Tag: gas

Saudi gas projects hang in balance

Saudi gas projects hang delicately in the balance as the kingdom weighs difficult options to decide the fate of the USD 25 billion investment.

BP favourite for China gas deal

As one of the Chinese energy sector's longest and hottest competitions draws to a close, the contestant favoured to win a multi-billion dollar gas supply contract also stands to lose the most.

Saudi meets on fate of landmark gas deal

Saudi Arabia is set to decide the fate of the kingdom's multi-billion dollar initiative to open its huge gas sector to foreign investors.

South Pars 4 & 5 operational next year

Managing Director of Pars Oil and Gas Company Asadollah Salehiforuz has said that operations for development of the phases 4 and 5 of South Pars gas field will start as of next year.

Saudi gas deals to be restructured?

Talks between Saudi Arabia and its main foreign partners in three mega-gas ventures have "broken down in deadlock, leaving the future of the project in its current shape in doubt," the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES has reported.

Four firms vie for Chinese gas

General Electric Co, Alstom, Siemens AG and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have been shortlisted to supply power generating equipment for 10 gas-fired power plants across China.

South Pars enters final bidding stage

Iran will hold its last negotiating session with the two final bidders for phases 9 and 10 of the South Pars gas field in Tehran later this week.

Praxair and Air Liquide in Chinese venture

Industrial gas suppliers Air Liquide and Praxair plan to invest USD 100 million by 2005 in a venture supplying gas to a mammoth Shanghai chemical industry park.

Natural gas pipeline proposal

A Dominion and Piedmont Natural Gas partnership has applied to build a $497 million natural gas pipeline that will create critical new links between the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast regions and major gas supplies in Canada, Appalachia and Mid-Continent regions.

Russian gas project for TotalFinaElf

The Russian prime minister, Mikhail Kassianov, has announced that the French oil group TotalFinaElf is prepared to invest in Russia's Shtokman gas field as part of a shared-production agreement.