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Williams to value oil sands Propane to export Propylene Williams Energy ( Williams) is planning to expand its existing facility located at Redwater, near Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, to produce polymer-grade propylene. In Canada, Williams developed a unique expertise to capture and convert all the off-gas by-products of the oil sands production in the upgraders […]
Anadarko sold 7.2% Lucius stakes to welcome Inpex Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (Anadarko), formaly Kerr-Mc Gee, and its partners, Apache, Eni, ExxonMobil, Petrobras and Plains Exploration & Production (PXP), had sanctioned the development of the Lucius project in December 2011. In July 2012, Anadarko sold 7.2% of its interests in Lucius to Teikoku Oil, a wholly owned Inpex […]
Qatar to invest $25 billion in petrochemicals until 2020 In February 2012, Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Qatar Petrochemicals Corporation (Qapco) had signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) to add a $5.5 billion petrochemical complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. In this project QP and Qapco will share interests according to: – Qatar Petroleum 80% – Qapco 20% In Qapco […]
Saudi Aramco extends Jacobs’s FEED on $3 billion Ras Tanura Refinery Clean Fuel and Aromatics project In May 2011 Saudi Aramco awarded the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) to Jacobs ZATE for the Ras Tanura Refinery Clean Fuel and Aromatics project. Located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, along the Arabian Gulf, Ras […]
Shell signed with Horsehead for Pennsylvania site In March 2012, Shell signed with Horsehead Corp (Horsehead) a land option agreement on a 300 acre site for its $2.5 billion ethane cracker and petrochemical complex. This Appalachia ethane cracker project is a key milestone in Shell’s strategy to develop an upstream–downstream integrated business model to benefit from […]
YPFB awards Samsung first ammonia and urea plant Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Bolivia’s state-owned oil company, sent to Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd (Samsung) a notification of award (NOA) for a $843 million fertilizer plant. YPFB is planning to build this fertilizer facility in the city of Entre Rios, in the State of Cochabamba, in Bolivia as part […]
Statoil awards on time Mariner and Bressay FEEDs Statoil awards Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contracts to develop the $9.6 billion capital expenditure Mariner and Bressay according to plan. Mariner and Bressay are very similar projects to produce ultra heavy crude oil, offshore on the North Sea shallow water of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) but with different working interests. In Mariner: – Statoil owns 61.5% […]
Ibn Sina to move ahead in high performance chemicals Saudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) and its partners in Ibn Sina joint venture, Celanese Corp (Celanese) and Duke Energy Corp., have decided to reactivated the Polyacetal (POM) project in Al Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. Ibn Sina is the common name of the joint venture called […]
