Powell named CFO of Cobalt International

David D. Powell has been named chief financial officer and executive vice-president of Cobalt International Energy Inc., Houston. He replaces Shannon E. Young III. Source: News


EIA: US crude stockpiles down 2.2 million bbl

US commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dropped 2.2 million bbl during the week ended July 1 compared with the previous week’s average, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s latest Petroleum Status Report. Source: News


EIA: US crude stockpiles down 2.2 million bbl

US commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dropped 2.2 million bbl during the week ended July 1 compared with the previous week’s average, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s latest Petroleum Status Report. Source: News


Petrobel lets Zohr pipeline, well contract

Belayim Petroleum Corp. (Petrobel) has let an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract to Saipem for work in the accelerated development of Zohr natural gas field offshore Egypt. Source: News


Petrobel lets Zohr pipeline, well contract

Belayim Petroleum Corp. (Petrobel) has let an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract to Saipem for work in the accelerated development of Zohr natural gas field offshore Egypt. Source: News


Petro Rabigh’s refinery due new units

Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Co. (Petro Rabigh), a joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical Co., has let a contract to KT-Kinetics Technology SPA, a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont SPA, Milan, to complete a clean fuels project at Petro Rabigh’s 400,000-b/d refinery and chemicals complex in the port city of Rabigh on the Red […]


McKinsey: Cars, petrochemicals in oil-market ‘tug of war’

Demand for liquid hydrocarbons will become a “tug of war between growth the petrochemical sector and declining demand from passenger cars,” predict analysts at McKinsey & Co. in a report suggesting oil demand might peak in 2030. Source: News