The global law firm of Thompson & Knight has assisted Sonangol, the state-owned oil company of Angola, in a transaction for one of the world’s largest integrated natural gas projects. Under terms of the deal, Sonangol’s Sonagas unit and Chevron Corp., together with their European partners Total SA, BP PLC, and Eni SpA, have agreed [...]
Energy Solutions International, Inc., a world-leading supplier of software solutions that optimize operational and commercial performance of oil and gas pipelines, announced that PEMEX Gas y Petroquimica Basica (PGPB) selected PipelineManager® software for comprehensive management of its 12,000 kilometers of natural gas, liquid petroleum gas and petrochemical pipelines. PGPB is one of four divisions of [...]
A top government official shrugged off concerns about Russia’s stagnating oil output, saying several new fields are expected to come on stream by the end of the year.
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin — chairman of state-owned oil major Rosneft — told a briefing that he was “not worried” about the decline in Russia’s oil output [...]
The West African nation of Niger signed a $5 billion deal with China’s state-owned oil company to tap the impoverished country’s oil reserves within three and a half years.
China National Petroleum Corp. pledged to invest in exploration, drilling, pipelines and a refinery.
Niger hopes to start extracting oil from the area before the end of 2011. [...]
Shares in UK natural gas producer BG Group Plc jumped nearly 6 percent as investors started betting on the potential size of the Carioca oil discovery in Brazil after the chief of the country’s petroleum agency revealed the site could be holding around 33 billion barrels of oil equivalent, making it one of the world’s [...]
Asia faces the threat of higher inflation, slower growth and tougher times for exporters after oil prices hit new highs and the dollar plunged last week.
Farmers, miners and oil companies could benefit from high commodity prices. But most of Asia is dependent on imported energy and raw materials, and even some oil-exporting countries such as [...]
India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. said it will notify four oil and gas discoveries in a month to the Directorate-General of Hydrocarbons.
The decision came at an ONGC board meeting Monday, an ONGC statement said Tuesday.
The board also cleared three major investments for growth-oriented projects, the statement said, adding these are the reconfiguration of [...]
Oil and gas futures prices retreated Tuesday on expectations that a government inventory report today will again show that crude and gasoline stocks rose last week.
The weekly report by the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration has become critical for analysts and traders during a spring and early summer that have seen an unusually high number [...]
Oil prices were steady in Asia Wednesday as traders awaited the release of a U.S. government inventory report expected to show increases in supplies of crude, gasoline and distillates.
Light, sweet crude for August delivery lost 6 cents to $67.71 a barrel in Asian electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, midmorning in Singapore. [...]
BP Plc and Rio Tinto Plc formed a joint venture, Hydrogen Energy, to develop technology for producing power from coal, oil and natural gas without emitting the gases blamed for global warming.
Rio will pay $32 million to BP to form the equally owned venture, which includes two planned BP hydrogen-fuel projects in Scotland and California [...]
