O&G Next Generation speaks to Waseem Marzogi, head of the ABB’s Process Automation division for Saudi Arabia about ABB’s activities in the region.
Alphatec Engineering, the machinery grouting specialist based in Valencia, Spain, recently completed a foundation repair, compressor regrout, motor baseplate regrout and re-alignment of an important link in the refining process at Petroplus’ Cressier refinery in Switzerland.
With mature field operation an increasingly lucrative part of oil firms’ production portfolios, O&G speaks to Hamed Karim of Egypt’s PICO Petroleum to find out the key issues.
Downstream costs continue to march back to pre-recession levels as activity picks up, with revived projects benefitting from recession-driven cost declines.
Despite moves to diversify away from a dependence on hydrocarbons, the oil and gas sector remains key to the strength of the Bahraini economy. O&G speaks to HE Dr. Abdul Hussain bin Ali Mirza, Bahraini Minister of Oil and Gas Affairs and Chairman of the National Oil and gas Authority, about plans for 2011 – and their impact on the infrastructure sector.