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New Terminal after Houston Ship Channel Expansion The Houston-based midstream company Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) is looking for the most appropriate site along the US Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana to build a new terminal to export liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). This project comes on the top of the previously announced expansion of […]

JGC and Fluor to build Baytown USGC Ethane cracker Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (ChevronPhillips) made the final investment decision (FID) to build its Cedar Bayou US Gulf Coast Petrochemical (USGC) project in Baytown, Texas, USA. In following this decision ChevronPhillips selected the 50/50 joint venture of JGC Corporation from Japan and Fluor Enterprises Inc. from […]

Total made final decision to develop Incahuasi gas field The French major company, Total and its partners, Gazprom from Russia and Tecpetrol de Bolivia (Tecpetrol), made the final investment decision (FID) to develop the gas and condensate discoveries from Incahuasi in Bolivia. In a country where the production of natural gas is historically dominated by […]

Adma-Opco call for technical bid on Al-Nasr Full Field Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Adma-Opco) published the deadlines for the engineering companies to submit their technical offers for the Al-Nasr Full Field Development project offshore Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). As Al-Nasr Full Field Development project, Adma-Opco intents to proceed to the second […]

North Reggane first production still targeted in 2016 Despite the In Amenas attack, the Spanish Repsol and its partners, the national oil company (NOC) Sonatrach, RWE Dea  from Germany, and Edison from Italy, are moving ahead in the development of the North Reggane gas fields according to the original plans to deliver the first production […]

CB&I and Foster Wheeler in competitive pre-FEED The two super giant companies Rosneft from Russia and ExxonMobil from USA have awarded contracts to the engineering companies CB&I and Foster Wheeler Energy from USA to perform the first phase of the front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) for their joined project of liquefied natural gas (LNG) […]

Velocys to provide technology to Pinto Ohio GTL project The Houston-based Pinto Energy (Pinto) has selected Ashtabula in the Ohio, USA to build its first unit of series of small scale unit of gas-to-liquids (GTL) transformation. Considering the long standing gap between the natural gas prices and the low sulfur diesel price, Pinto Energy identified the […]

Shell and ExxonMobil court InterOil for new LNG project The super major companies Shell from The Netherlands and ExxonMobil from USA are head to head in intensive negotiations with InterOil Corporation (InterOil) for the development of world scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Listed in New York Stock Exchange, InterOil was […]

Saudi Aramco to expand Khurais and Shaybah oil fields After years to push ahead its refining and petrochemical activities, Saudi Aramco is coming back to its upstream core business in preparing the expansion of the giant Khurais and Shaybah oil and gas fields. As the most influential member of the OPEC organization, Saudi Arabia is […]

GDF-Suez and Sonatrach to invest $3 billion in Touat The Algerian national company Sonatrach and the France-based utility and energy group GDF-Suez selected the Spanish engineering company Tecnicas Reunidas to execute the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract for the development of the giant Touat gas field in southwestern Algeria. In the Touat project, […]