Topsides of the Asian biggest deep-sea oil and gas platform, central platform for Liwan 3-1 gas field, have completed float-over installation in South China Sea. With water depth of 1,500 meters, Liwan 3-1 is the first Chinese deep-sea gas ...
Tags: Offshore Oil, Gas Platform
There are some very specific problems that need to be overcome when dealing with produced waters from offshore oil and gas production. In the first of a series of three articles, oil industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment ...
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that its subsidiary Chengde Iron and Steel Co. has received an order for 7,000 mt of rebar from China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), one of China's major ...
Tags: CNOOC, Chengde Steel, Metallurgy
China's largest buyer of LNG, China National Offshore Oil Corp., is unlikely to seek additional spot cargoes before August as it has sufficient inventory from its term contracts, said industry sources Friday. A source close to the 2.8 ...
Tags: Spot LNG Cargoes, Chemicals
China National Offshore Oil Corp or CNOOC Group, the parent of listed arm CNOOC Ltd, refined 30.08 million mt (602,400 b/d) of crude last year, up 15.2% from 26.1 million mt in 2011, the company said in its 2012 sustainable development ...
Tags: Refining Throughput, Chemicals, OIL
US Representative Kevin Cramer, a Republican and North Dakota's lone House member, believes that hardline, pro-drilling arguments from his own party may be hindering the chances of bipartisan support for increasing oil and gas production on ...
Tags: Drilling Rhetoric Hinders, Chemicals, Cramer
Reviews of offshore oil and gas exploration plans and approval of drilling permits may be delayed by mandatory across-the-board budget cuts known as a "sequester," US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Tommy Beaudreau said ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil, gas
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 ...
Shanghai-based Chinese steel giant Baosteel has announced that, with the delivery of a final batch of welded pipe, it has completed its total supply of 87,000 mt of line pipe to China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) for the 3-1 gas area ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
BP can bid in next week's Central Gulf of Mexico offshore lease sale, but will be disqualified if, after a 90-day review, the company remains under the suspension that was imposed on federal contracts after its guilty plea to Macondo oil ...
Tags: BP, Macondo well, Ocean Energy
ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, has signed a service contract valued at $260 million with A/S Norske Shell. The contract, for a period of 9 years, requires ABB to provide integrated service and support solutions ...
Tags: ABB, Major Oil Company, Electrical
China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition (cippe), a regular gathering in petroleum and petrochemical industry and a high-quality exhibition which gets the authentication from UFI in Mainland China, ...
Tags: Textile, Cippe2013, Petroleum&Petrochemical
China's incoming president, Xi Jinping, will likely follow the course set by his predecessor in dealing with Russia, according to a former senior vice president at China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Victor Gao. Xi is expected to be ...
Tags: gas, Offshore Oil, gas industry
What is corrosion? It is the gradual degradation of material, normally metals, by chemical reaction with its environment. Rusting is the formation of iron oxides and is a common example of electrochemical corrosion. Corrosion can also occur ...
Tags: material, normally metals, chemical reaction
China's oil and gas companies could lift their total overseas equity production to 3 million b/d by 2015, the executive director of the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. "Chinese national oil companies are present everywhere in ...
Tags: oil, gas, overseas equity