Mining, Oil & Gas Where would we be without the benefits that mining, oil and gas have provided us. This is an important sector, providing energy to keep our society going.
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As pressure from governments grows for the oil sands to clean up its act, some energy producers are exploring carbon capture storage - a process that sequesters CO-2 deep below the ground. But is the enormous cost, which would require massive government support and do little to address other sources of emissions, too much to pay?
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Monday 15 June, 2009 04:11 PM |
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On a late-spring day beneath a warm prairie sun, some 6,000 construction workers and 30 cranes are at work on a $12-billion expansion to Royal Dutch Shell PLC's upgrader to boost its capacity for processing oil sands bitumen. |
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Sunday 14 June, 2009 02:39 PM |
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SANTOS is close to signing the first offtake deal for its $8 billion Gladstone liquefied natural gas project as regional gas export customers try to lock in buyers.
Discussions with an Asian customer were at an advanced stage, Santos said yesterday.
"While there is no guarantee that an agreement will be concluded, the discussions are progressing well and there is the prospect that a final agreement will be reached in the near future," Santos said. |
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Friday 5 June, 2009 09:49 AM |
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Iran is pushing ahead with plans to pump and export more gas, and could award contracts to build a cross-border pipeline to Pakistan and develop another phase of its biggest offshore gasfield in coming weeks.
Tehran could award the main construction contract for a 2,100km gas pipeline to supply Iranian gas to Pakistan “maybe within a month”, Seyed Mehdi Hosseini, the adviser to the managing director of Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction, said on the sidelines of a energy conference in Abu Dhabi. |
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Tuesday 2 June, 2009 01:10 PM |
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BJ Services announced that its process and pipeline services group has successfully completed a major precommissioning operation offshore Nigeria for Technip France on behalf of Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited, an affiliate of Chevron Corporation. |
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Sunday 31 May, 2009 04:30 PM |
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MINING gold on a volcanic tropical island poses unique challenges and unique opportunities. Even the opportunities pose challenges.
Lihir Gold’s mine on Lihir Island, on the northern side of Papua New Guinea’s New Ireland archipelago, has been harnessing energy from superheated seawater since 2006 when a 6 MW geothermal plant was commissioned. |
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Thursday 21 May, 2009 05:37 PM |
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Technip , a France-based operator of gas and oil engineering, technologies and projects, has received two lump sum contracts from Bluewater Industries (Bluewater) for the Telemark and Clipper Corridor field developments in the Gulf of Mexico. ATP Oil & Gas Corporation is 100% owner and operator of the Telemark field, and 55% owner and operator of the Clipper Corridor field. Bluewater is managing the two projects |
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Tuesday 12 May, 2009 04:49 PM |
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Russia's largest oil producer , is considering a plan to build a large petrochemical refinery on the country's Pacific coast that would be fed by crude from East Siberia, the company said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday 12 May, 2009 02:04 PM |
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F the rhetoric of West Australian Premier Colin Barnett holds true, Chevron's $50 billion Gorgon LNG export project will save, single-handedly, the resource-dependent state from one of its periodic lulls.
"It really has this huge multiplier effect and is a huge economic stimulus project in its own right," Barnett says.
Then there's Woodside with its $12 billion Pluto project and proposed Kimberley Browse development. Easterners, stop sniggering at those State of Excitement number plates. |
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Thursday 7 May, 2009 02:34 PM |
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Western Australia's Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has recommended approval of Chevron's proposed expansion of its massive Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on Barrow Island. |
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Thursday 30 April, 2009 06:50 PM |
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Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company Limited ( Samref) has awarded a US $400 million (SAR 1.5 billion) contract to Australia’s Worley Parsons for a clean fuels project at its Yanbu refinery. |
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Sunday 26 April, 2009 01:03 PM |
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EXPENDITURE by shareholders on the pre-Final Investment Decision works at the site of the $8.5bn Brass LNG project at Brass, Bayelsa State, could rise from $600m to $1bn (N145bn) by year end. |
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Thursday 23 April, 2009 10:54 AM |
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The Alaska Gas Pipeline LLC (“Denali”) has announced that it has awarded an engineering contract for the Gas Mainline Project to Bechtel , a world class engineering firm. The mainline project includes the pipeline and
associated compressor stations from Alaska's North Slope to Alberta, Canada. |
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Saturday 4 April, 2009 04:19 AM |
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BHP Billiton has awarded Stress Subsea a contract for the water injection design engineering for the Shenzi field development project in the Gulf of Mexico. The award includes four basic work scopes covering subsea hardware, umbilicals, risers, and flowline systems (SURF).
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Thursday 2 April, 2009 09:07 AM |
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SANTOS'S proposed $7.7 billion project to convert coal seam gas to liquefied natural gas in Queensland has taken a step forward with the submission of its draft environmental impact statement. |
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Wednesday 1 April, 2009 03:30 PM |
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Late in 2008, Fort Hills Energy L.P. (with Petro-Canada as 60% owner and operator) defers the final investment decision on the mining portion of its Fort Hills oil sands project until costs can be reduced, and commodity prices and financial markets strengthen. Also at this time, the Sturgeon Upgrader portion of the project is put on hold; a decision on whether to proceed will be made at a later date. |
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Tuesday 24 March, 2009 03:32 PM |
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The design of a Rio Tinto coal mine in Clermont that has become the first in Australia to use paste thickening technology, has recently been completed by global engineering firm, Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), using employees strictly from Australia and Asia only. |
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Tuesday 24 March, 2009 09:30 AM |
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Apache Corp. , operator of a A$900 million ($585 million) natural gas venture in Western Australia, awarded Clough Ltd. a contract for the engineering of the onshore processing plant after resuming work on the project. |
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Thursday 5 March, 2009 08:15 AM |
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Speaking to Foreign oil companies' representatives, the Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) Shukri Ghanem stressed that Libya was determined to carry out a policy of Libyanization of engineering projects.
"We are looking for long term gains not short term ones. We are concerned that most of the engineering work is done outside the country," Ghanem told the large number of oil companies' representatives who gathered for the meeting |
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Monday 2 March, 2009 03:11 PM |
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Low-impact oil and gas drilling is the goal of a new collaborative research program announced today by the Houston Advanced Research Center and the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University.
The research targets advanced technologies that can be used to open up environmentally sensitive areas currently off limits to drilling and production.
New systems will be designed to be compatible with environmentally sensitive or off-limits areas such as federal lands in the Western United States, the wetlands of the Gulf Coast, and the Alaskan North Slope.
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Tuesday 17 February, 2009 06:32 AM |
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Iraq has awarded Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contracts to international companies to build four major new refineries with a combined total capacity of 750,000 bpd, Iraqi oil sources said recently.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 07:05 PM |
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