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Cenovus received Pelican Lake Grand Rapids approval The Calgary-based  independent company Cenovus Energy Inc. (Cenovus) has bought the idled steam plant from the French major Total Joslyn project in the north of Alberta for relocation to its own Pelican Lake Grand Rapids steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) project in the Greater Pelican Region of Alberta in […]

APC and SK Gas selected CB&I licence for Ulsan PDH The downstream industrial group Advanced Petrochemical Company (APC) from Saudi Arabia and the midstream company SK Gas Corporation Ltd (SK Gas) from South-Korea signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to build a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Ulsan on the southwest coast of South Korea. Headquartered […]

BP 20K technology to takle high temperature-pressure The international oil company (IOC) BP from UK and the independent company Devon Energy Corporation (Devon) from Oklahoma, USA, are considering to use a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to develop the ultra deep Kaskida oil and gas field in the US Gulf of Mexico. Discovered […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]