November 2014

Total and QP study Offshore Al Khaleej oil field re-development

Total Qatar Al Khalij Phase-4 to optimize oil production The French major Total SA (Total) and its local partner the national oil company (NOC) Qatar Petroleum (QP) are working on the Al Khalij Phase-4 project in considering the optimization along the next decades of the Al Khalij oil field exploration and production offshore Qatar in […]

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PetroVietnam joins SCG and Qatar Petroleum in Long Son Refinery

PetroVietnam to boost Long Son Refinery project The national oil company (NOC) Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has bought stake from its sister State-owned company Vietnam National Chemical Group (Vinachem) in order to boost the development of the Long Son Refinery project in the Vung Tau Province of southern Vietnam in partnership with the

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Total gears up in UK North Sea Laggan-Tormore

Total to develop West Shetland Tormore Oil Rim project The French international oil company (IOC) Total SA (Total) and its partner DONG Energy A/S (DONG) from Denmark are considering to develop the crude oil field discovered in rim of the Laggan-Tormore gas fields offshore West Shetland in the UK North Sea. Through its Laggan-Tormore gas field

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Oman Oil in progress with Sohar Petrochemical complex project

Takamul to call for tender Sohar PTA and PET projects The joint venture Oman International Petrochemical Industry Company (OIPIC) between the State-owned companies Takamul Investment Company (Takamul), Oman Oil Company (OOC) and the South Korean LG Corporation (LG) is preparing the call for tender to invite engineering companies to bid for the engineering, procurement and

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Gazprom and Petrohemija to boost Serbia refining and petrochemicals

Gazprom to upgrade NIS Pancevo refinery The Russian giant JSC Gazprom Neft (Gazprom) is planning to upgrade the Naftna Industria Srbije (NIS) refinery located in Pancevo on the east of Belgrade, Serbia. The NIS refinery results from a joint venture between Gazprom, the Republic of Serbia (Serbia) and minority stakeholders share the working interests such

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Santos submitted referral for Australia Narrabri Gas Project

Narrabri CBM to supply New South Wales gas market On November 2014, the Adelaide-based independent oil and gas company Santos Ltd (Santos) and its partner EnergyAustralia ltd submitted an Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) referral to the Commonwealth Government for the environmental assessment of its Narrabri coal bed methane (CBM) project in the New South Wales (NSW) Gunnedah

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Eni and Anadarko in expectation for Mozambique LNG projects

New Mozambique President to guide projects decisions The Italian major company Eni Spa (Eni) and the Houston-based independent company Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Anadarko) are now expecting from the Presidential elections to speed up the publication of the regulation to guide their final investment decisions (FID) on their respective Mozambique liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects. Since

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Westlake Chemical extends the list of US ethane cracker projects

Westlake to expand Louisiana Lake Charles Ethylene While Westlake Chemical Corporation (Westlake) was celebrating the completion of its expansion in Calvert City, Kentucky, the Houston-based company announced a new project with the expansion of its historical Lake Charles ethylene plant in Louisiana, USA. Originally established in 1986 in Louisiana with a low density polyethylene plant

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BP and PLN gas agreement triggers Tangguh Expansion Project

BP to go for FEED on Indonesia Tangguh LNG Train-3 The UK-based major company BP and its partners China National Offshore Oil Corporation Muturi Ltd (CNOOC), Mitsubishi–Inpex Berau BV (Mitsubishi–Inpex), Nippon Oil Exploration Berau Ltd ( Nippon Oil), KG Berau Petroleum Ltd (KG Berau) in joint venture with KG Wiriagar Petroleum Ltd (KG Wiriagar), Indonesia

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SAGE to build Middle-East To India Deepwater Gas Pipeline

South Asia Gas Enterprise at work on 1,300 km MEIDP The Indian joint venture South Asia Gas Enterprise Pvt Ltd (SAGE) is now preparing the front end engineering and design (FEED) for its deepwater transnational gas pipeline called Middle-East to India Deepwater Pipeline (MEIDP) to import gas from Iran and Oman into India. Despite its own

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