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Mzia successful appraisal to justify BG two LNG trains The BG Group (BG) and its partner Ophir Energy (Ophir), both from UK, are pilling up natural gas reserves along their on going appraisal campaign offshore the east coast of Africa to the point to double the size of their liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in […]
BASF awards Fluor Ludwigshafen TDI EPCM contract On February 19th 2013, the Germany-based BASF chemical company selected the Fluor from the USA to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the new toluene diisocyanate (TDI) production in the Ludwigshafen chemical complex. Ludwigshafen is already one of the largest chemical complex in the world […]
OOC and Takamul to build world-scale storage terminal On January 2013, Oman Oil Company (OOC) and Takamul Investment Company (Takamul), both companies from the Sultanate of Oman, established a joint venture to build one of the world largest oil storage terminal at Raz Markaz in Oman. Called Oman Tank Terminal Company LLC (OTTCO), this new […]
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 […]
