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CompactGTL announces 3,000 bpd commercial small-scale GTL project in Kazakhstan

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CompactGTL will build a commercially deployed small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan offers considerable potential for CompactGTL’s proven small-scale GTL technology, the company said. Kazakhstan offers considerable potential for CompactGTL’s proven small-scale GTL technology, the company said.

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Opinion: Oil Megaprojects Won’t Stay On The Shelf For Long

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One casualty of the oil price downturn could be the megaproject. For years, as conventional oil reserves depleted and became increasingly hard to find, oil companies ventured into far-flung locales to find new sources of production. The collapse of oil prices, however, could kill off the megaproject.

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Chevron announces $32.7B capital and exploratory budget for 2012; LNG and deepwater investments propel a step change

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By 2017, we expect our net crude oil and natural gas production to grow about 20 percent to 3.3 Approximately 87% of the 2012 spending program is budgeted for upstream crude oil and natural gas exploration and production projects. Kazakhstan/Russia: Caspian Pipeline expansion. million barrels per day.

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Opinion: Uranium Prices Set To Double By 2018

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Mining Weekly expects “the period from 2017-2020 to be a landmark period for the nuclear sector and uranium stocks, as the global operating nuclear reactor fleet expands.”. Morningstar analyst David Wang predicts prices will double within the next two years. Considering that nearly half of the U.S.’

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Change in primary oil demand by sector and region in the central New Policies Scenario, 2010-2035. Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. Click to enlarge. billion in 2035.

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