Petronas News

Technip snaps up Malaysian work

Nov 06, 2014

Technip has secured a five-year framework agreement with PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB) for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) or supply-only of flexible pipes for PCSB’s projects in Malaysia. The Deep Orient…

Kongsberg wins Petronas software contract

Oct 17, 2014

Malaysia’s Petronas Carigali awarded Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS a US$2.2 million contract for drilling operations software and services. The software, SiteCom, is a real-time drilling operations software. The four-year contract has a one-year extension option…

WDS gets Santos GLNG contract

Nov 20, 2014

The Santos Gladstone liquefied natural gas (GLNG) project is moving closer to completion with the award of another contract. The Santos GLNG joint venture awarded WDS Ltd. a construction contract for the Roma West Phase 2 of the Santos GLNG project in Queensland…

Lundin bites dust on Kitabu-1

Nov 18, 2014

Lundin Petroleum’s Kitabu-1 exploration well, in Blocks SB307/SB30, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, came up dry, the Swedish independent announced on 18 November. Lundin said that the primary reservoir interval contained poor quality siltstone…

Petronas buys Statoil's Shah Deniz stake

Oct 13, 2014

Malaysian state-owned oil firm Petronas has bought Statoil’s stakes in the BP-operated Shah Deniz project from Norway’s Statoil for US$2.25 billion.  Statoil says the move, which sees it exit the Shah Deniz project, is part of its portfolio management…

Pemex signs MoUs with Petronas, YPF

Sep 30, 2014

Mexico’s Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has signed agreements with Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) and with Argentina’s YPF, to take advantage of new opportunities opening through Mexican energy reform. Heads of the three national oil companies met last week in Cancún…

Emerson gets in on Shah Deniz project

Nov 05, 2014

BP awarded Emerson Process Management a US$40 million contract to be the main automation contractor for the Shah Deniz Stage 2 development project in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. Upon the terms of the agreement, Emerson will…

Lundin begins Kitabu off Malaysia

Oct 27, 2014

Lundin Petroleum AB spudded the Kitabu-1 exploration well in Block SB307/308, offshore Sabah, Malaysia. The West Prospero. From Seadrill.   The Kitabu prospect is a stratigraphic trap…

Petronas extends Maersk jackup contract

Sep 23, 2014

Maersk Drilling’s Convincer jackup rig received an additional one-year extension from Petronas Carigali, E&P subsidiary of Malaysia’s national oil company. The US$56 million contract is expected to end mid-November 2015. “Together with Petronas Carigali…

OneSubsea gets Pemex Lakach contract

Oct 13, 2014

Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) awarded the Houston-based, Cameron-Schlumberger joint venture OneSubsea, a US$270 million subsea production systems contract for the Lakach deepwater project offshore Mexico. The Lakach project is the first deepwater subsea field to be developed by Pemex…

McDermott wins Indonesian work

Oct 20, 2014

McDermott International, Inc. won a transportation, installation and pre-commissioning contract from a subsidiary of PETRONAS, for the Bukit Tua development project in the Ketapang block of East Java, Indonesia. This new contract is for…

Pemex, Pacific Rubiales team up

Oct 17, 2014

Toronto-based, South American-focused explorer Pacific Rubiales Energy has entered into a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mexico's state oil firm Pemex, the company announced on 17 October. Pacific Rubiales said the…

First gas fed at Santos GLNG

Oct 14, 2014

After two and a half years, Santos Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas (GLNG) fed natural gas into its 420km gas transmission pipeline for the first time using its primary compressor station in the Fairview field in southwest Queensland. Santos…

Pemex, ExxonMobil ink agreement

Oct 02, 2014

Furthering its flurry of activity after Mexico’s landmark energy reform, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and ExxonMobil signed a preliminary deal to establish dialogue and jointly analyze both upstream and downstream business opportunities. Pemex…

Lundin acquires interest off Malaysia

Sep 25, 2014

Norway’s Lundin Petroleum will acquire operatorship and 50% interest from Petronas Carigali in PM328, offshore Malaysia. The agreement is effective on 31 August 2014. In the first 18 months of the three-year production sharing contract (PSC)…

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