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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
