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The LNG eldorado of Yamal Gydan Peninsula Novatek has huge reserves on the Gydan peninsula, namely the Geofizicheskoye and Utrenneye fields, which combined hold some 7 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) of C1+C2 reserves, which is comparable to those of South Tambeyskoye field, the base for Yamal-LNG. The Geofizicheskoye and Utrenneye fields may generate […]
Shell confirms Monaca Ethane Cracker on projects list After reassessing its projects list in regards of its investment capabilities, the super major Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) is confirming its Pennsylvania Petrochemical Complex project and the related Monaca Ethane Cracker to stay in its projects list. Instead, Shel is reconsidering the envisaged gas to liquid (GTL) project on Gulf Coast. This […]
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 […]
Gazprom and Sibur ink MOU for Belogorsk project The Russian companies Gazprom and Sibur materialized in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) their intention to build a gas processing plant (GPP) and a petrochemical complex at Belogorsk in the Amur Region of the Far East Russia. This project is a consequence of Eastern Gas Program approved […]
ORPIC Liwa Platics Project to reach FEED stage The Oman Refinery and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) confirmed to have called for tender the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for its $3.6 billion petrochemical complex to produce plastics in Al-Liwa, close to Sohar in the north of Oman. To be integrated to the Sohar […]
Bechtel wins Ras Laffan Petrochemicals PMC contract The national oil company (NOC) Qatar Petroleum (QP) and the joint venture Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) selected the US-based engineering company Bechtel to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for the Ras Laffan Petrochemicals Project in Qatar. In this partnership with QP, QAPCO is itself a 80/20 joint venture between […]
Ethydco selected Toyo and ENPPI for Alexandria PE The local Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives Company (Ethydco) selected Toyo Engineering Company (Toyo) from Japan and the Egyptian Engineering for the Petroleum and Process Industries (ENPPI) company to build the largest polyethylene plant in Egypt. With a capacity of 400,000 t/y of polyethylene, this greenfield unit is […]
Hoegh-KBR to submit competitive pre-FEED to PTTEP The Norwegian Hoegh LNG and the Houston-based KBR are completing a pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) work for the Cash-Maple FLNG project to developed by the Thailand national oil company PTTEP. The Cash-Maple FLNG project is related to the exclusive license owned by PTTEP on the offshore blocks AC/RL7, AC/P54 […]
