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CNPC and Rosneft plan Tianjin Refinery and Chemical The State-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) and the Russia oil and gas champion OAO Rosneft (Rosneft) signed an agreement on the design and construction planning of the Tianjin Refinery and Petrochemical complex to be built through their joint venture PetroChina-Rosneft Orient Petrochemical Tianjin Company […]
APC and SK Gas selected CB&I licence for Ulsan PDH The downstream industrial group Advanced Petrochemical Company (APC) from Saudi Arabia and the midstream company SK Gas Corporation Ltd (SK Gas) from South-Korea signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to build a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Ulsan on the southwest coast of South Korea. Headquartered […]
Banagas considers Sitra Third Train Expansion project While Tatweer Petroleum (Tatweer) is increasing its oil and gas production from the Bahrain Field, Bahrain National Gas Company (Banagas) is considering the expansion of its Sitra gas processing facilities with the addition of a third train. Covering 80 percent of Bahrain main island, the Bahrain field was discovered […]
BASF and Yara at work on Freeport Ammonia Project The German-based chemical leader BASF and the Norwegian nitrogen fertilizers producer Yara International (Yara) have signed an agreement to build a world-scale ammonia plant on the US Gulf Coast. With the largest agriculture in the world, USA is the most strategic market for fertilizers. Anyway the […]
Shell takes majority share in LNG Canada Development The Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), and its partners, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina), Koreas gas Corporation (Kogas) and Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi) from Japan established a joint venture to design, built and operate the LNG Canada project to produce and export liquefied natural gas (LNG) out […]
Tecnicas Reunidas completed FEED for Jubail MMA The Spanish engineering company Tecnicas Reunidas completed the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the world largest methyl methacrylate (MMA) production unit planned by Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) and Mitsubishi Rayon Company (MRC) at the Al-Jubail Industrial City in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. This […]
Oregon LNG: Next project in line for FERC approval The Ukraine crisis may benefit to the series of Export liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal projects in the USA in beginning with Oregon LNG supported by Leucadia National Company (Leucadia) on the west coast of USA. Even though the Oregon LNG project is located on the Pacific Coast with […]
US Shintech in view of Plaquemine PVC expansion Shintech Inc. (Shintech), the US subsidiary of the Japanese Group Shin-Etsu Chemical Corporation Ltd (Shin-Etsu), submitted an application for air permit to Louisiana Department of Environment Quality to build a greenfield ethylene plant in perspective of future expansion at the existing polyvinyl chloride (PVC) facilities at Plaquemine […]
