France-based steel pipe manufacturer Vallourec has announced that Vallourec Tubos do Brasil, Vallourec's wholly-owned Brazilian subsidiary, will supply premium pipes for the offshore Xerelete field in Brazil, of which French multinational ...
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Amid growing demand for natural gas, China's top economic planner has called for an increase in imports and stronger cooperation with Central Asian countries to ensure a stable supply in the coming winter. The National Development and ...
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Rosneft and ExxonMobil selected CB&I UK and Foster Wheeler Energy as contractors for initial phase front end engineering and design (FEED) for a proposed Russian Far East liquefied natural gas project. Rosneft and ExxonMobil intend to ...
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China's investment in exploration of oil and gas resources is expected to stand at 80 billion yuan (13.07 billion U.S. dollars) in 2013, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources. Such investment has risen steadily in China over the ...
China's government pledged to cut overall coal use in eastern parts of the country and said it would reduce dependency on the fuel nationwide, as leaders struggle to respond to rising public concern over choking levels of pollution. The ...
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KrisEnergy, a Southeast Asia-focused oil and gas company, said Thursday that its Tayum-1 exploration well in the Kutai production sharing contract offshore Kalimantan, Indonesia, has encountered gas. A preliminary well log evaluation ...
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US oil services company Schlumberger on Wednesday announced the opening of a reservoir laboratory in China's central Sichuan province to help support expanding activity in unconventional shale development. The company's new facility in ...
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The leaders of the world's leading gas exporting nations are due to meet in Moscow Monday for the second summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum to discuss the future of the gas market amid uncertainties over the supply and demand ...
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Thailand's PTT LNG, a subsidiary of state-owned oil and gas company PTT, is going ahead with plans to double capacity of its existing 5 million mt/year LNG import terminal despite severe under-utilization of the facility. "The government ...
State-owned China National Petroleum Corp said Wednesday it has started building the country's first dedicated shale gas pipeline in central Sichuan province. The pipeline will stretch 92.8 kilometers (58 miles), linking gas production ...
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One of the least expensive, most reliable distributed generation (DG) technologies available today, Navigant Research says diesel gensets have expanding opportunities ($41.2 billion by 2018 globally) among homeowners and commercial ...
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Chinese oil and gas producers show rising interest in oil exploration and development in the arctic regions nowadays. An insider with China Petroleum Corp. (Sinopec Group), one of the top two oil and gas producers in the Chinese mainland, ...
Saudi Aramco boosted its crude production to a record 9.506 million b/d in 2012, excluding blended natural gas liquids, up 5% from 9.068 million b/d in 2011, the company said in its latest annual report. "During 2012 at Saudi Aramco, we ...
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The newly appointed managing director of Kuwait's Petrochemical Industry Company), which is at the center of a political crisis over a $2.2 billion compensation payment to Dow Chemical, has said that implementation of a number of planned ...
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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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