Engineering Procurement and Construction
Badra Export pipeline and Infield pipeline awarded soon Gazprom continues to award engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the different packages of its $2 billion Badra development project. Badra oil field is located in the Wasit Province at the Southeast of Iraq. Badra is part of these giant fields that the Iraq Government intends to develop to increase […]
CB&I to broaden energy portfolio from LNG to Nuclear July 30th, 2012, CB&I and The Shaw Group (Shaw) announced to have closed a deal by which CB&I will acquire The Shaw Group. Shaw is a 25 years old engineering and services company well established as global provider of: Engineering and construction – Technology – Fabrication […]
Definition BOT is the acronym of Build-Own-Transfer or Build-Operate-Transfer. BOT is a business term which defines a specific three stages contract for greenfield projects. Comments Usually an end user willing to build a new plant from greenfield goes along the investment decision process until the final investment decision (FID). Assuming that the project is profitable and […]
$600 million Storage facility on Red Sea coast With the Shoaiba storage facility, Saudi Aramco expects to facilitate the distribution of the transportation fuels and petrochemical bulk across the different regions of its local market in Saudi Arabia. These transportation fuels and petrochemical bulk include mainly Gasoline, Diesel, and Benzene with a rather unbalanced consumption between Central, […]
Definition FID is in the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical industry the acronym of Final Investment Decision. Comments FID must not be confused with FEED which is another acronym commonly used also in the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical industry and stands for Front End Engineering and Design. Anyway both are in close connection since the FEED prepares the […]
Methanex to invest $550 million to benefit from low shale gas prices Methanex produces about 3.8 million t/y of Methanol and is the world’s largest supplier of Methanol to major international markets with production units in Canada, Chile, Egypt, New Zealand and Trinidad. Methanol is produces mainly out of natural gas, therefore the access to reliable and […]
ExxonMobil to boost oil sand production in Canada Through Imperial Oil Ltd (Imperial Oil), ExxonMobil is planning to double upstream production capacity in Canada in the period 2010 – 2020 supported by $30 to $40 billion capital expenditure. Imperial Oil is an ExxonMobil company based in Calgary and operating oil and gas production, refining and petrochemical […]
Definition Pipelay Vessel or Pipe Laying Vessel refers to the vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry to install subsea all the connecting infrastructures such as pipelines, umbilicals or electrical cables Comments These subsea infrastructures may be installed to connect floating units on the surface to the seabed, or from shore to floating […]
