Eni discoveries trigger debate on upstream localization In September 2012, the Italian national oil company Eni and its partners, Vitol from The Netherlands and the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC), made the first oil discovery in the Offshore Cape Three Point (OCPT) block in the Tano Basin about 50 kilometers offshore Ghana. The exploration and […]
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Energy on the move Established in1933 by Leon Hess to truck and deliver oil in New Jersey, Hess Corporation has become today a global independent energy company acting: – Upstream in oil, natural gas and condensate exploration production – Downstream in refining and marketing refined petroleum products and natural gas – Distributing electricity With Headquarter in
STAR Refining plans one of largest projects in Turkey Through the joint venture STAR Refining Inc. established in January 2012, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (Socar) and Turcas Petroleum AS (Turcas) are developing the $5 billion Aegean Refinery project on the western coast of Turkey on the Aegean Sea. The Socar Turcas Aegean
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Supremus-1 and Trion-1 open Pemex new horizon The Mexican national oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) made two major discoveries in a month in the Perdido Fold Belt deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico. In August 2012, Trion-1, first Pemex’s successful well was drilled only 39 kilometers from the US territorial waters by 2,540 meters deepwater
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We build the Pemex of the Future Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was established as the Mexican national oil company in 1939 as a result of the Oil Industry Expropriation Presidential Decree. In 1992, the Mexican Federal Government published a new Organic Law to position Pemex and its subsidiaries as a decentralized entity of the Federal Government
Pemex to import natural gas from Eagle Ford shale field The Mexican national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), through its international gas trading division MexGas International (MGI), is pursuing several pipelines projects to import natural gas from USA. In Mexico as in other countries, the price of the natural gas is a key driver of the performances
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BASF to take parts of Poland Ciech’s TDI business On October 2012, the Ludwigshafen, Germany-based, BASF, acquired parts of Ciech Chemical Group’s (Ciech) Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI) business. This announcement comes in the same time as BASF is currently building the world largest single train TDI plant in Europe. BASF is a global leader in the
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We create chemistry for a sustainable future. Established in 1865, in Mannheim, Germany, under the name of Badische Anilin- and Soda-Fabrik, BASF’s first factory was finally built on the other bank of the River Rhein in Ludwigshafen in Bavaria, Germany. Since that time BASF became the world leading chemical company listed in Frankfurt, London and Zurich
Technip signs FEED contract for Dow Texas Operations October 2012, The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) selected Technip from France for the front end engineering and design (FEED) of its world scale ethylene project on the Gulf Coast, Texas, USA. Dow is the world largest manufacturer of olefin and polyolefin products. Based on ethylene cracking, the production costs are directly related
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240 projects represent more than 680 billion CAPEX On November 5th 2012, the Project Smart Explorer data base contains the 240 largest projects of the oil and gas and petrochemical industry. These projects represent more than 680 billion of capital expenditure to be mostly invested on the next three years by 166 end users. These end
