05.12.2012
- France may have banned the controversial hydro-fracking extraction technology, but the shale gas revolution in the United States is proving a boon for small, specialised French...
05.12.2012
- Ineos is to invest in the construction of a new ethane tank at its Rafnes site in Norway. The company has signed a Letter Of Intent with TGE Gas Engineering to build a new tank and...
04.12.2012
- Non-oil companies may have won most of the blocks offered in China's second shale gas auction, media and industry officials say, which may mean lucrative opportunities for service...
04.12.2012
- Germany's Wintershall has made what could be a major oil discovery in the Dutch North Sea, pending appraisal drilling in 2013, the company said on Tuesday. Wintershall, the...
30.11.2012
- Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil company, should sign a binding agreement next month to buy half of oil company TNK-BP from the AAR consortium of Soviet-born tycoons for $28 billion....
29.11.2012
- Hong Kong-listed Brightoil Petroleum Holdings is keen to buy more upstream gas assets to secure long-term growth and aims to sell more crude and chemicals to China, the world's...
29.11.2012
- In order to comply with the new consumption standards, Total is committed to improving its French refineries' efficiency and competitiveness. In this context, the Normandy refinery...
26.11.2012
- ConocoPhillips is to sell its 8.4% stake in Kazakh oil field Kashagan for about $5 billion to Oil and Natural Gas Corp, a state-run Indian group looking to boost production...