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Oman boosts upstream and downstream with $33 billion projects

PDO Saih Rawl, PDO Zauliyah and BP Khazzam and Makarem lead Oman natural gas development Last  August, the national oil company (NOC) Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO) awarded the Saih Rawl Depletion Compression Phase 2 (SRDC2) project to Larsen & Toubro from India to provide with the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract. Earlier this month, […]

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EOR

Definition EOR is the acronym of enhanced oil recovery and refers to all the ultimate technologies to compensate the natural depletion of the oil and gas fields Comments In developing a new oil and gas field, the natural pressure of the reservoir is at its maximum. For the oil fields, this natural pressure combined with

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BP scales up to $24 billion tight gas Oman Full Field Development

BP to develop Khazzan and Makarem in phase 1 BP revised significantly upward its capital expenditure in Oman Full Field Development project from $15 billion to $24 billion. Discovered in the 1990s, the huge reserves of natural gas in Center Oman have been left undeveloped because of the complexity and the potential costs related to

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BASF and Total merge Port Arthur operations into BASF Total Petrochemicals

BASF FINA Petrochemicals LP and Sabina Petrochemicals to merge into one joint venture The global chemical leader BASF SE, from Germany, and the international oil company Total SA, from France, have decided to merge the assets of the two joint ventures they have in Port Arthur, Texas, USA, to create a new joint venture called

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Orascom Construction Industry to build $1.3 billion Iowa Fertilizer

Shale gas boosts OCI into Iowa biggest investment ever The Iowa Fertilizer Company (IFC) a subsidiary of the Egyptian company Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) made the final investment decision (FID) to build a world-scale fertilizer plant in Iowa, USA. OCI selected the location near Wever, in the Lee County, southeastern Iowa, to develop its greenfield

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Shell to lead Carbon Capture and Sequestration in oil sands

Shell made FID on $2 billion Quest Athabasca CCS project Shell, Chevron and Marathon Oil (Marathon) made the final investment decision (FID) for the Quest CO² Capture Sequestration project through their Athabasca Oil Sands Project joint venture. In order to reduce the carbon footprint of the oil sands exploration and production in the Athabasca Oil

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Hess progresses on Australia deep offshore Equus LNG project

Hess awarded FEED for Semi-submersible on WA-390-P Block Established in New Jersey, the American Hess Corporation (Hess) is based in New York City, USA. Since 2007, Hess holds the 100% working interest of the WA-390-P Block offshore Western Australia to develop the Equus project. Equus is part of the $6.8 billion Hess’s capital expenditure budget

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Woodside eyes on third parties to trigger Pluto LNG expansion

Woodside in talks with ExxonMobil, BHP and Hess Earlier this year, Woodside Petroleum (Woodside) and its partners Tokyo Gas Pluto Pty ltd (Tokyo gas) and Kansai Electric Power Australia Pty Ltd (Kansai Electric) started up operations of the Pluto LNG project. Tokyo Gas and Kansai Electric are in the same time the purchasers of Pluto gas

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