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More than 300 corporate and government officials, manufacturing representatives and consultants across the world attended the ISA 2012 Automation Conference in Doha, Qatar Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (PRWEB) December 15, 2012 The International Society of Automation (ISA) announced today that more than 300 corporate and government officials, manufacturing representatives and consultants across the world attended the association’s 2012 Automation Conference in Doha, Qatar, the...
DETROIT, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Case Number: 2:2012cv14811, filed on October 30, 2012. World-renown US architectural firm, YAMASAKI, notably known as the design firm of the World Trade Center Buildings in New York that were destroyed on 9/11, has filed suit in the United States District Court against Qatar Petroleum ("QP"), Qatar Foundation ("QF"), Baytur Insaat Taahhut ("Baytur"), Abu Dhabi National Oil...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online At the beginning of this week, the world’s largest oil company had announced all of their systems were back online following a cyber attack which occurred several days prior. Now, a second energy company has found a virus in their computer network, further raising concern about cyber security, especially in the energy sector. According to Reuters, RasGas, the world’s second largest liquified natural gas exporter, has been...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The engineering mega-project Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) plant, an $18 billion-$19 billion development by Qatar Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell, reaches a new milestone this month, as Shell gets ready to manage the handover of instrumentation data. The engineering instrumentation database comprises about 150,000 loops, 350,000 instruments and 90,000 data sheets. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081211/DECLOGO ) The central...
LONDON, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- http://www.visiongain.com/Report/788/The-Mobile-Offshore-Drilling-Units-%28MODU%29-Market-2012-2022 Oil and gas production from offshore resources is of considerable importance for energy [http://www.visiongain.com/Sector/124/Energy ] companies as existing base resources are being depleted at a rapid rate. New oil discoveries of significance are becoming less common, with the majority of major finds being offshore. A large amount...
HOUSTON, Nov. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Shell Lubricants announced today the arrival of its first shipment of gas-to-liquid (GTL) base oil at the Port of Houston. The high-quality product, the first from the Qatar-based Pearl GTL plant to reach the Americas, will be stored at a hub in Houston and routed to Shell Lubricants' GTL-enabled blending facilities throughout the United States. Shell Lubricants will use Pearl GTL base oil, a high-quality Group III base oil, in the manufacture of its...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, November 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, The Emir of Qatar today officially inaugurated the Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) Project, the largest GTL plant in the world and the largest energy project in the state of Qatar. Visiting dignitaries including HRH Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, toured the facility and were briefed on the state-of-the-art technologies used to convert natural gas resources from Qatar's North...
DOHA, Qatar, October 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- International Energy publication The Oil & Gas Year launched its Qatar 2011 publication in a ceremony taking place at Doha Intercontinental Hotel on Monday October 10, 2011. The Oil & Gas Year Qatar 2011 will be the fourth edition of the annual report focusing on the country's vibrant hydrocarbons industry. The Oil & Gas Year Qatar 2011 is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Qatar's energy industry, looking...
JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- South African energy and chemicals group Sasol today announced that it has chosen the southwestern region of the State of Louisiana as the site for a planned gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility. The project is slated to be the first plant in the U.S. to produce GTL transportation fuels and other products. In a press conference today with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Sasol Managing Director: New Business Development Ernst Oberholster...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Qatar Petroleum and Shell (NYSE: RDS.A) (NYSE: RDS.B) today announced that the Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant, located in Ras Laffan Industrial City in the State of Qatar, has sold its first commercial shipment of GTLGasoil. The sale marks the start of production of GTL products when the State of Qatar and Shell, the operator of the Pearl GTL plant, begin to receive revenue from the project. Over the coming months,...
