development of the shale gas
Total Petrochemicals mulls over Port Arthur new cracker The French major company Total is looking West side of Atlantic for the expansion of its petrochemical activities with a greenfield ethylene cracker to be added on its existing Texas Port Arthur complex in USA. As most of the international oil companies (IOCs) Total is looking to take […]
BASF selected US Texas Freeport for greenfield MTO The German chemical giant BASF SE (BASF) has selected its Freeport existing site on the Texas US Gulf Coast to build a greenfield Methane-To-Olefins (MTO) complex based on the critical methane-to-propylene (MTP) conversion. While the Bundestag, the German Parliament, continues to debate about the opportunity to allow or […]
Saudi Arabia Projects and Business Highlights 2014 On the last five years, the national oil company (NOC) Saudi Aramco invested mostly in the downstream sector including large grassroot refineries and the largest petrochemical complexes in the world. But on the second half of the year 2014 we could see Saudi Aramco turning back to upstream activities to explorer new resources […]
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 […]
Leading North American energy producer Born in 2002 in Calgary, Alberta, from the merger between PanCanadian Energy Corporation (PanCanadian Energy) and Alberta Energy Company Ltd (Alberta Energy), Encana is operating in oil and gas exploration and production in North America. Headquartered in Calgary, Encana is listed in Toronto and New York Stock exchanges. Created in the 1880s […]
Shell to invest $20 billion in LNG and GTL for 2012 – 15 During Investors day in London, the major Royal Dutch Shell plc ( Shell) presented last week, its vision on the gas future global market and its strategy to sustain a profitable growth and market leadership in this sector. Compared with the other major […]
