One day – One Project
The $13 billion Keystone project is an entire network of pipelines connecting the key sources of supply from Alberta, Canada, in North end, and Gulf of Mexico, USA, in South end, to the main storage, trading and refining locations of Cushing, Oklahoma, USA, of Port Arthur, Texas, USA, and of Wood River & Patoka, USA. […]
In the Bohai bay of the Liaoning Province, in the northeast of China, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), started production of very heavy crude oil from the Suizhong 36-1 offshore field in 1993. The second phase came on stream in year 2000. Now CNOOC announced to proceed to a revamping of the existing […]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has invited local and foreign companies in Baku in April to build the partnerships around this $15 billion oil & gas and petrochemical complex in Baku, Azerbaijan. The project includes a: 10 million t/y refinery including 20 processing units 10 billion cum/y gas processing plant of ethane, propane, […]
Technip, in partnership with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), was awarded by Dong E&P and Bayerngas, a contract for the HEJRE project development, offshore Denmark, at a water depth of 70 meters. Dong owns 60% of the Hejre field and Bayerngas 40%. Estimated to cost $2.18 billion, this contract covers engineering, procurement, fabrication, hook-up, […]
Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. announced to invest more than $1.7 billion at its Point Comfort, Texas site, USA, in new Olefins and Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) facility. This will be the third major expansion at the Point Comfort site and will consist of a: New, grass-roots 800,000 MT/Y olefins cracker Associated 600,000 MT/Y propane dehydrogenation […]
Chevron Phillips Chemical Corporation (CP Chem) has selected its existing Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, Texas, USA, to build its new “world-scale” 1.5 million t/y ethylene plant. The ethane will come from the local shale gas resources considered now as a competitive and sustainable feed stock. The ethane cracker will use the Shaw technology and […]
Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Shell have signed a Head of Agreement to build $6.4 billion olefins and derivatives complex in Ras Laffan, Qatar. QP and Shell have already performed the feasibility study of this complex to be owned 80% by QP and 20% by Shell and to supply the Asia markets. The project includes: – […]
Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Qatar Petrochemicals Corporation (Qapco) have agreed to proceed with the $5.5 billion petrochemical complex in Ras Laffan, Qatar. The project will be owned by 80% by QP, 20% by Qapco, and will have a capacity of: – 1.4 million t/y ethylene – 850 000 t/y high density polyethylene (HDPE) – 430 000 t/y […]
