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Bapco to award Bahrain Refinery FEED and PMC The national oil company (NOC) Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) is currently evaluating the technical and commercial offers submitted by the engineering companies for the front end engineering and design (FEED) and the project management consultancy (PMC) contracts related to the brownfield Sitra Refinery Expansion project in Bahrain. […]
ECH to build world largest naphtha cracker at Sokhna Egypt Carbon Holdings, a privately-owned company, is working with several national export credit agencies to expand the financing of its Tahrir Petrochemical project including the world largest naphtha cracker to be installed at Ain Sokhna at the entry of the Suez Channel in Egypt. Originally estimated […]
Tanesco awards Mtwara Power Plant to Symbion-GE The Tanzania National Electrical Supply Company (Tanesco) signed a $1 billion contract with the US consortium of Symbion Power (Symbion) and the technology company General Electric International (GE) for the team of the Mtwara Power Plant and the expansion of the electrical power national grid in the south […]
Subsea 7 to subcontract Lianzi topsides to KBR The Houston-based KBR has been selected by Subsea 7 to design the topsides of Chevron Lianzi project offshore the Republic of Angola and the Republic of Congo on the west coast of Africa. The Lianzi oil and gas field is located 105 kilometers from shore in the […]
RiCoal selected Rostov for its Petrochemical complex The Russian joint venture RiCoal Chemical Coal Plant (RiCoal) is planning to build a world-scale Coal-to-Olefin and petrochemical complex in Rostov-on-Don in the south of Russia. Estimated to require $2.5 billion capital expenditure, RiCoal selected Rostov-on-Don location because of available coal and natural gas available in the region and […]
GE to power pre-salt semisubmersible drilling vessels The Brazilian national oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Sete Brazil Participaçoes SA (Sete) and its contractor Keppel Fels do Brazil SA (Keppel) have selected GE’s Power Conversion electrical solutions to power and propel the first series of six semisubmersible drilling rigs. Petrobras is the operator imposing the key requirements […]
Technip and Daewoo in progress on Sarawak FLNG In June 2012, Petronas Floating LNG 1 (Labuan) Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) selected the Technip-Daewoo Consortium (TDC) to design and build the first floating unit to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Malaysia. This Malaysia FLNG1 is to be installed 180 kilometers offshore […]
PCIC Middle East Conference to take place with ADIPEC on Nov 12th & 13th 2012 Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) organizes its 15th edition on November 11th to 14th 2012 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) in UAE. With more than 1,500 exhibitions and 45,000 attendees, ADIPEC is the largest exhibition in […]
