Infrastructure will remain the watchword as US refiners look to further cement their role as world class product exporters in 2014, improving export capacity and rejigging refineries to increase their output of export-friendly diesel, ...
Tags: Refinery Output, gasoline
JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation (President: Shigeo Hirai, "JX Nippon") is pleased to announce that through Greenland Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. ("GreenPeX"), it was successful in the 2012/2013 Licensing Round in Greenland ...
Tags: JX Nippon, GreenPeX, Block 9, Block 14, Chevron, Shell
Rosneft began handling and installing oversize equipment at its Kuibyshev, Syzran, Achinsk, Komsomolsk and Angarsk refineries in early December, following the unique transport operations, one of which was noted in the Russian and European ...
Tags: gas oil hydrofining units, organic admixtures, vacuum gas oil
SIBUR and Gazprom Neft have signed an agreement for construction of a new gas processing plant (GPP) with an annual associated petroleum gas (APG) processing capacity of 900 million cubic metres on the basis of existing Yuzhno-Priobskaya ...
Tags: SIBUR, Gazprom Neft, new gas processing plant, associated petroleum gas
Dana Gas, the Middle East's leading regional private sector natural gas Company, announced today that it has received from the Egyptian Government authorities the payment of AED 194 million (US$ 53 million) from the current total ...
Tags: Dana Gas, AED, Egyptian Government, Investment
Further to the signing of a framework agreement in early May, Total is pleased to announce that QPI is now a shareholder of Total E&P Congo, holding 15% of its capital. "The conclusion of this agreement, which is an important milestone, ...
Tags: Total, QPI, Total E&P Congo, Qatar, Congolese petroleum industry
Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: GDP) today announced that its Huff 18-7H-1 (97% WI) well in Amite County, Mississippi was successfully fracture stimulated with 17 stages and had commenced flowback at expected fluid rates when the well ...
Tags: Goodrich Petroleum Corporation, Huff 18-7H-1 well, energy
China's apparent oil demand in November contracted 2.1% year on year to 40.88 million mt, or an average of 9.99 million b/d, according to Platts calculations Thursday based on final government data released Tuesday. This is the second ...
Tags: Oil Demand, Oil Product
Dry skin is common during the winter and can lead to flaking, itching, cracking and even bleeding. But you can prevent and treat dry skin, an expert says. "It's tempting, especially in cold weather, to take long, hot showers," Dr. Stephen ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Dry Winter Skin
Nation seeks to reduce use of fossil fuels in move to improve air quality China's dependency on natural gas imports will continue to increase as the country is trying to reduce its fossil fuel consumption and improve air quality, experts ...
Tags: Natural Gas
Look around at the number industrial uses for U.S. soy. The engine manufacturers that support the use of biodiesel in their engines. Or the farm-equipment companies that use soy-based body panels. Or the car companies that use soy-based ...
Tags: Innovative Industrial, Soy
Esrey Energy Ltd. ("Esrey" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:EEL) announces the Company has entered into a binding agreement to add to its holdings in Poland's Baltic Basin through the acquisition of additional interest in Saponis Investments ...
ExxonMobil and its employees and retirees in North Texas raised more than $1.7 million for charitable organizations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area through ExxonMobil’s annual Employees’ Favorite Charities Campaign. Employees ...
Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) has taken delivery of ENSCO 121, the second of four ultra-premium harsh environment jackup rigs in its ENSCO 120 Series. The rig is contracted to work in the North Sea beginning in the second quarter of 2014 at a day ...
Tags: drilling rigs, oil
Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX: PRE) (BVC: PREC) (BOVESPA: PREB) announced today the successful results of the first production tests in the CPE-6-1X exploration well and the CPE-6-H2 appraisal well, two new wells drilled during ...
Tags: exploration, oil