Engineering Procurement and Construction
Definition Petro Arctic is a Norwegian association to promote the potential suppliers willing to participate to the development and operations of the offshore oil and gas projects in North Norway and the Barents Sea. Comments Petro Arctic was created in 1997 to involve local companies in the Snøhvit LNG project. Since then the mission of Petro […]
OMV to replace ExxonMobil in Aasta Hansteen partnership with Statoil and ConocoPhillips Aasta Hansteen field was previously named Luva and is one of the largest field in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) with a development planned to cost some $5.6 billion (NOK 34 billion) of capital expenditure. Aasta Hansteen is the start of deepwater development in the Norwegian Sea and […]
Nizhnekamskneftekhim awards basic to CB&I Lummus OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) selected CB&I Lummus (CB&I) to perform front end engineering and design (FEED) of a new olefins complex in Russia. This new petrochemical complex will be located in the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. Earlier, on April, 2012, NKNK and CB&I had signed a License Agreement and Basic […]
Dow and Saudi Aramco $20 billion Sadara takes shape Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara) is a joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). Once complete, Sadara petrochemical complex will be one of the world’s largest integrated chemical complex and the largest ever built in a single phase. The facility […]
Sabic expands Kayan complex into strategic chemicals Saudi Kayan (Kayan) is an affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) to run and operate one of the largest petrochemical complex in the world located in the Jubail Industrial City. Sabic designed it to reduce Saudi economy reliance on crude oil in bringing up to the market high added […]
Definition HVDC is the acronym of High Voltage Direct Current. HVDC refers to a technology to transmit high electric power across long distances, typically several hundreds kilometers Comments The modern form of HVDC transmission uses technology developed extensively in the 1930s in Sweden by ABB. Early commercial installations included one in Russia in 1951 between Moscow […]
Sibur kicks off Russian largest petrochemical complex If Russia is among the biggest producer and exporter of oil and gas, Russia is also a net importer of petrochemical products. In the same way as Russia has multiplied strategic alliances with western companies, such as ExxonMobil, Statoil, ENI, Total to boost its upstream sector, Russia is also […]
PetroRabigh II and Sadara to double Saudi Aramco petrochemical production The PetroRabigh expansion, or PetroRabigh II, is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and the Japanese Sumitomo Chemical while the greenfield project Sadara actually under construction is a joint venture with Dow Chemicals. But the both projects are designed to almost double Aramco’s chemicals manufacturing […]
