:: Investigating lifeboat maintenance on Veslefrikk
Posted: 29 July 2005
Two lifeboats on Statoil’s Veslefrikk platforms are being sent ashore for repair, while an inquiry has been launched into the maintenance programme for all these craft on the North Sea field.

:: Qatargas awards $360 million gas facility contract
Posted: 29 July 2005
Qatargas, a majority-owned company of Qatar Petroleum has awarded Al Jaber Energy Services and Washington Group International a $360 million (Dh1.32 billion) contract to provide design, engineering, procurement, and construction services for its new sulphur-processing facility in Qatar.

:: Ensuring prudent use of natural resources in the Gulf
Posted: 28 July 2005
Zamil Industrial Investment Company (ZIIC)has formed Energy Central Company (ECCO), a Bahrain-based district energy company that will provide metered energy, central refrigeration and other environmental services for large-scale infrastructure developments in the Gulf region.

:: ScottishPower sells gas project for £96 million ($166.5 million)
Posted: 28 July 2005
ScottishPower has announced the sale of its UK underground natural storage to E.ON UK plc for £96 million ($166.5 million).

:: Saudi approves changes in environmental law
Posted: 28 July 2005
Saudi Arabia has approved a law amendment mandating mandates all companies executing industrial and commercial projects to install surveillance equipment to monitor pollution.

:: Petrofac Secures New Gas Plant Contract In Oman
Posted: 27 July 2005
International oil services company Petrofac has secured a contract with the Sultanate of Oman’s Ministry of Oil & Gas (MOG) to build a new gas plant in the Kauther field in north Oman

:: Pipeline And Offshore Arabia Sign Up As Middle East Money & Ships Official Media Partners
Posted: 27 July 2005
Pipeline Magazine, the Pan Arab world’s foremost monthly publication for the oil and gas sectors and Offshore Arabia, the English language publication jointly produced by Dubai’s Reflex Publishing and the Regional Clean Seas Organisation (RECSO),

:: Seventh deepwater discovery off Angola
Posted: 27 July 2005
More oil has been found in block 31 in ultra-deepwater part of the Angolan continental shelf.

:: Arabian Oil to sign Egypt deal
Posted: 26 July 2005
Japan 's largest oil producer Arabian Oil is to sign an accord with Egypt to start extracting crude oil in 2007 as part of a $270 million investment in the Middle East , said a report.

:: Aker Kvaerner wins world-scale polyolefins project in Saudi Arabia
Posted: 26 July 2005
Japan 's largest oil producer Arabian Oil is to sign an accord with Egypt to start extracting crude oil in 2007 as part of a $270 million investment in the Middle East , said a report.

:: Sabic awards EPC contract to Aker Kvaerner and SINOPEC
Posted: 25 July 2005
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has signed a Letter of Intent with Aker Kvaerner and China Petrochemical Corporation (SINOPEC) Joint Venture for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of its world-scale Polyolefins complex, in Yanbu , Saudi Arabia.

:: Saudi Forges Strong Bonds with China
Posted: 25 July 2005
Whirlwind schedule swept Saudi Aramco president and chief executive officer Abdallah S. Jum'ah through the Chinese capital last week, after the July 8 inauguration of Aramco Overseas Co.'s (AOC) Fujian province oil/petro-chemicals joint venture with Fujian Petrochemical Co. Ltd. and ExxonMobil China Petrochemical Co. Ltd.

:: Saudi awarded Ethylene project to Germany and South Korea
Posted: 22 July 2005
Tasnee Petrochemicals Company (Tasnee), Sahara Petrochemicals Company ( Sahara ) and the Saudi International Petrochemical Company (SIPCHEM),

:: Tischuk Expands Into Chinese Market With Major Deal
Posted: 22 July 2005
Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited, has started production of the $3.5 billion Kizomba B project, designed to develop 1 billion barrels of oil from the Kissanje and Dikanza fields in approximately 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) of water more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) off the coast of Angola.

:: Oil Major notch up 22 percent profits rise with UK and international success
Posted: 22 July 2005
Pre-tax profits at oil and gas services company, PSL Energy Services Ltd, have increased by 22 per cent to £1.7 million, while turnover has risen by 40 per cent to £40 million.

:: UAE urged to switch to gas vehicles
Posted: 21 July 2005
The United Arab Emirates wants to see natural gas account for 20 per cent of total traffic fuel consumption by 2012, according to Majid Al-Mansouri, Secretary General of the Emirates’ Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency.

:: ExxonMobil’s Angola Oil Production to Exceed 550,000 Barrels a Day
Posted: 21 July 2005
Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited, has started production of the $3.5 billion Kizomba B project, designed to develop 1 billion barrels of oil from the Kissanje and Dikanza fields in approximately 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) of water more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) off the coast of Angola.

:: Early start for Kizomba B
Posted: 21 July 2005
The Kizomba B development in block 15 off Angola , where Statoil has a 13.33 per cent interest, recently came on stream roughly five months ahead of schedule.

:: New Pollution Response Center Established in the Gulf Region
Posted: 19 July 2005
HE Abdulla Nasser Al-Suwaidi, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Exploration and Production Director of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) met Mr. Randall Blank, President and Chief Executive Officer of SEACOR Environmental Services (SES)

:: Sabic Awards Contract To Toyo Engineering Corporation (TEC)
Posted: 19 July 2005
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has signed, on Thursday July 14, 2005, a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the Japanese Toyo Engineering Corporation for the design, supply and construction of an Ethylene Glycol (EG) Plant at the YANSAB affiliate.  The plant will have capacity of 700,000 mt/y.

:: Occidental to Develop Major Oman Oil Field
Posted: 18 July 2005
Occidental Petroleum reports that a Royal Decree has been issued by the Sultanate of Oman approving the contract for the development of the Mukhaizna oil field, one of the largest oilfields in Oman