chemical, oils & gas, energy: 2008

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Schlumberger

Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services corporation.

read more here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumberger.

Baker Hughes

Baker Hughes is the world's third-largest oilfield services company behind Schlumberger & Halliburton, its main competitors.

read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Hughes.

EOG Resources, Inc. is one of the largest independent (non-integrated) oil and natural gas companies in the United States with proven reserves in the United States, Canada, offshore Trinidad and the United Kingdom North Sea.

see more at http://www.eogresources.com/operations/division_operations.html

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known simply as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins. It is the second largest private sector energy corporation in the world.

Forbes Global 2000 in 2007 ranked Shell the eighth largest company in the world. Also in 2007, Fortune magazine ranked Shell as the third-largest corporation in the world, behind Wal-Mart and ExxonMobil.

Royal Dutch/Shell is the world's second-largest private sector oil company by revenue, Europe's largest energy group and a major player in the petrochemical industry.

read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell & http://www.shell.com/home/content/aboutshell/who_we_are/our_history/history_of_pecten/history_of_the_pecten_23112006.html

BP

BP p.l.c., previously known as British Petroleum but now using only the initials, is the world's third largest global energy company.

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP
& http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=2010123&contentId=7027817

Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is the world's fifth largest non-government energy company. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, USA and active in more than 180 countries, parent of Chevron, Texaco and Caltex, it is engaged in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Corporation

OPEC

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a group of thirteen countries made up of Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Socialist People's Libyan Jamahiriya, Algeria, Nigeria, Angola, Venezuela and Ecuador.

OPEC's ability to control the price of oil has diminished somewhat since then, due to the subsequent discovery and development of large oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea, the opening up of Russia, and market modernization. OPEC nations still account for two-thirds of the world's oil reserves, and, as of March 2008, 35.6% of the world's oil production, affording them considerable control over the global market. The next largest group of producers, members of the OECD and the Post-Soviet states produced only 23.8% and 14.8%, respectively, of the world's total oil production. As early as 2003, OPEC members had little excess pumping capacity resulted their influence on crude oil prices begin to slip.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC

History of America Oils company

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil

Standard Oil was a predominant American integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company, was one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations.

The successor companies from Standard Oil's breakup form the core of today's US oil industry. (Several of these companies were considered among the Seven Sisters who dominated the industry worldwide for much of the twentieth century.) They include:
Standard Oil of New Jersey (SONJ) - or Esso (S.O.) - renamed Exxon, now part of ExxonMobil. Standard Trust companies Carter Oil, Imperial Oil (Canada), and Standard of Louisiana were kept as part of Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup.
Standard Oil of New York - or Socony, merged with Vacuum - renamed Mobil, now part of ExxonMobil.
Standard Oil of California - or Socal - renamed Chevron, became ChevronTexaco, but returned to Chevron.
Standard Oil of Indiana - or Stanolind, renamed Amoco (American Oil Co.) - now part of BP.
Standard's Atlantic and the independent company Richfield merged to form Atlantic Richfield or ARCO, now part of BP. Atlantic operations were spun off and bought by Sunoco.
Standard Oil of Kentucky - or Kyso was acquired by Standard Oil of California - currently Chevron.
Continental Oil Company - or Conoco now part of ConocoPhillips.
Standard Oil of Ohio - or Sohio now part of BP.
The Ohio Oil Company - more commonly referred to as "The Ohio", and marketed gasoline under the Marathon name. The company is now known as Marathon Oil Company, and was often a rival with the in-state Standard spinoff, Sohio.
Other Standard Oil spin-offs:
Standard Oil of Iowa - pre-1911 - became Standard Oil of California.
Standard Oil of Minnesota - pre-1911 - bought by Standard Oil of Indiana.
Standard Oil of Illinois - pre-1911 - bought by Standard Oil of Indiana.
Standard Oil of Kansas - refining only, eventually bought by Indiana Standard.
Standard Oil of Missouri - pre-1911 - dissolved.
Standard Oil of Louisiana - always owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil).
Standard Oil of Brazil - always owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil).
Other companies divested in the 1911 breakup:
Anglo-American Oil Co. - acquired by Jersey Standard in 1930, now Esso UK.
Buckeye Pipeline Co.
Borne-Scrymser Co. (chemicals)
Chesebrough Manufacturing (Vaseline)
Colonial Oil.
Crescent Pipeline Co.
Cumberland Pipe Line Co.
Eureka Pipe Line Co.
Galena-Signal Oil Co.
Indiana Pipe Line Co.
National Transit Co.
New York Transit Co.
Northern Pipe Line Co.
Prairie Oil & Gas.
Solar Refining.
Southern Pipe Line Co.
South Penn Oil Co. - eventually became Pennzoil, now part of Shell.
Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Line Co.
Swan and Finch.
Union Tank Lines.
Washington Oil Co.
Waters-Pierce.
Note: Standard Oil of Colorado was not a successor company; the name was used to capitalize on the Standard Oil brand in the 1930s. Standard Oil of Connecticut is a fuel oil marketer not related to the Rockefeller companies.

