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ExxonMobil to add DCU with Belgium ANWERUP The refining branch of ExxonMobil is planning to add a delayed coker unit (DCU) at its Belgium refinery with the Antwerp North-West Europe Resid Upgrading Project (ANWERUP). Located on the Port of Antwerp at the boarder with The Netherlands, this integrated refinery and petrochemical complex was built in […]

BP to re-tender Mad Dog 2 FEED on Atlantis concept BP is preparing the second call for tender on the front end engineering and design (FEED) for the Mad Dog-2 offshore platform based on the semi-submersible concept used for Atlantis in the US part of the Gulf of Mexico. Originally BP intended to develop the second […]

Foster Wheeler at FEED on MGSE gas compression In October 2013, the national oil company (NOC) Saudi Aramco selected the Swiss-based engineering company Foster Wheeler to perform the front end engineering and design (FEED) work of the compression stations for the Master Gas System Expansion (MGSE) project. To be implemented in phases, the Master Gas […]

Sete Brasil secured financing for nine first drilling ships Sete Brasil Participacoes SA (Sete Brasil) secured $3.7 billion loan to finance the first series of nine drilling rigs out of its $20 billion capital expenditure program for the construction of 29 rigs required by Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) to develop the pre-salt crude oil in the […]

BP recommends AIOC to add platforms before 2021 As the operator of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) oil field in the Caspian Sea of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan, BP shared with his partners, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (Socar), Inpex, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Statoil, TPAO, Itochu and ONGC Videsh, in the Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) his recommendations to maintain […]

Ningbo Fortune selects UOP technology for propylene As an Oriental Energy Corporation Ltd (Oriental Energy) company, Ningbo Fortune Petrochemical Corporation Ltd (Ningbo Fortune) selected the US-based UOP-Honeywell technology for a greenfield project to produce propylene at the port of Ningbo, in the Zhejiang Province, China. Previously named Zhangjiagang Oriental Energy, the company became Oriental Energy in […]

Fluor and WorleyParsons designed Tengiz Expansion The California-based international oil company (IOC) Chevron Corporation (Chevron) and its partners, the Kazakh national oil company (NOC) KazMuniaGas (KMG), the global leader ExxonMobil and the Russia company LukArco (Lukoil) are closely reviewing the offers of the engineering companies to award the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for […]

AMEC completed FEED  on KNPC Refinery Fifth Train Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has pre-qualified the engineering companies to be invited to bid (ITB) for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of the fifth gas processing train to be added at the Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery on the coast line of the Kuwait State. This pre-qualification […]

Eni may run its own fast track on Mozambique LNG The Italian national oil company Eni and its partners China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina), Kogas from South Korea, Galp Energia from Portugal and Mozambique Emprecia Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH)  are evaluating alternative solutions to develop its Mozambique liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on […]

PetroChina to unlock Athabasca oil sand reserves The Canadian specialist TransCanada and China Petroleum National Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) subsidiary Phoenix Energy Holdings (Phoenix) are preparing the execution of the Grand Rapids Pipeline Project to unlock the underdeveloped oil sands reserves lying in Athabasca northeastern Alberta, Canada. With this Grand Rapids Pipeline Project, TransCanada and PetroChina intend […]