France's oil giant Total and international trading firms Trafigura and Vitol were among 21 companies handed crude oil term lifting contracts for 2016 by state oil firm Nigerian National Petroleum Corp, NNPC said Thursday. "NNPC issued ...
Tags: Crude Oil, oil trading
In midsummer 2015, the so-called South China Sea arbitration hearing that the Philippines had been clamoring for and brewing in the past two years finally started. Recently, the relevant arbitral tribunal held this so-called hearing in The ...
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The government of Neuquen, a southwestern province of Argentina, said Monday it has approved ExxonMobil's investment plan for developing shale resources in the Bajo el Choique and La Invernada blocks. The company will work with Gas y ...
Tags: shale, GyP, natural gas
The Jurassic shales of southern England's Weald basin could hold between 2.2 billion and 8.5 billion barrels of oil resource but no gas, the UK government said Friday in a new report. The Department of Energy and Climate Change also ...
Tags: Shale Oil, offshore production
Eastern Canada's Nova Scotia government is in favor of the proposed 1.1 million b/d Energy East crude oil pipeline terminating at a deep water port in the province, rather than in neighboring New Brunswick on the Atlantic coast, the ...
Tags: Nova Scotia, Oil Pipeline
In the recently published study, the market research institute Ceresana comprehensively analyzes and describes the development of the global market for styrene. Styrene is an important product in the petrochemical industry and used to ...
Global demand for gasoline will remain flat from 2014-2040, but global demand for diesel should grow by about 75% over the period to meet the needs of trucks and other commercial transportation, ExxonMobil said Thursday in its annual ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, gasoline
Salamander Energy provides an update on drilling, development and production operations at the Bualuang oil field in the B8/38 concession, offshore Gulf of Thailand. Salamander has a 100% interest in, and is operator of, the Bualuang field. ...
Tags: Salamander, energy, Bualuang oil field, drilling
Statoil ASA has together with its partners Eni Norge AS and Petoro AS made an oil and gas discovery in the Skavl prospect in PL532, close to Johan Castberg in the Barents Sea. Well 7220/7-2 S, drilled by the rig West Hercules, has proven ...
Tags: Oil and Gas News, New Oil and Gas Discovery, Johan Castberg
The international energy agency predicts that in 2016 the United States will become the largest oil producer before Russia and Saudi Arabia. The United States will basically realize energy self-sufficient and reduce its dependence on OPEC ...
Tags: Oil Producer, Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
An international team of scientists has created a tool to precisely pinpoint where petroleum and gas reserves have accumulated beneath the earth. One of the team members is a Chinese geologist from the University of California-Davis. "The ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The US saw its biggest ever yearly rise in oil production last year as its booming shale oil industry continues to transform the global oil market, BP said Wednesday. At the same time, global proven oil reserves continue to grow and are ...
A long-standing dispute over the problems surrounding Kenya's sole refinery in Mombasa is escalating, triggering fears the country could lose clout as an investment magnet for neighboring countries. A financial crisis at the aging plant ...
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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 ...
Tags: Yukos Demise, Giant Oil Producer
Not many Colombians have heard about a pump manufacturer with headquater in Denmark. This is a fact, which will be changed, after Grundfos April 9 inaugurated a company in the capital Bogota. With the new company Grundfos wants to be a ...
Tags: Grundfos Company, Machinery