Supermajor Big Oil

The term supermajor illustrates the six largest, non state-owned energy companies, as seen in popular financial mediums around the world. Trading under various names around the world, they are considered to be: [1]
ExxonMobil (XOM)
Royal Dutch Shell (RDS)
BP (BP)
Chevron Corporation (CVX)
ConocoPhillips (COP)
Total S.A. (TOT)
The supermajors began to appear in the late 1990s, in response to a severe deflation in oil prices. Large petroleum companies began to merge, often in an effort to improve economies of scale, hedge against oil price volatility, and reduce large cash reserves through reinvestment.[2] Exxon and Mobil (1999), BP and Amoco (1998), Total and Petrofina (1999) and subsequently Elf Aquitaine (2000), Chevron and Texaco (2001), and Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Company (2002) all merged between 1998 and 2002. The result of this trend created some of the largest global corporations as defined by the Forbes Global 2000 ranking, and as of 2007 all are within the top 25.

ExxonMobil

The Exxon Mobil Corporation, or ExxonMobil, is an American oil and gas corporation. ExxonMobil is the world's largest company by revenue, at $404.5 billion for the fiscal year of 2007. It is also the largest publicly held corporation by market capitalization, at $501.17 billion on April 18, 2008.

It's oil and gas reserves it is 14th in the world with less than 1% of the total. The company ranks #1 in the world in net income, which was almost $40 billion last year.

read more : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Mobil

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Petrobras

Petrobras, short for Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., is a semi-public[5] Brazilian energy company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro.

Petrobras is the world's leader in development of advanced technology from deep-water and ultra-deep water oil production.

Petrobras controls significant oil and energy assets, as well as related business activities, outside Brazil in 18 nations in Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrobras

Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA)

Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) is the Venezuelan state-owned petroleum company, the world's fifth largest oil exporter.

Venezuela has 77.5 billion barrels (1.232×1010 m3) of conventional oil reserves according to PDVSA figures, the largest in the Western Hemisphere and making up approximately half the total. This puts Venezuela as fifth in the world in proven reserves of conventional oil. By also including an estimated 235 billion barrels (3.74×1010 m3) of tar-like extra heavy crude oil in the Orinoco Belt region, Venezuela claims to hold the largest hydrocarbon reserves in the world. Venezuela also has 150 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves.

read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%C3%B3leos_de_Venezuela_S.A.

National Iranian Oil Company شركت ملّی نفت ايران

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran, is an oil and natural gas producer and distributor headquartered in Tehran.

NIOC is considered the second largest oil firm of the world.

read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Iranian_Oil_Company

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC 中国石油) 中国石油天然气集团公司

The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) 中国石油天然气集团公司 (Zhongguo Shiyou Tianranqi Jituan Gongsi) is a state-owned fuel-producing corporation in the People's Republic of China. It is China's largest integrated oil and gas company.

CNPC has 30 international exploration and production projects with operations in Azerbaijan, Canada, Indonesia, Myanmar, Oman, Peru, Sudan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.

As of 2006, it was the second largest company in the world in terms of number of employees.

read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Petroleum_Corporation

Gazprom Газпром

Gazprom is the largest Russian company and the largest extractor of natural gas in the world.

Gazprom, with 119 billion barrels (1.89×1010 m3) of reserves, ranks behind only Saudi Arabia, with 263 billion barrels (4.18×1010 m3), and Iran, with 133 billion barrels (2.11×1010 m3), as the world's biggest owner of oil and oil equivalent in natural gas.

Gazprom was the sole gas supplier to at least Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Finland, Republic of Macedonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and Slovakia, and provided 97 percent of Bulgaria's gas, 89 percent of Hungary's, 86 percent of Poland's, nearly three-quarters of the Czech Republic's, 67 percent of Turkey's, 65 percent of Austria's, about 40 percent of Romania's, 36 percent of Germany's, 27 percent of Italy's, and 25 percent of France's.The European Union as a whole gets about 25 percent of its gas supplies from this company.

As measured by its market capitalization as of May 2008 (US$348 billion),[8] Gazprom is the world's third largest corporation following this measure.

read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazprom

Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco, the state-owned national oil company of Saudi Arabia, is the largest oil corporation in the world and the world's largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production [2]. Headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco also operates the world's largest single hydrocarbon network, the Master Gas System.

read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco

Thursday, April 3, 2008

onshore natural gas pipeline

Punj Lloyd bagged $500 million Sabah Sarawak Gas Pipeline project in Malaysia. The scope of work involves engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of an onshore natural gas pipeline from the proposed Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal in Kimanis, Sabah to Petronas Liquefied Natural Gas complex in Bintulu, Sarawak State and associated facilities.source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/stocks_in_news_home/Punj_Lloyd_bags_new_order_of_68_mn/articleshow/2913961.cms

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Tanjung Offshore

Tanjung Offshore Bhd has issued RM400 million Islamic medium term notes (IMTN) to finance its acquisition and construction of offshore support vessels, production platforms, lift barges and oil rigs.

The construction of two support vessels at RM80 million have been contracted to Muhibbah Engineering and Boustead Shipping Corporation.

Company would have 12 vessels in operation next year, comprising the existing fleet of seven working vessels and another five under construction.

source:

http://www.theedgedaily.com/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_5ec020b3-cb73c03a-39060b00-c287f3ea