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Smart Automation 2.0 to Create in China In the years 2000s, China was paddling hard to become the “World factory” with its competitive advantage of labor costs lower than the rest of the world to support its economical growth and provide jobs to its billion inhabitants. In that purpose all the Chinese Provinces rivaled from […]
Tecnicas Reunidas won Jizan Gasification Offsites The national oil company (NOC) Saudi Aramco selected the Spanish-based engineering company Tecnicas Reunidas for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Offsites and Utilities package of the Jizan Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Power Plant project on the southwest coast of Saudi Arabia. The Jizan Gasification […]
Woodside signed agreement on Grassy Point LNG The Australian company Woodside Petroleum (Woodside) and the Government of British Columbia (BC) signed an agreement to open a greenfield liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Grassy Point along the west coast of Canada. This Grassy Point project comes at the end of a list of more than […]
Ningbo Fortune selects UOP technology for propylene As an Oriental Energy Corporation Ltd (Oriental Energy) company, Ningbo Fortune Petrochemical Corporation Ltd (Ningbo Fortune) selected the US-based UOP-Honeywell technology for a greenfield project to produce propylene at the port of Ningbo, in the Zhejiang Province, China. Previously named Zhangjiagang Oriental Energy, the company became Oriental Energy in […]
Sui Southern Gas in $1.4 billion deal with Engro Vopak The Pakistan midstream Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) is in final talks with the joint venture Engro Vopak Terminal Limited (EVTL) to build and operate a large greenfield liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at Port Qasim near Karachi in Pakistan. In parallel the Pakistan […]
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 […]
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 […]
Enterprise and Oiltanking signed 50 years Agreement The US-based midstream companies Enterprise Products Partners LP (Enterprise) and Oiltanking Partners partners LP (Oiltanking) entered in a 50 years agreement to support the additional expansion of the existing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) terminal sited along the Houston Ship Channel in Texas, USA. By this agreement, Oiltanking will […]