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YPFB awards Samsung first ammonia and urea plant Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Bolivia’s state-owned oil company, sent to Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd (Samsung) a notification of award (NOA) for a $843 million fertilizer plant. YPFB is planning to build this fertilizer facility in the city of Entre Rios, in the State of Cochabamba, in Bolivia as part […]
Statoil awards on time Mariner and Bressay FEEDs Statoil awards Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contracts to develop the $9.6 billion capital expenditure Mariner and Bressay according to plan. Mariner and Bressay are very similar projects to produce ultra heavy crude oil, offshore on the North Sea shallow water of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) but with different working interests. In Mariner: – Statoil owns 61.5% […]
Saudi Aramco and Sabic gives momentum to GES+ Saudi Aramco initiated the concept of General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) initiative in order to enhance the level of competence of the local engineering companies and contractors and to contribute to create more value within Saudi Arabia. Indirectly the General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) is to increase the […]
Ibn Sina to move ahead in high performance chemicals Saudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) and its partners in Ibn Sina joint venture, Celanese Corp (Celanese) and Duke Energy Corp., have decided to reactivated the Polyacetal (POM) project in Al Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. Ibn Sina is the common name of the joint venture called […]
Definition Consortium refers in the oil and gas and petrochemical industry to a group of individuals or legal entities or a combination of individuals and legal entities which mobilizes their respective resources for the accomplishment of a task going beyond the capabilities of each member of the group. Comments In a consortium, the legal entities […]
South Sudan oil export pipeline to come thru Kenya Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho) increases its foothold in East Africa in leading the $3 billion South Sudan oil export pipeline project and in signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Republic of Kenya. In South Sudan, the oil revenues represent 98% of the country […]
Definition Conceptual Study stands in the oil and gas and petrochemical industry at the very early stage of a greenfield project to identify all the possibilities and conditions to develop this project. Comments During the conceptual study, the engineers will: – Investigate the multiple technologies to be used – Evaluate the costs of each solution, especially […]
$185 million program to boost production by 30% MEG Energy Corp (MEG) from Calgary in Alberta, Canada, announced last July to revise upward its Christina Lake oil field production enhancement program called RISER. Christina Lake is an in situ oil sands field located 150 kilometers south of Fort McMurray in the northeast Alberta. Christina Lake […]
