independent Canadian company Kitsault Energy (Kitsault) is proposing the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project offering the shortest way from the shale gas fields in the north of British Columbia in Canada to Asia. With a lot of natural resources and no unemployment issues, Canada is pushing

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Qatar Petroleum and Oxy tender Idd-Al-Shargi North Dome Phase-5

Oxy split ISND Expansion project in five EPC packages The state-owned company Qatar Petroleum (QP) and its US partner Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) are moving forward on the development of the Idd-Al-Shargi North Dome (ISND) fifth phase  project offshore the Qatar Peninsula in the Arabic Persian Gulf. Located 90 kilometers east of Doha, Idd-Al-Shargi is

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Noble Energy to go for conventional FPSO in Israel Leviathan

Noble and Woodside terminated Leviathan MOU In May 2014, the Texas-based independent company Noble Energy Inc. (Noble) and the Australian national oil company (NOC) Woodside terminated their memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding their potential cooperation in the development of the giant non-associated gas field Leviathan offshore Israel in the Mediterranean Sea. This non-binding MOU had been

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Stewart Energy in the race to export Canadian gas to Asia

Stewart LNG to combine floating and onshore facilities The Canada Stewart Energy Group Ltd ( Stewart Energy) is planning to combine floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) production unit with conventional onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in order to boost the export of natural gas from British Columbia (BC) in western Canada to China. Registered

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Sasol and Ineos in Joint Venture for LaPorte HDPE project in Texas-USA

Sasol HDPE relocated from Lake Charles to LaPorte The Swiss-based Ineos Group AG (Ineos) and the South African petrochemical company Sasol Ltd (Sasol) made the final investment decision (FID) in their joint venture to build a greenfield bimodal high density polyethylene (HDPE) in LaPorte,Texas USA. On early 2013, Sasol had confirmed its intention to move forward

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