China's independent teapot refiners are showing little interest in participating in Russian M100 tenders that are set to be issued in late September or early October, market sources said Thursday. Only two 40,000 mt cargoes of Russian ...
Tags: Teapot Refineries, Refineries
Nigerian Petroleum Development Co., the upstream arm of state oil company NNPC, Monday announced a $5.2 billion, four-year investment plan aimed at raising oil production to 300,000 b/d mainly from assets acquired from foreign oil companies ...
Tags: Oil Output, Metallurgy
The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee and Rovnag Abdullayev, President of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR). The meeting ...
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) along with the State Committee on Standardization, Metrology and Patents of Azerbaijan, will be developing new national standards for the upcoming oil-gas refining and petrochemical production ...
Tags: Petrochem Complex, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has announced plans to start construction of a new petrochemical processing complex at the industrial complex of Sangachal Terminal in south Baku region of the country. SOCAR president Rovnag ...
A new shipbuilding yard that is jointly developed by Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and Azerbaijan Investment Company (AIC) was officially opened this morning by President of ...
Tags: Transportation, shipbuilding
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 ...
Tags: Yukos Demise, Giant Oil Producer
Venezuela and China have agreed on the terms of a previously announced $4 billion financing deal to increase the output of their Sinovensa joint venture in Venezuela's Orinoco oil belt, the South American country's oil minister said late ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to media report, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) accounted that SOCAR would like to strengthen the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey to a strategic partnership level with an investment volume worth US$17 ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Recent fiscal changes in Venezuela could help state oil company PDVSA significantly cut its $16.4 billion debt to service providers this year, according to some economists and analysts. The changes, mainly to Venezuela's complicated ...
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Petkim,the Turkish petrochemical producer,is pursuing a project,which would boost the purified terephthalic acid(PTA)capacity of its Aliaga plant by 50 percent,a company statement said. The project would raise the capacity of the ...
President of the state oil company of the Azerbaijani Republic Mr Rovnag Abdullayev said that construction of the Star refinery in Turkey will start this year to launch it in 2016. The facility will cost about USD 6 billion,30%of which ...
In January to November of this year the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan produced 7,562,000 tonnes of oil. Sources in SOCAR said that 706,638 tonnes of oil were produced in January, 660,942 tonnes in February, 660,900 tonnes in March, ...
Tags: oil, Oil Company, Oil production
US intelligence officials say there is growing evidence Iran was behind recent cyber attacks that disabled computers across the Saudi oil industry. These attacks contributed to a warning last week from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that ...
Tags: Iran, cyber attacks, oil industry, disabled computers
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) reported its financial performance for the quarter/half year ended 30th September, 2012. Highlights of Half Year’s Performance Revenues (turnover) increased by 14% to Rs 188,191 crore ($ 35.6 ...
Tags: financial performance, RIL, heavy crude oil