Tag: BHP Billiton

In what is expected to be the largest combined E&P drilling programme in the Gippsland basin in the Bass Strait off Victoria since the 1980s, Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd and its joint venture partner BHP Billiton Ltd are preparing to locate and extract oil and natural gas from smaller fields that show potential and that are near existing infrastructure in the mature basin.

BHP Billiton has filed applications to construct and operate Cabrillo Port, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) located off the coast of Southern California, and a pipeline connecting this deepwater port to the existing natural gas transportation and distribution infrastructure onshore.

BHP Billiton, Australia, intends to file applications with the United States Coast Guard/Maritime Administration (MARAD) and the California State Lands Commission to construct and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification facility.

The chief executive of Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton has resigned over "irreconcilable differences" with the company's board, BHP Billiton has announced.

Woodside has learnt through diplomatic channels that its North West Shelf joint venture has won the contract to supply a new LNG receiving terminal in China's Guangdong province.

After 87 years in steel making, BHP Billiton, Australia's largest industrial company, is leaving the industry to concentrate on mining, energy and minerals processing.

CSO Aker Engineering Inc., a US entity of the Teechnip-Coflexip Group has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by BHP Billiton for its Angostura Development Project offshore Trinidad.

BHP Billiton has announced approval for the development of the Zamzama gas field in southern Pakistan.

Algerian state-run oil and gas firm Sonatrach has granted a consortium of Italian oilfield equipment maker Saipem and French construction firm a USD 257 million oilfield development project.

Alcoa Inc. and BHP Billiton have completed the merger of Alcoa's metals distribution business, Reynolds Aluminum Supply Company (RASCO) and BHP Billiton Group's North American metals distribution business (Vincent Metal Goods in the USA and Atlas Ideal Metals in Canada).