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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 […]

KBR won EPC contract for Agrium Lone Star Project The Texas-based engineering company KBR has been awarded the Lone Star Project by the Canadian fertilizer specialist Agrium to debottleneck its ammonia production unit located in Borger, Texas USA. Through Cominco Fertilizers Ltd (Cominco), Agrium started operations in 1933 and opened the Borger facility in 1966 to […]

Toyo Engineering starts to harvest India LNG Terminals The Indian leading midstream company Petronet LNG Limited (Petronet) has selected Toyo Engineering Company (Toyo or TEC) to expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and regasification plant in Dahej, Gujarat, on the west coast of India. India is the 13th largest gas consumer and 4th largest […]

Weatherford completed Gharraf oil field FEED work The Swiss-based oil and gas fields services company Weatherford International Ltd (Weatherford) completed the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the Gharraf, or Garraf,  oil and gas field operated by the Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas, Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) and the local North Oil Company  (NOC) […]

QGPE called for two tenders in view of Atlanta FPSO The development of the Block BS-4 is now moving forward with the call for tenders issued by Quieroz Galvao Exploration and Production (QGEP) for two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels in view of the Atlanta heavy crude oil project in the Santos Basin […]