
EPC
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 […]
Taipei spots Petrochemicals as a strategic sector December 2011 – In an effort to maximize the economic value of petrochemical materials and minimize carbon emission, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) of Tawain set up the High Value Petrochemical Industry Promotion Office (PIPO) with the missions to: – Establish R&D centers – Form information platform for the strategic alliances, […]
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 […]
$8.9 billion petrochemical projects awarded on H1-2012 Middle-East countries and especially Saudi Arabia have been extremely active on the Downstream sector during the first half 2012 in awarding $8.9 billion worth of petrochemical projects. Compared with last year this amount of capital expenditure represents 88% increase as only $1 billion had been awarded on the […]
Technip and NPCC win Upper Zakum 750 EPC1 After completing the front end engineering and design (FEED) work, Technip and its local partner National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) have been awarded the first EPC package called EPC1 of the Upper Zakum development project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Upper Zakum project is developed by Abu Dhabi’s Zakum Development Company (ZADCO), a joint […]