Qatar >> 9/26/2009 - Qatargas has started production from the Laffan Refinery, the first condensate refinery in Qatar. The refinery’s production reached commercial quantities and specifications on 23 September for all pro... |
South Africa >> 9/21/2009 - PetroSA, South Africa’s National Oil Company (NOC) announces that due to the statutory planned maintenance shutdown of its GTL Refinery and offshore platform operations, the NOC will not able to produ... |
Egypt >> 8/5/2009 - Axial Vector Energy Corporation ("AVEC") announced that its PETRO AVEC JV partner, Petrosonics LLC, was recently awarded a patent in Egypt (Egyptian Patent Application No. PCT/NA/122/2006), protecting... |
Saudi Arabia >> 8/5/2009 - KBR has been awarded a contract by ConocoPhillips and the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) to provide detailed engineering and procurement services for the utilities package and the interconne... |
Bahrain >> 8/3/2009 - Cape, the international provider of essential support services to the energy and natural resources sectors, has been awarded a contract worth $10 million over four years by the Government owned Bahrai... |
Iraq >> 7/19/2009 - Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani inaugurated the first dispatch of oil from Khurmala through 40 kilometers of pipeline to a refinery in Erbil. ... |
Saudi Arabia >> 6/30/2009 - Saudi Aramco and ConocoPhillips announced the re-launch of the bidding process for the construction of the planned 400,000 barrel-per-day export refinery at the Yanbu’ Industrial City, in the Kingdom ... |
Ukraine >> 2/19/2009 - The Ukrainian based holding company Ukrtatnafta, has awarded Axens a contract for upgrading the gasoline pool at the Kremenchug refinery, which is the largest throughput capacity refinery in the Ukrai... |
Qatar >> 1/26/2009 - Qatargas announced that the Laffan Refinery project has completed 20 million man-hours without a Lost Time Incident (LTI). GS-Daewoo of Korea is the prime contractor consortium for the project that be... |
Chad >> 10/30/2008 - On October 26, the refinery jointly invested by CNPC and Chadian government laid foundation in Chad's capital N'Djamena. Chadian President Idriss Deby and Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas attended ... |
Russia >> 9/4/2008 - The main stage of Volgograd-Antiterror-2008 International Exercises was held at the premises of LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka. At the river port of the refinery, an armed hijacking of an oil tanker... |
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Russia >> 12/8/2007 - Vagit Alekperov, President of OAO LUKOIL, and Nikolai Maksyuta, Head of Volgograd region, participated in the ceremony held in Volgograd today to mark the commissioning of an isomerization unit at OO... |
Brazil >> 11/16/2007 - Petrobras has awarded Axens process licenses for its new, world scale Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex (COMPERJ) located in Itaborai, Brazil. COMPERJ will be the largest industrial undertaking in ... |
Brazil >> 9/9/2007 - WorleyParsons announces that it has been selected by Petrobras to perform integration and Project Management services, execute front-end engineering design for utilities and offsites, and provide othe... |
Brazil >> 9/4/2007 - Skanska has been contracted to build two new refinery units at the Presidente Bernardes Refinery (RPBC), in Cubatao, 60 km from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The contract total value amounts to USD 84 M, of whic... |
Tunisia >> 12/19/2006 - Lundin Petroleum AB and Atlantis Holding Norway AS are pleased to announce that gross oil production from the Oudna field offshore Tunisia is now in excess of 20,000 bopd following the successful comm... |
Iran >> 10/22/2006 - Some $16 billion is required to make a significant jump in the nation’s oil refining sector, MNA reported on Saturday. The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has proposed twelve plans for constructio... |
Saudi Arabia >> 8/23/2006 - The demand for gas in the Arab region has grown faster than oil demand over the past decade, to peak at 3.34 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2005, the Gulf News reported. Citing a study b... |
Saudi Arabia >> 5/24/2006 - Saudi Aramco and ConocoPhillips Wednesday signed a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to conduct a detailed evaluation for the proposed development of a 400,000 barrel-per-day, full-conve... |
Saudi Arabia >> 3/19/2006 - Representatives of Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical today broke ground on the PETRORabigh project and signed the final project financing documents to develop a large, integrated refining and petroch... |