Overview Ultrapetrol serves the shipping markets for grain, vegetable oils, minerals, crude oil, petroleum and refined petroleum products, as well as the offshore oil platform supply market. It operates three segments: a river...
There are seven crude oil, natural gas and condensate producing ventures in Oman other than PDO. Together they are producing 265,500 b/d of crude oil, condensates, LPG, and over 375 MCF/d of gas....
On Jan. 22, 2007, BP signed with the MOG an EPSA for two onshore fields in central Oman with 30 TCF of tight gas. The EPSA covers Block-61, an area of 2,800 sq...
Petroleum Development Oman: PDO is owned 60% by the Omani government, 34% by Shell which is the technical manager, 4% by Total and 2% by Partex. The Shell-led foreign partners in PDO in...
KHE-102 well is an appraisal well which has tested the structural elevation, reservoir quality and reservoir fluids present in the Triassic Butmah and Kurrachine Dolomite Formations on the north flank of the field...
Once complete, MarkWest will operate approximately 2.3 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of processing capacity and nearly 300,000 Bbl/d of fractionation capacity serving the Northeast shales, including the Huron, Marcellus, and Utica....
Approximately 80% of Canada's oil sands can be produced using in-situ technology, which involves the injection of steam to enable bitumen to be extracted through drilling versus surface mining. The ExxonMobil -patented technology...
The market for pressure transmitters, a sensor used in the automated measurement of unit volume, has jumped in recent years, from $1.93 billion in 2006 to $2.4 billion in 2010. That growth looks...
From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 31, 1912: C.B. Baker, inspector for the General Land Office, returned from a trip to Gallup yesterday evening. He reports great activity in the Seven Lakes...
The Donnybrook Energy Bigstone Hz 15-32-60-22 W5M well (25% working interest to Pennant) encountered 2744 m of high quality Montney reservoir with strong gas shows and excellent penetration rates. The reservoir encountered is...
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) announced on January 19 that the company recently signed a handful of cooperation agreements with partners in Middle East and Africa on oil and gas, to deepen their...
The sultanate of Oman has seen its oil and condensate production rise again to over 900,000 b/d. This was the average for 2010 and 2009, up 7% from 2008, having fallen to 700,000...
Discoveries in each of the past 21 years have encouraged the government to embark on big projects. In 1991 alone, oil finds amounted to 343m barrels, which raised Oman's officially proven reserves to...
The search for oil in Oman began in 1925, soon after D'Arcy Exploration Co. won a two-year licence. Then the country was a British protectorate. The firm made geological surveys but failed to...
Construction a cure for crisis, Kazakh president tells nation Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced some grandiose new industrial projects in his annual address to the nation on January 27. These projects, he said,...
MANAVIGATOR-January 23, 2012-M&A Navigator: Deal pipeline - 23 January The following is a list of deals covered in detail by M&A Navigator this week: - CABOT CLOSES SALE OF SUPERMETALS UNIT TO GAM...
Shah Deniz project will not be affected by anti-Iran sanctions - WSJ British and European leaders have convinced lawmakers in the United States not to include the Shah Deniz project a consortium headed...
Rosneft grows oil reserves 60% more than production in 2011 Rosneft's proven hydrocarbon reserves, as audited by DeGolyer & MacNaughton per SEC life-of-field classification involving a valuation of profitable deposit development at year-end,...
The Petroleum Minister since March 2011, Eng. Ghorab took up this post from Mahmoud Latif Amer and was retained in Ghanzoury's government. Latif had become petroleum minister on Feb. 23 to replace long-serving...
DUBLIN -- Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/59529e/oil_gas_refinin) has announced the addition of the "Oil & Gas: Refining, Independent and Major Integrated Report" report to their offering. The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Oil...