Petronas
October 8th, 2009
Courtesy of The Economist, a report on Petronas – Malaysia’s national oil company. As the article notes: “…A decade after opening, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur are no longer the world’s tallest. But Petroliam Nasional, the company that built them, continues to grow. It exports lots of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to booming […]
Read more »Southeast Asian Oil Firms Scout For Foreign Assets
September 20th, 2009
Via The Peninsula (Qatar), a report that Southeast Asia’s major oil and gas firms are gearing up for an aggressive expansion to overhaul local operations and snap up foreign assets to meet the needs of a fast-growing, power-hungry region. As the article notes: “…From the archipelagos of Indonesia and the Philippines to the rapidly developing […]
Read more »Gazprom’s South American Deals
September 22nd, 2008
Via The Moscow Times, a report that Gazprom was among eight companies that signed deals to develop offshore gas fields with state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela. As the article notes: “…The deals included U.S.-based Chevron, Italy’s Eni, Portugal’s GALP Energia, Qatar Petroleum, Malaysia’s Petronas, Argentina’s Enarsa and Japanese companies Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Itochu, in a sign […]
Read more »The Future of Petronas: Pemex or Petrobras?
June 13th, 2008
As reported by Stratfor (subscription required), Malaysia’s energy giant Petronas could go broke within a decade if the government takes all of its profits under a new tax scheme, the company’s president and chief executive Tan Sri Hassan Marican recently said. Although Petronas would not be the first Asian energy major to bow under soaring […]
Read more »Petronas’ Dream Contracts in Uzbekistan: Results of Long-term Planning & Engagement
February 11th, 2008
As adroitly noted in Energy Daily, Malaysia’s Petronas (one of the New “Seven Sisters” which more than ten years ago was already working in Turkmenistan, another hydrocarbon rich nation that Western companies only recently began exploring) seems set to repeat its success in the one Central Asian country with immense potential that has been largely […]
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