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Turkmengas to export PE – PP from Kyyanly Complex The national oil and gas company Turkmengas State Concern (Turkmengas) is planning to invest $10 billion capital expenditure in a greenfield world-scale petrochemical complex at Kyyanly, also spelled Kiyanly, on East Coast of the Caspian Sea. Located in front Azerbaijan around the Caspian Sea and squeezed […]

Petronas sticks on all offshore multi-platforms for K5 The Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas is opting for the all offshore multi-platforms concept to develop the challenging K5 natural gas field in the South China Sea offshore the Sarawak Province in Malaysia. This decision comes in the same time as the French major company Total has […]

PDO to launch Rabab follow-up in Harweel Cluster The national oil company (NOC) Petroleum Development of Oman (PDO) made the final investment decision (FID) on the Rabab Harweel Integrated Project (RHIP) in the South of Oman. Following BP‘s decision to go ahead with the giant Khazzan and Makarem tight gas project in the center of […]

Technip completed Kurdistan BREP3 feasibility study The Dubai-based Qaiwan Global Energy DMCC (Qaiwan) Group has sent the call for bid (CFB) regarding the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its Bazian Refinery Expansion Project Phase-3 (BREP3) in the Kurdistan Province of Iraq. Qaiwan and Bezhan Petrochemical  Corporation (BezhanPet) operate in Bazian one of the […]

Goldboro LNG received Nova Scotia EA approval The young Pieridae Energy Ltd (Pieridae) company received the environmental assessment (EA) approval for its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project to be located at Goldboro in the Province of Nova Scotia, on the East Coast of Canada. If number of LNG export terminal projects have been announced […]

Jacobs to provide PMC for Mt Vernon Fertilizer Project The Kansas-based Midwest Fertilizer Inc. (Midwest fertilizer) selected Jacobs Engineering (Jacobs) to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for its world-scale fertilizer project at Mt Vernon, Posey County in Indiana, USA. Midwest was established in Paola City, KS, in 1980 as a local distributor of fertilizers Since then […]

Houston Offshore to complete Sea Lion pre-FEED work The Texas-based Houston Offshore Engineering (Houston Offshore) is currently completing the pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) work for the Sea Lion project offshore the Falklands Islands to be developed by the UK companies Premier Oil plc (Premier Oil) and Rockhopper Exploration plc (Rockhopper). The Sea Lion […]

Saipem won FEED for Basra Gas LNG Export Terminal  Basra Gas Company (BGC), the joint venture between the local South Gas Company (South Gas), Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) from The Netherlands and Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi) from Japan, awarded the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract to the Italian engineering company, Saipem for the construction […]

Petrobras Shell and Total qualify Libra FPSO bidders The national oil company (NOC) Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) and its partners, the majors Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), from The Netherlands, Total from France, and the Chinese champions China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) and China National Oil Offshore Corporation (CNOOC) are qualifying the engineering companies and […]

 Wison to propose Pandora FLNG conceptual design The Chinese engineering company and shipyard Wison Offshore and Marine (Wison) submitted an expression of interest (EOI) to the Australian junior company Cott Oil and Gas Limited (Cott) as the main stakeholder of the Block PRL 38 offshore Papua New Guinea to propose a floating liquefied natural gas […]