Tag: oil and gas

Petronas, together with Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Mocambique (ENH), has been awarded the exploration and production contract for the offshore Zambezi Delta Block by the government of Mozambique.

El Paso Energy Partners LP has entered into an agreement with Pioneer Natural Resources Co. and Mariner Energy Inc. to construct, instal, own and operate a new production hub platform and associated facilities for Falcon field on East Breaks Blocks 579, 580, and 623 in the Gulf of Mexico.

The US Senate has voted to reshape US energy policy for the first time in more than a decade, approving USD 14 billion in tax incentives to create or save power, but rejecting oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge.

UK oil and gas company BG Group Plc has said that the success of its Sienna-2 appraisal well offshore the Nile Delta in Egypt will allow for a second liquified natural gas (LNG) train.

RTI International Metals Inc. (Niles, Ohio, USA) has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, RTI Energy Systems, has been selected to produce production riser equipment in connection with Unocal's West Seno Project off the coast of Indonesia.

Eriks has again extended its range of ANSI valves with the Flowseal high-performance (HP) butterfly valve of Crane Process Flow Technologies. Among the materials used are stainless steel, Alloy 20, Monel and Hastelloy C.

BP has selected Honeywell's Industry Solutions business, along with Mustang Automation and Control, as the control system vendor and integration supplier for the planned development of the BP Deepwater Development fields in the Gulf of Mexico.

Rolls-Royce plc has gained an order worth over USD 50 million for Azerbaijan's oil and gas sector.

The state-run Kuwait Petroleum Corp. has called on more international companies to bid for stakes in its upstream oil development project, which will open the lucrative oil sector for foreign companies for the first time in three decades.

Sudan and Slavneft have signed a USD 200 million oil and gas exploration deal, the first such contract with a Russian firm.