EPC
The Vopak Way: 75 global operational standards Headquartered in Rotterdam in The Netherlands, Royal Vopak (Vopak) is the world largest independent storage and handling operator of oil and gas and petrochemical products. Established in 1999 from the merger between Pakhoed and Van Ommeren, Vopak operates 84 terminals in 31 countries with a global storage capacity […]
SABIC and Vopak to build $400 million storage facility Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and Royal Vopak (Vopak) signed Heads of Agreement (HoA) to form a joint venture to build new storage facilities in the Al Jubail Terminal on the east coast of Saudi Arabia. The joint venture between SABIC and Vopak should be established under […]
Cameron and Schlumberger go for integrated solutions Cameron and the leading oilfields services company Schlumberger have decided to create OneSubsea as a joint venture to merge their subsea activities in the oil and gas sector. Through OneSubsea, Cameron and Schlumberger intend to develop and manufacture new dedicated products, systems and services for the subsea applications. Headquartered […]
QP and Shell Petrochemical project named Al-Karaana Qatar Petroleum and Shell made significant decisions in November regarding their world-scale petrochemical complex in the Ras Laffan Industrial Zone in northern Qatar. The Minister of Energy and Industry, Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada and Ben Van Beurden, Shell Chemicals Executive Vice President, during a meeting in Doha, […]
Global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier Foster Wheeler had its headquarter in New York City, New Jersey, USA, until 2007 to relocate it in Geneva in Switzerland since then as Foster Wheeler AG (Foster Wheeler).The actual Foster Wheeler company was established in 1927 as the result of the merger between the Power […]
Foster Wheeler awarded EPC management contract On September 2012, the chemical company Lanxess AG (Lanxess) decided to build the world largest ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) plant at Changzhou, in the Jiangsu Province, China. Actually based in Leverkusen, Germany, Lanxess was established in 2005 as a separate company with a new brand from the spin off of […]
Engineering Solutions…Delivering Results Established in Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1889 as a bridges construction company, Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I) moved into liquid storage structures with the development of the steam railways at the beginning of the 20th century in USA, South America and Middle East. CB&I made decisive move into the oil and gas […]
Shell to boost Pulau Bukom ethylene cracker by 20% On November 2012, Shell made the final investment decision (FID) for the debottlenecking of its petrochemical complex in Pulau Bukom, in Bukom Island, Singapore. Identified as Shell Eastern Petrochemical Complex (SEPC) project, Shell started up this petrochemical complex in March 2010. Because of the increasing demand in South East Asia, Shell is […]
