final investment decision (FID)
Jordan qualified 13 contractors for Red Sea oil terminal In May 2012, Jordan Ministry of Energy and Mineral resources published the call for tender of the Aqaba Oil Terminal. Among the countries having the highest dependency on foreign energy source, Jordan imports 96% of the country’s energy consumption. Jordan holds some natural gas with the […]
Majors work on alternatives to export North Slope gas In October 2012, the major companies operating in Alaska, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and TransCanada submitted to the Alaska administration their first report for an Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project. Estimated to cost $45 billion to $65 billion capital expenditure, Alaska LNG should be one of […]
Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical target to complete Petro Rabigh Phase 2 project on time October 2012, JGC Corporation (JGC) from Japan has been awarded the expansion of the JGC Corporation (JGC)in the Petro Rabigh Phase 2 project. Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (Petro Rabigh), is a balanced joint venture between – The Saudi Arabian […]
Petronas moves on second Floating LNG unit On September 2012, JGC Corporation (JGC) from Japan and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) from South Korea signed a contract with the Malaysian national oil company Petronas for the front end engineering and design (FEED) of a new floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit. Malaysia waters is rich of […]
Chevron Rosebank to unlock one fifth of UK’s reserves Chevron and its partners Statoil from Norway, OMV from Austria and Dong Energy (Dong) from Denmark selected WorleyParson and its subsidiary Intecsea to perform the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the facilities to develop the offshore Rosebank project in UK. The Rosebank field is […]
Olam Fertilizer and Tata Chemicals to revise costs In April 2011, Olam, Tata and Gabon Government established a joint venture company called Gabon Fertilizer Company (GFC) to support the construction of a large ammonia and urea fertilizer plant. In September 2011, the Singapore-based Olam International (Olam), the Indian Tata Chemicals (Tata) and the Gabon Government selected Technip from France to perform the […]
BP low sality EOR to bring 6% additional oil recovery BP and its partners ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Shell presented at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen a new technology to significantly improve the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology by water injection. Based on the principle of low salinity water injection, BP deployes this new technology […]
Shale gas boosts OCI into Iowa biggest investment ever The Iowa Fertilizer Company (IFC) a subsidiary of the Egyptian company Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) made the final investment decision (FID) to build a world-scale fertilizer plant in Iowa, USA. OCI selected the location near Wever, in the Lee County, southeastern Iowa, to develop its greenfield […]
