fertilizer
KBR won EPC contract for Agrium Lone Star Project The Texas-based engineering company KBR has been awarded the Lone Star Project by the Canadian fertilizer specialist Agrium to debottleneck its ammonia production unit located in Borger, Texas USA. Through Cominco Fertilizers Ltd (Cominco), Agrium started operations in 1933 and opened the Borger facility in 1966 to […]
Dangote awarded PMC and EPCM contracts to EIL The privately-owned Dangote Group selected the Indian state-owned engineering company Engineers India Ltd (EIL) to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the $9 billion refinery and petrochemical complex to be built at Olokola in Nigeria. This EPCM contract comes on the top of the project […]
Haldor Topsoe wins Socar Sumgayit Ammonia Licence The national State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (Socar) selected the Danish catalysis expert Haldor Topsoe to provide its first integrated fertilizer project in Azerbaijan with its ammonia technology. With a budget of $650 million capital expenditure, the Republic of Azerbaijan has made the final investment decision (FID) […]
Tiung Biru and Jambaran gas fields reach FEED stage The super major ExxonMobil and the national oil company (NOC) Pertamina have agreed to prepare the call for tender for the front end engineering and design (FEED) work to develop the Tiung Biru and Jambaran gas fields at Cepu block across Central Java and East Java […]
Nigeria to restore refining capacities with private loans On September 4th 2013, the Nigeria private Dangote Group (Dangote) sealed a financial agreement with 12 banks for a $3.3 billion loan to build a greenfield refinery and petrochemical complex in Olokola in the south of Nigeria. With $8 billion capital expenditure, this $3.3 billion loan will […]
Will Sinopec trigger Indonesia new refineries projects? The world largest refining company Sinopec from China has decided to build the largest oil storage terminal in Southeast Asia at the Batam Free Trade Zone in Indonesia. With a storage capacity of 16 million barrels of crude oil and refined products Sinopec is planning to invest $850 million […]
Iraq Key Projects and Business Highlights The first half 2013 saw positive changes in Iraq with all the companies increasing the production of crude oil and natural gas, and with most of the international oil companies (IOCs) such as BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Petronas, Shell, Total proceeding to successful diplomatic moves either in signing farm-in agreements […]
Cameroon – Congo – Equatorial Guinea – Gabon Key Projects and Business Highlights On the Southern part of the Gulf of Guinea, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon saw major projects moving forward on the first half 2013 at the initiatives of major and junior companies involving Chevron, Compania Nacional de Petroleos de Guinea Ecuatorial (GE Petrol), […]
