The Sichuan Basin in China is one of the best places to find natural gas and with this in mind, the Royal Dutch Shell PLC have announced that they will be jointly developing and producing this natural gas along with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). CNPC is the largest oil and gas company in China [...]
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Recently, Tharwa, the oil and gas company have discovered oil in Egypt in the Eastern Desert in the West Esh El Mallah area. Currently the production level is expected to be 1300 barrels a day. This comes as oil prices rise worldwide, and with the recession starting to subside. The oil discovery poses many new [...]
British Airways are busy building an energy plant that hopes to produce jet fuel out of wastage and this is expected to create up to 1200 airline jobs within the first 2 years. BA says that the plant, to be located in east London, will produce two percent of the amount of fuel needed to [...]
With the world looking for ways to help the environmental movements that revolve around global warming, the challenge is always to get the majority of the population to get on board. Not only this, but big business also needs to play a huge part otherwise those individuals that do get involved will not really make [...]
Oxane, a company that produces proppants for oil and gas companies is opening a new manufacturing plant in Van Buren which could mean more than 300 oil and gas service jobs in the area. The company’s decision to open a new plant is due to the fact that they have developed a new proppant in [...]
Canada based Husky Energy, the 3rd largest oil company in the country, is planning to expand its portfolios by placing more than 26 percent into two projects, namely the natural gas finds off the coast of China and the massive Oil Sands project. These two projects have been the focus of their attention for the [...]
The Karoo Basin in South Africa is one of the undiscovered shale gas reserves, and to this end a team of gas exploration experts want to uncover this potential jackpot. The three companies that are collaborating in this venture are Sasol LTD, the South African based oil and gas company, Statoil ASA, the largest gas [...]
After a slump in the oil prices and the slowing down of oil production, it is good to see that Suncor is restarting its development of the Firebag 3 Oil Sands Project. Located just north of Fort McMurray, this oil sands prospect is expected to produce about 68 thousand barrels of oil per day by [...]
The sixteenth African Oil Week held in Cape Town saw delegates from various independent oil producers positive about the future of the oil industry in Africa. It was emphasized that African was at the forefront of the oil industry with many unexplored potential oil sites. There are currently 550 oil firms operating in Africa, and [...]
