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Oxy to join Chevron, Dow, Exxon and Shell US projects On December 2012, Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) submitted a permit application to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the construction of a new ethylene cracker at Ingleside in Texas, USA. Based in Los Angeles in California, USA, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) is the largest […]
Petronas to award Angsi CEOR vessel EPC contracts The Malaysian national oil company Petronas is preparing the call for tender of the topsides and vessel conversion package for the Angsi chemical enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) vessel planned to be used to boost Angsi oil and gas production by an incremental 20%. This Angsi CEOR vessel will […]
KNPC awarded PMC contract to Foster Wheeler On December 23rd, 2012, the state-owned oil refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) selected Foster Wheeler for the project management consultancy (PMC) contract of the multi-billion Clean Fuels Project (CFP). In Kuwait, the CFP project, as well as the New Refinery Project (NRP) were left on hold nearly four years […]
Jacobs completed FEED on mining Phosphate City The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) is moving into the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase for its $6 billion capital expenditure Phosphate City project. To be located in the north of Saudi Arabia, the Phosphate City project is also called Al-Khabra project as Maaden is aiming at debottlenecking the Al-Khabra phosphates mines. Through the Phosphate City […]
SINOMACH and CPC to build first Cambodia refinery On December 28th 2012, China Perfect Machinery Industry Corp (SINOMACH) and Cambodia Petrochemical Corporation (CPC) made the final investment decision (FID) to build the first crude oil refinery in the Kampong Som Petrochemical Industrial Zone along the southern coast in Cambodia. This $2.3 billion capital expenditure this […]
Total and Petronas organize double conceptual studies The french major Total and the Malaysian national oil company Petronas decided to organize parallel conceptual study for the development of the K5 gas field offshore the Sarawak province in southeastern Malaysia. Discovered in 1970, the K5 gas field is located 230 kilometers northwest Bintulu, in 80 meters of […]
M&G to invest $1 billion in PET and PTA plants in USA The Italian company Mossi & Ghisolfi Gruppo (M&G Group) made the final investment decision (FID) for to build a greenfield polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants in Corpus Christi in Texas, USA. M&G Group is a wholly owned family company with […]
Total and Oil Search build reserves for Coral Sea LNG On October 9th 2012, the french major Total and the Australian – Papua New Guinea junior Oil Search Limited (Oil Search) signed a Farm-in agreement on five natural gas onshore and offshore blocks around the Gulf of Papua. This deal came as the conclusion of […]
