December 2014

One Day – One Country: Thailand

Thailand Key Projects and Business Highlights In Thailand the oil and gas and petrochemical activity is driven by the national oil company (NOC) PTT Public Company Limited (PTT) and its more know subsidiary PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Ltd (PTTEP) with the support of foreign majors such as Chevron or Mitsui Oil Exploration Company (Mitsui or MOECO) and independent […]

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One Day – One Country: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2014 Yearly

Saudi Arabia Projects and Business Highlights 2014 On the last five years, the national oil company (NOC) Saudi Aramco invested mostly in the downstream sector including large grassroot refineries and the largest petrochemical complexes in the world. But on the second half of the year 2014 we could see Saudi Aramco turning back to upstream activities to explorer new resources

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One Day – One Country: Australia 2014 Yearly

Australia Key Projects and Business Highlights Since 2013, Australia suffered from hard messages when series of oil and gas companies no less than Apache, BG Group (BG), BHP Billiton (BHP), Chevron, ExxonMobil, Inpex, PetroChina (CNPC), Shell or Total sent warning announcements regarding the spiraling costs of their projects with the immediate consequence to freeze all

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Oman Oil Musandam gas-fired power plant reaches EPC stage

Oman Oil Musandam IPP to replace diesel powergen The wholly state-owned Oman Oil Company (Oman Oil or OOC) and its partner LG International Corporation  (LG) from South Korea made the final investment decision for their joint venture Musandam Power Company (MPC) independent power plant (IPP) to be built at Tibat-Wilayat Bukha in the Musandam Governorate

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Finland and Estonia agree on LNG Import Terminals projects

Gasum to build – operate Finngulf LNG Import Terminal The Finnish midstream company Gasum Oy (Gasum) will build and operate the Finngulf LNG Terminal project in order to import, store liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Finland in connection with the neighboring Estonia on the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. Since 1860 Gasum is importing

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Chevron and Dana to extend UK Captain life with chemical injection

Chevron validated chemical EOR to maintain Captain The Californian San Ramon-based international oil company (IOC) Chevron Corporation (Chevron) and its partner Dana Petroleum (Dana), a Korean National Oil Company‘s subsidiary, have validated the conclusions of the pilot study to test the performances of the chemical injection as the preferred enhanced oil recovery techniques (EOR) to maintain the production

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Noble to expand Israel Tamar to feed Egypt Damietta LNG Terminal

Noble and Union Fenosa Gas signed Tamar gas supply The Texas-based companies Noble Energy (Noble) and Isramco Negev and their Israeli partners Delek Drilling, Avner Oil Exploration (Avner) and Dor Gas Exploration ( Dor Gas) signed a non-bidding letter of intend (LOI) with Union Fenosa Gas SA (UFG), the joint venture between Gas Natural from

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Cronus Chemicals selects Illinois to add nitrogen fertilizer plant in USA

Cronus to produce ammonia – urea in Tuscola – Illinois The Chicago-registered company Cronus Chemicals LLC (Cronus) has selected Tuscola in the State of Illinois to build a greenfield nitrogen fertilizer plant to produce ammonia and urea in USA. USA is the third largest consuming country of fertilizer in the world after China and India as

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