Ethylene

Petronas RAPID to go ahead as part of Malaysia PIPC In making the final investment decision (FID) on the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC), the Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas is triggering the execution phase of the Refinery And Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project in the south Johor next to Singapore. With RAPID as […]

Consol and Range to supply shale gas to Ineos cracker The US-based junior companies Consol Energy Inc. (Consol) and Range Resources Corporation (RRC or Range Resources)  signed long term agreements with the Swiss registered petrochemical company Ineos Group AG (Ineos)  to import shale gas from the USA to supply its ethylene cracker at Grangemouth complex in […]

Maire Tecnimont achieves FEED work on Al-Sejeel After awarding Al-Sejeel front end engineering and design (FEED) work to Maire Tecnimont, the national companies Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) are aligning the engineering companies willing to bid for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Al-Sejeel petrochemical project in Ras Laffan […]

Gazprom creates All-Russia Gas Chemistry Center In 2011, Salavatnefteorgsintez changed name to become JSC Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat (GNS) in order to support the creation of the All-Russia Gas Chemistry Center for the expansion project on the existing Volga petrochemical complex in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. This Gazprom–led project is part of the Russian Government […]

PTTEP to add Arthit South Gas Gathering Platform The Thailand national oil company (NOC) PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Ltd (PTTEP) and its partners, Chevron from USA and Mitsui Oil Exploration Company (Mitsui or MOECO) from Japan are working on the call for tender for the Arthit south gas Gathering Platform (AGP) in the […]

Saudi Aramco to award shale gas treatment FEED The world largest company by the size of crude oil reserves, Saudi Aramco, is planning to award the front end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the gas central processing facilities to support the development of the shale gas exploration – production in three regions of Saudi […]

Petroceltic to prepare FEED on Ain Tsila development The Irish junior company Petroceltic International plc (Petroceltic) and its partners, the Algerian national oil company (NOC) Sonatrach and the Italian utility Enel, are preparing to move into the front end engineering and design (FEED) phase of the Ain Tsila discovery within the Isarene gas and condensate […]

KPC to take share in OMPL and OPAL petrochemicals The national oil companies (NOCs) Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and the Indian Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) are about to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) by which the Kuwaiti company should take share in two major petrochemical projects at Mangalore and at Daheij in […]