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Aker and CB&I design $5.6 billion Spar for Statoil Aasta Hansteen

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Statoil, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips rename Luva project into Aasta Hansteen During the concept selection Statoil estimated the development capital expenditure in the Aasta Hansteen field  (formerly named Luva) at some $5.6 billion (NOK 34 billion). With a total hull weight of 45,000 ton, a length of 193 meters and a draught of 170 meters, the Aasta […]

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Technip targets Chemicals and Power with Stone & Webster

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Shaw to sell Energy & Chemicals Group (mostly Stone & Webster) to Technip  On May 21st, 2012, The Shaw Group Inc (Shaw) and Technip announced to have closed a deal to the US based Energy & Chemicals Division, mostly made of Stone & Webster, to the France headquartered engineering company Technip for approximately $300 million. Under

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“SPAR”

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 Definition SPAR is the acronym for Single Point Anchor Reservoir (SPAR). This descriptive definition refers to a floating system with infield flow lines and associated subsea infrastructure to connect the subsea production and injection wells. Comments From design perspective a SPAR is a cylindrical, partially submerged offshore drilling and production platform that is particularly well-adapted

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Mozambique battle intensifies between Shell and PTT

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PTTEP bids above $1.9 billion cash to acquire Cove The state owned company PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Ltd (PTTEP) announced the terms of its new offer in cash to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Cove Energy plc. Since Shell and PTTEP from Thailand were competing to take over Cove Energy (Cove), Shell had made a first offer

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“BOE”

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Definition  BOE is the acronym of Barrel of Oil Equivalent – a unit of energy based on the approximate energy released by burning one barrel of Crude oil. One Barrel contains 42 US gallons or 158.9873 litres of light crude oil which will produce 5.8 × 106 British Thermal Units (million BTU or mBTU) according to the US

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Norway approved Total $4.2 billion Martin Linge project

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Total lowers Carbon Footprint with Power from Shore Previously called Hild, the Martin Linge development belongs to Total E&P Norge AS (51%), the operator, Petoro AS (30%) and Statoil Petroleum AS (19%). End of March, the Norwegian Government approved the development plan for the Martin Linge oil and gas field. Total capital expenditure is estimated to $4.2

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Qatar refuels $400 million into the Mostorod Refinery

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The $3.6 billion ERC Refinery to move on again  The Mostorod Refinery project had been left on hold for more than one year because of the political context in Egypt while Egyptian Refining Company (Takrir) S.A.E. (ERC), a special purpose company established by Citadel Capital, has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (ECP) contracts to a consortium of

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Tight Gas

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Definition Tight gas is the name given to the unconventional natural gas because it is trapped in a very tight  underground hard rock, or sandstone or limestone formation that is unusually impermeable and non-porous called tight sand. Comments In a conventional natural gas deposit, once drilled, the gas can usually be extracted quite readily, and easily. A

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