The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on 30 April 2009 announced the awards of 21 new production licenses in the 20th Licensing Round. The licensing round is a part of the effort to increase petroleum activities in the northern areas of Norway.
The awards in the 20th licensing round comprise 9 new production licenses in [...]

Indian Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MOP&NG) launched the Eighth round of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP-VIII) and Fourth round of Coal Bed Methane (CBM-IV) yesterday.
NELP-VIII round offers 70 exploration blocks comprising of 24 deepwater blocks, 28 shallow water blocks, 18 onland blocks [ including 10 onland small sized (Type-S) blocks ]. These 70 [...]

CB&I through Lummus Technology, has been awarded contracts with an overall value in excess of US$45 million by Essar Gujarat Petrochemicals Limited for technology licenses and basic engineering related to a major grassroots petrochemicals complex in Vadinar, Gujarat, India. The technologies to be provided include ethylene, ethylbenzene/styrene monomer, butadiene extraction, MTBE/ETBE/butene-1, and cumene/phenol.
The cornerstone of [...]