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