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ORPIC evaluates bids on Sohar Refinery Expansion In April the Oman Oil Refineries & Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) had qualified eight engineering companies to receive the Call for Tender of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Sohar Refinery Expansion project. ORPIC is a national oil company (NOC), wholly owned owned by the Oman […]
BP to develop Khazzan and Makarem in phase 1 BP revised significantly upward its capital expenditure in Oman Full Field Development project from $15 billion to $24 billion. Discovered in the 1990s, the huge reserves of natural gas in Center Oman have been left undeveloped because of the complexity and the potential costs related to […]
Definition Nitrogen Fertilizer refers to one of the most common categories of fertilizers produced out of nitrogen (N) chemical combinations. To be considered as an organic fertilizer, the plant nutrient must contain 5% minimum of nitrogen. Comments Nitrogen is an inert gas representing 78% of the earth atmosphere. As inert gas in the form we breath […]
Shale gas boosts OCI into Iowa biggest investment ever The Iowa Fertilizer Company (IFC) a subsidiary of the Egyptian company Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) made the final investment decision (FID) to build a world-scale fertilizer plant in Iowa, USA. OCI selected the location near Wever, in the Lee County, southeastern Iowa, to develop its greenfield […]
Hess awarded FEED for Semi-submersible on WA-390-P Block Established in New Jersey, the American Hess Corporation (Hess) is based in New York City, USA. Since 2007, Hess holds the 100% working interest of the WA-390-P Block offshore Western Australia to develop the Equus project. Equus is part of the $6.8 billion Hess’s capital expenditure budget […]
Geitungen rises Johan Sverdrup beyond Statoil’s expectations on Utsira High While Statoil and its partners, Maersk, Petoro, Det norske oljeselskap and Lundin, are running intensive discussions to develop the giant Johan Sverdrup fields, the Geitungen discovery confirms all the potential of the still unexplored Utsira High areas within the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Located 140 kilometers west […]
Zadco to extend Zirku oil processing and gas treatment The Abu Dhabi company Zakum Development Company Oil Company (Zadco) is a joint venture between the national oil company (NOC) Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the international oil companies (IOCs) ExxonMobil and the Japan Oil Development Company (JODCO). Zadco was created in 1977 to […]
Larsen & Toubro wins Oman PDO Saih Rawl phase 2 >On August 27th 2012, Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO) awarded to Larsen & Toubro from India the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Saih Rawl Depletion Compression Phase 2 (SRDC2) project. Nine engineering companies were in competition to win this order of $235 […]
