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Enterprise selects Mont Belvieu for its ethane terminal The natural gas liquids (NGL) midstream US specialist Enterprise Products Partners LP (Enterprise or EPP)  has decided to build a giant ethane export terminal in its hub of Mont Belvieu, on the Texas Gulf Coast in USA. These last months, Enterprise multiplied the projects announcements of greenfield projects […]

Statoil at the drawing board to save costs on Bressay The Norwegian State-owned company Statoil and its partner, the Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), are considering all options in order to reduce costs for the development of the heavy crude oil offshore project, Bressay, in the UK North Sea. In November 2013, while Statoil and Shell were expected […]

PCIC Europe Conference Technical Program published The 11th conference of the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee (PCIC) Europe will take place in Amsterdam on June 3rd to 5th 2014. Dedicated to the automation and electrical engineers of the oil and gas and petrochemical industry, the PCIC Europe Conference imposed itself as the must attend event […]

BP considers to invest $1 billion in Duqm Acetic Acid  The UK-based international oil company BP is considering to build a greenfield acetic acid plant at Duqm in the south of Oman using newly developed SaaBre technology. For years BP is well known to have concentrated its capital expenditure and technical expertise on the upstream sector […]

CNOOC to tender one FEED for two TLPs in Liuhua The national oil company (NOC) China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) made its mind up regarding the conceptual design to be used for the development of the offshore oil and gas fields Liuhua 11-1 and Liuhua 16-2 in favor two tension legs platforms (TLPs) to […]

Kazakhstan to monetize associated gas with GTL plant Chaired by ex BP CEO, Tony Hayward, the innovative company CompactGTL Limited (CompactGTL) signed a memorandum of co-operation with the Ministry of Oil and Gas in Kazakhstan to build in this country the first small-scale gas-to-liquid (GTL) facility in the world. With this project Kazakhstan is willing […]

XER to combine Teekay-Sevan FSO with Arup Platform The Aberdeen-based Xcite Energy Resources Limited (Xcite or XER) company selected the conceptual design to develop its heavy crude oil field, Bentley offshore the Shetland Islands in the UK North Sea in combining a Teekay Sevan-type floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel together with Arup ACE steel […]

Sabic and Shell start Sadaf Polyurethane FEED work The international oil company (IOC) Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and the global petrochemical group Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) have agreed to expand their joint venture Saudi Petrochemical Company (Sadaf) with the addition of world-scale polyolefins production units on their existing site in the Al-Jubail Industrial Zone […]

South Oil evaluates offers for CSSP FEED contract The state-owned South Oil Company (SOC) is currently evaluating the offers for the giant Common Seawater Supply Project (CSSP) to be built in the south of Iraq to provide all the water required by the exploration and production of the oil and gas fields in the Basra […]

Petronas plans Malaysia Block SK 316 second platform The Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas is qualifying the engineering companies and contractors to be invited to bid (ITB) for a second platform to be installed on the Block SK 316 to develop the Kasawari gas field offshore the Sarawak Province in Malaysia. Since 2011, Petronas accumulated […]