March 2014

Petronet makes decision on Dahej LNG Regasification Plant Expansion

Toyo Engineering starts to harvest India LNG Terminals The Indian leading midstream company Petronet LNG Limited (Petronet) has selected Toyo Engineering Company (Toyo or TEC) to expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and regasification plant in Dahej, Gujarat, on the west coast of India. India is the 13th largest gas consumer and 4th largest […]

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Petronas finalizes scope of work for Iraq Gharraf Phase-2

Weatherford completed Gharraf oil field FEED work The Swiss-based oil and gas fields services company Weatherford International Ltd (Weatherford) completed the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the Gharraf, or Garraf,  oil and gas field operated by the Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas, Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) and the local North Oil Company  (NOC)

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Liquid Light manages to convert carbon dioxide into chemicals

Liquid Light tests CO2 conversion commercial viability Based in the New-Jersey, USA, the technology company Liquid Light Corporation (Liquid Light) presented a successful demo-case to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into mono ethylene glycol (MEG) in viable commercial conditions. Carbon dioxide is well known as superabundant waste emitted in nearly every industrial transformation or energy combustion

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Shell and SSE go on world-scale UK Carbone Capture and Storage project

Technip won FEED for Shell Peterhead CCS project The Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and the Scottish utility company SSE Generation Ltd (SSE) have selected the french engineering company Technip to provide the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for the construction of the world-scale fully integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) project to be developed

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Oman Oil accelerates downstream with Takamul petrochemical projects

Takamul at FEED stage for Salalah Ammonia Project The Omani Takamul Investment Company (Takamul) is moving forward in the downstream sector with petrochemical projects at Salalah in the south of the Sultanate and at Sohar in the north. Acting as the chemical branch of the Oman Oil Company (OOC or Oman Oil), Takamul benefits also from

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Ophir prefers FLNG to run fast track in Equatorial Guinea

Petrofac contracted as Block R Development Operator The London-based junior company Ophir Energy plc (Ophir) has appointed the engineering company Petrofac from UK, to support them for the development of the natural gas reserves held in the Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea on the west coast of Africa. While listed in UK with main operations

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ExxonMobil on Antwerp North-West Europe Resid Upgrading Project

ExxonMobil to add DCU with Belgium ANWERUP The refining branch of ExxonMobil is planning to add a delayed coker unit (DCU) at its Belgium refinery with the Antwerp North-West Europe Resid Upgrading Project (ANWERUP). Located on the Port of Antwerp at the boarder with The Netherlands, this integrated refinery and petrochemical complex was built in

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