With approval from the Canadian government granted on Friday, China National Offshore Oil Corp. has crossed the biggest hurdle to its $15.1 billion takeover bid for Nexen and the deal should close by the end of the year, analysts said in ...
Tags: Cnooc Nexen, LNG export facility, Oil
An oil field off the Nigerian coast with substantial reserves and potential risks has become the latest foreign prize scooped up as part of China Petrochemical Corp.'s African expansion campaign. The state owned oil gorilla better known ...
Tags: oil field, oil, China Petrochemical Corp, oil industry
MNA reported that the Iranian Offshore Oil Company has managed to boost output at oilfields to a great extent. Mr Mahmoud Zirakchianzadeh MD of IOOC said that output at the Siri and the Salman regions have been increased by 25% and 50% ...
Tags: offshore oilfields, oilfields, oil, oil wells
A major oil and gas company is complying with new federal safety regulations relating to communications with offshore oil platforms with assistance from Moore Industries-International. ENI Petroleum, an Italian multinational oil and gas ...
Tags: Oil Platform, Remote Offshore Oil Platform, oil and gas
Trade Arabia reported that Dubai's ship building unit Drydocks World has won a multi million contract from leading oil exploration and production company Premier Oil to build a subsea facility for Solan oil field located on the UK ...
Tags: Drydocks, oil exploration and production, oil and gas discovery
UK gas giant BG Group is still looking to develop a third production train at its Queensland Curtis LNG project in eastern Australia, although the timing of the expansion is uncertain, according to a senior company executive. Martin ...
Tags: third production train, proven and probable coalseam gas
Winter demand for natural gas in Shanghai is expected to rise by 50% year on year to nearly 30 million cubic meters/day (1.06 Bcf/day), Chinese state company PetroChina said Thursday. The company said the increase is due to rising gas ...
Tags: demand for natural gas, rising gas demand, seasonal consumption
Offshore oil drilling platforms are often referred to as “cities on the sea” with over 100 people living and working on the largest of them at any given time. With staggered shifts of two weeks on and two weeks off, and a steady ...
Tags: heliport lift, offshore oil platform, cities on the sea
Reuters reported that Iran will build millions of barrels of oil storage facilities in the Gulf over the next few months in response to international sanctions on its exports. Mr Mahmoud Zirakchian Zadeh MD of the Iranian Offshore Oil ...
Tags: Oil Storage, oil storage facilities, international sanctions
A senior Iranian energy official said that the country will increase its oil storage capacity in the Persian Gulf by 8.1 million barrels with the construction of new storage facilities. Mr Mahmoud Zirakchian Zadeh MD of Iranian Offshore ...
Tags: Oil Storage, construction of new storage facilities, Persian Gulf
Fixed asset investment in China's refining industry totaled Yuan 130 billion ($20.9 billion) from January to October, the National Development and Reform Commission said on its website Thursday. This was an 18.2% increase from the same ...
Tags: refining industry, China's refining industry, Refinery Sector Investment
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has forecasted that Hurricane Isaac will cause insurance losses between $700m-$2bn in the US. The calculation of losses includes wind and storm surge damage to onshore residential, commercial and ...
Tags: AIR Worldwide, catastrophe modeling, Hurricane Isaac, insurance loss
The victims could fill a novice bird-watcher's bucket list: blackpoll warbler, double-crested cormorant, American black duck, short-billed dowitcher, black-crowned night heron, magnolia warbler, budgerigar and green-winged teal. The ...
Tags: FAA, Bird-Airplane, victims
Valve market, according to analysts, the main trend in the coming period are: 1. With the development of oil fields and offshore oil fields to the mainland shift, and the power industry from less than the 300 thousand kilowatts of thermal ...
Tags: Industry Trends, Valve
April 2,2012--Portland,OR,02 April 2012:BlueSteel Services LLC,a reputed steel supplier,is offering ERW,DSAW and Spiral weld pipe pile that follow international quality standards and can be delivered directly to the client's job site.The ...