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YPFB awards Samsung first ammonia and urea plant Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Bolivia’s state-owned oil company, sent to Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd (Samsung) a notification of award (NOA) for a $843 million fertilizer plant. YPFB is planning to build this fertilizer facility in the city of Entre Rios, in the State of Cochabamba, in Bolivia as part […]
Saudi Aramco and Sabic gives momentum to GES+ Saudi Aramco initiated the concept of General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) initiative in order to enhance the level of competence of the local engineering companies and contractors and to contribute to create more value within Saudi Arabia. Indirectly the General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) is to increase the […]
Ibn Sina to move ahead in high performance chemicals Saudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) and its partners in Ibn Sina joint venture, Celanese Corp (Celanese) and Duke Energy Corp., have decided to reactivated the Polyacetal (POM) project in Al Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. Ibn Sina is the common name of the joint venture called […]
Definition Polypropylene is a thermoplastic material resulting from the polymerization of the propylene by catalysts. Polypropylene may also be called Polypropene. Polypropylene is usually represented by PP. Comments Polypropylene belongs to the olefins family as a polyolefins together with the Polyethylene. The Polypropylene is a polymer produced from the propylene monomer by catalytic polymerization. Because of its balanced crystalline molecular structure, […]
$20 billion Sadara project takes momentum in Al Jubail With 26 major production units, The Dow Chemical (Dow) and the Saudi National Oil Company Saudi Aramco are building up the world’s largest integrated petrochemical complex in Al Jubail Industrial City, in Al Sharqiya, 100 kilometers northwest Dammam in Saudi Arabia. Dow and Saudi Aramco expect their $20 […]
Rosneft and Exxon mobilize $3.2 billion as first step On April 2012, Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement to jointly explore and develop oil and gas fields in the Russian Black Sea and Kara Sea. This Strategic Agreement is supported by the: – Opportunity given to Rosneft to take stakes in ExxonMobil oil […]
GDF Suez, Centrica and Bayerngas sanction Cygnus development GDF Suez and its partners Centrica and Bayerngas awarded the detailed design contract to AMEC for the development of the Cygnus natural gas field in the UK continental shelf in the southern North Sea. Cygnus was discovered in 1988 in the blocks 44/12a and 44/11a. Then several appraisal […]
Devon and Sumitomo to develop Permian Basin tight oil Devon Energy Corporation (Devon) and Sumitomo Corporation (Sumitomo) entered an Agreement to jointly develop the Cline Shale and the Midland-Wolfcamp tight oil fields within the Permian Basin. The Cline Shale and the Midland-Wolfcamp tight oil fields are part of Devon‘s operations in USA where Devon has still a vast inventory of undrilled […]