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KPI selects Sinopec Engineering for PDH and PP units The national company Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industry Inc Ltd (KPI) selected Sinopec Engineering Group (SEG) for the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning (EPCC) of the propane de-hydrogenation (PDH) and the polypropylene plants. This project is part of the petrochemical development program of the Republic of Kazakhstan to […]
Petronas calls for competitive FEED on Sepat project Since 2010, the national oil company (NOC), Petrolian Nasional Bhd (Petronas), has decided to put efforts to develop marginal fields offshore Malaysia. Around the Malaysian peninsula, Petronas identified 106 marginal oil fields representing more than 580 million barrels of crude oil that it cannot ignore any longer. These […]
Bechtel wins Ras Laffan Petrochemicals PMC contract The national oil company (NOC) Qatar Petroleum (QP) and the joint venture Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) selected the US-based engineering company Bechtel to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for the Ras Laffan Petrochemicals Project in Qatar. In this partnership with QP, QAPCO is itself a 80/20 joint venture between […]
Petronas calls for tender RAPID Package 8 EPCC The Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas has sent the invitation to bid (ITB) to the pre-qualified engineering companies for the Package 8 of the Refinery And Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project despite the one year delay announced earlier. With an estimated $20 billion capital expenditure, the […]
Cobalt to join Majors in Angola pre-salt Kwansa Basin With the Cameia discovery, the junior Cobalt International Energy Company Inc. (Cobalt) is joining the major companies BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Galp Energia, Maersk, Petrobras, PetroChina, Statoil and Total in the development of the pre-salt oil and gas reserves lying in the Angola deep offshore Kwanza […]
Fujian Shenyuan selects Air Liquide for coal gasification End of May 2013, Fujian Shenyuan New Materials Co. Ltd (Fujian Shenyuan) selected Air Liquide to build, own and operate a production unit of industrial gases for its Lianjiang caprolactam project in the Fujian Province, China. Fujian Shenyuan is one of the largest producer of nylon fibers […]
UAE to shunt Hormuz Strait with Fujairah Terminal Mubadala Petroleum and the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), both from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, are preparing the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase for their Emirates LNG project in Fujairah. Established in 2002 by the State of Abu Dhabi, the Mubadala Development Company […]
Xodus completes FEED on Banda Gas production The Houston-based engineering company Xodus Group (Xodus) is currently completing the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for the development of the offshore Banda gas field as the upstream part of the Mauritania Gas-To-Power project. In a similar scheme to the Kudu Gas-To-Power project in Namibia, Tullow […]
