Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or "the Company") has entered into turnkey contracts to build four new ultra-deepwater drillships. Two drillships will be built at the DSME yard and the other two at the Samsung yard, in South Korea. The project ...
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China's new natural gas pricing mechanism will create two separate bands of prices across the country with an average difference of 42%, although over 90% of supply will still be priced at the lower level. The National Development and ...
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The US Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from refiners and other groups to overturn a lower-court decision denying its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's partial approval of the ethanol/gasoline blend E15. ...
Large diameter thick wall straight seam double submerged arc welding pipe welding technology invented back in 1940, a new welding method. It is the same place, and manual welding or the use of slag to protect it, but this is not a slag ...
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A US commodity trading house has filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against BP, Shell and Statoil, the three European oil companies being investigated by the European Commission for suspected manipulation of oil prices. The oil ...
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In 2003, Yukos was preparing for a game-changing merger with another private Russian oil company, Roman Abramovich's Sibneft, to create a 2.3 million b/d Russian oil producing giant. The deal was scuppered, however, in large part because ...
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To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
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Highway repair money is running lean in many states, due to decreased revenue from gas tax--a result of cars becoming more fuel efficient and Americans driving less. To plug the crater in highway funding, several states have proposed new ...
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State oil companies China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, and China National Petroleum Corp. over the weekend said they would boost supplies of oil products to central Sichuan province, following a major earthquake Saturday morning ...
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Shell said it reduced by 50% the volume of oil spills from its onshore operations in Nigeria's Niger Delta in 2012 compared with the previous year, but that oil theft from the company's facilities remain a long-term challenge. "The volume ...
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The war of words between the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and the Renewable Fuels Association hit a boiling point Thursday morning. RFA President Bob Dinneen was responding to comments Wednesday from AFPM President ...
EU-listed and large private oil, gas and mining companies will be forced to reveal more about their payments to governments under new EU rules agreed informally late Tuesday by EU negotiators. Some big oil companies, including Shell, had ...
A packing arm is utilized to be able to transport large plenty of melted petrol or perhaps liquid just like oil and many others collected from one of auto to a different or perhaps collected from one of aquarium to a different. Unique ...
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Iran is re-appraising an offshore oil field that India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) had abandoned as commercially non-viable, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported Wednesday. "The project is at the stage of processing ...
Two US Senate Democrats Monday introduced bills aimed at cutting some federal support for oil and gas companies. California Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced the Drilling Royalty Relief Prohibition Act, which would prohibit the Interior ...
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