May 2014

Japanese Cosmo Oil enters design stage at Abu Dhabi Hail offshore field

ADOC awarded Hail FEED contract to Technip The Cosmo Oil Ltd (Cosmo Oil) subsidiary, Abu Dhabi Oil Corporation (ADOC), made the decision to start the design phase of the Hail oil field offshore Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in awarding the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract to the French engineering company […]

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Bahrain to increase Tatweer associated gas monetization

Banagas considers Sitra Third Train Expansion project While Tatweer Petroleum (Tatweer) is increasing its oil and gas production from the Bahrain Field, Bahrain National Gas Company (Banagas) is considering the expansion of its Sitra gas processing facilities with the addition of a third train. Covering 80 percent of Bahrain main island, the Bahrain field was discovered

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General American LNG fires up new export LNG terminal project in USA

GALNG secured land for American Coast LNG Terminal The Houston-based General American LNG LLNC (GALNG) company is securing land along the US Gulf Coast to build and operate the American Coast liquefied natural gas (LNG) Terminal project. This American Coast LNG Terminal project is expanding the long list of the already announced LNG production and export facilities

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BASF and Yara in progress for world-scale ammonia plant in USA

BASF and Yara at work on Freeport Ammonia Project The German-based chemical leader BASF and the Norwegian nitrogen fertilizers producer Yara International (Yara) have signed an agreement to build a world-scale ammonia plant on the US Gulf Coast. With the largest agriculture in the world, USA is the most strategic market for fertilizers. Anyway the

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Shell PetroChina Kogas and Mitsubishi signed for LNG Canada

Shell takes majority share in LNG Canada Development The Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), and its partners, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina), Koreas gas Corporation (Kogas) and Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi) from Japan established a joint venture to design, built and operate the LNG Canada project to produce and export liquefied natural gas (LNG) out

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Sabic and Mitsubishi evaluate bids on Saudi Jubail Methyl Methacrylate

Tecnicas Reunidas completed FEED for Jubail MMA The Spanish engineering company Tecnicas Reunidas completed the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the world largest methyl methacrylate (MMA) production unit planned by Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) and Mitsubishi Rayon Company (MRC) at the Al-Jubail Industrial City in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. This

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Brazil Petrobras relocates P-72 and P-73 FPSOs in Tupi and Iara

Petrobras to retender P-72 – P-73 FPSOs new design The Brazil national oil company (NOC) Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) is preparing the second call for tender for the integration of the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels P-72 and P-73 with a new design resulting from the relocation of these replica FPSOs within the

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Ukraine crisis to benefit to Leucadia US Export LNG Terminal approval

Oregon LNG: Next project in line for FERC approval The Ukraine crisis may benefit to the series of Export liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal projects in the USA in beginning with Oregon LNG supported by Leucadia National Company (Leucadia) on the west coast of USA. Even though the Oregon LNG project is located on the Pacific Coast with

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Shin-Etsu submits application for new Louisiana ethylene cracker

US Shintech in view of Plaquemine PVC expansion Shintech Inc. (Shintech), the US subsidiary of the Japanese Group Shin-Etsu Chemical Corporation Ltd (Shin-Etsu), submitted an application for air permit to Louisiana Department of Environment Quality to build a greenfield ethylene plant in perspective of future expansion at the existing polyvinyl chloride (PVC) facilities at Plaquemine

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Hess and Petronas at final decision on Malaysia Bergading CPP

Hess and Petronas to start North Malay Basin Phase-2 The New York– based Hess Coporation (Hess) and the Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas are reaching the final investment decision (FID) stage with the Bergading project to develop the natural gas and condensate in the North Malay Basin offshore the Malaysia Peninsula. As part of

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