
Front End Engineering and Design (FEED)
To be “Leading Oil and Gas Multinational of Choice” Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) was established in 1974 as the national oil company (NOC) of Malaysia. As a Malaysian Government wholly-owned company, Petronas has fully integrated oil and gas operations in a broad spectrum of the oil and gas upstream–midstream–downstream value-chain. Upstream, Petronas’s activities include the exploration, development and […]
Versalis joins Basf, Itochu and PTT to partner in Rapid Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) completed in September a joint venture with the Italian company Versalis, the chemical branch of Eni for the refinery and petrochemical integrated development (RAPID) project in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia. With this partnership, Petronas and Versalis will design, develop and construct the elastomers […]
Petrobras to build $3 billion Gas-to-Chemicals complex Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) from Brazil selected Foster Wheeler AG (Foster Wheeler) from Switzerland for a greenfield world-scale Gas-to-Chemical complex to be built at Linhares, in Esperito Santo State, southeast Brazil. Estimated around $3 billion capital expenditure, the Linhares Gas-to-Chemical complex is identified as UFN-IV, standing for the Unit of Nitrogen Fertilizer […]
Saudi Aramco to award Clean Fuel project at year end In April 2011, Saudi Aramco had selected Foster Wheeler and A. Al-Saihati, A. Fattani & O. Al-Othman Consulting Engineering Co., (SOFCON) for the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) of the Riyadh Refinery Clean Transportation Fuel project. In parallel of the FEED contract, Foster Wheeler and SOFCON had been awarded the Project […]
Jizan refinery EPC bids deadline closed on Sept 15th Saudi Aramco is willing to proceed now without further delay with the $7 billion Jazan refinery project. Also called Jizan, the Jazan refinery is the master piece of Saudi Arabia Jazan scheme. To develop the economy and wealth in southern Saudi Arabia, close to the Yemen border, […]
Adma-Opco evaluates bids for Umm al Lulu EPC-1, Umm al Lulu EPC-2, Sarb EPC-3 and Sarb EPC-4 Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Adma-Opco), a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is working on commercial bid for the development of the Umm al Lulu and Satah al Rasboot (Sarb) offshore oil and gas fields. In Abu Dhabi, Adma-Opco is the national […]
ConocoPhillips to merge Offshore experience and Cascade LNG know-how into its first Floating LNG In 1969 the ConocoPhillips Company (ConocoPhillips) pioneered liquefaction of natural gas (LNG) with its first LNG facility in Kenai LNG, Alaska, USA. Then ConocoPhillips optimized its process with a series of world-scale onshore LNG projects, Atlantic LNG, Egyptian LNG, Darwin LNG, Equatorial LNG and Angola […]
Statoil FSU to strengthen Heidrun oil loading system Statoil and its partners, Petoro, ConocoPhillips and Eni, in the Heidrun oil and gas field awarded a new permanent floating storage unit (FSU) to the South Korean engineering company Samsung Heavy Industry (Samsung). Heidrun is an oil and gas field located in the Norwegian North Sea discovered by ConocoPhillips […]