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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 […]

Gazprom and Shell to add third LNG train at Sakhalin II Gazprom and the Royal-Dutch Shell (Shell) met in Sotchi end of February to approve a memorandum of understanding (MOU) defining the roadmap to proceed to the Sakhalin II expansion project with the addition of a third liquefied natural gas (LNG) train at the existing […]

Liquid Light tests CO2 conversion commercial viability Based in the New-Jersey, USA, the technology company Liquid Light Corporation (Liquid Light) presented a successful demo-case to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into mono ethylene glycol (MEG) in viable commercial conditions. Carbon dioxide is well known as superabundant waste emitted in nearly every industrial transformation or energy combustion […]

Technip won FEED for Shell Peterhead CCS project The Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and the Scottish utility company SSE Generation Ltd (SSE) have selected the french engineering company Technip to provide the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for the construction of the world-scale fully integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) project to be developed […]

Takamul at FEED stage for Salalah Ammonia Project The Omani Takamul Investment Company (Takamul) is moving forward in the downstream sector with petrochemical projects at Salalah in the south of the Sultanate and at Sohar in the north. Acting as the chemical branch of the Oman Oil Company (OOC or Oman Oil), Takamul benefits also from […]

Petrofac contracted as Block R Development Operator The London-based junior company Ophir Energy plc (Ophir) has appointed the engineering company Petrofac from UK, to support them for the development of the natural gas reserves held in the Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea on the west coast of Africa. While listed in UK with main operations […]

Woodside signed agreement on Grassy Point LNG The Australian company Woodside Petroleum (Woodside) and the Government of British Columbia (BC) signed an agreement to open a greenfield liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Grassy Point along the west coast of Canada. This Grassy Point project comes at the end of a list of more than […]