Sabine Pass LNG Terminal opens overseas export to Shale gas production Originally planned to be a LNG Import Terminal the Sabine Pass LNG project in Lousianna,USA, had been left in stand by for a while, until the Shale gas industry managed to put the domestic gas prices down below $4 per mmBTU with a great […]
ReadVersalis (ENI) and Novamont innovate with the Porto Torres bio-chemical complex Matrica Spa is a 50:50 joint venture between Versalis, previously called Polimeri Europa (the biggest Italian chemical company, a subsidiary of Eni), and Novamont (a global market leader in biodegradable plastics). Matrica has the mission to design, build and operate chemical plants using vegetable oil […]
ReadThe Dow Chemical Company (Dow) will spend $4 billion in capital expenditure for this ethylene and propylene production facilities in Freeport, Texas, USA. This Olefins project illustrates the previous news about the consequences of the Shale gas to provide long term feedstock at very competitive price to the Downstream activities. As a good example of the relocation into USA of the petrochemical industry, this new ethylene […]
ReadMariner is the first field to be developed from the $9.6 billion capital expenditure Mariner & Bressay project located in the UK North Sea Because the offshore ultra heavy crude oil is one of the most challenging exploration & production of the Oil&Gas sector, Statoil decided to proceed step by step. Mariner will go first and Bressay will follow one […]
ReadLundin Petroleum received the formal approval from the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy to proceed with the $4.2 billion plan development and operation (PDO) of the Edvard Grieg oil field. The Edvard Grieg oil field was previously called Luno and is located in the Norwegian North Sea close to the Tellus discoveries, 180 kilometers west of Stavanger, Norway. It is the first […]
ReadLuberef stands for the Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Company created by Saudi Aramco and ExxonMobil. But since 2007, Luberef is a 70/30 joined venture between Saudi Aramco and Jadwa Investment to operate lube oil refineries in Yanbu and Jeddah. With Jeddah and Yanbu refineries, the total Luberef actual capacity runs around 550,000 t/y lubricants, […]
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