Offshore technology
PDVSA to increase heavy crude oil refining capacity The consortium made of Hyundai Engineering & Construction Corporation Ltd (Hyundai) from South Korea and Wison Engineering Corporation Ltd (Wison) from China selected Technip from France to supply two hydrogen reformers for the Venezuela national oil company (NOC) Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) Puerto La Cruz Refinery project. […]
Petronas FLNG-2 to require MEG additional module The El Dorado, Arkansas-based, Murphy Oil Corporation (Murphy) and the Malaysian national oil company Petronas are revising upward the design of their floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel for the development of the Block H, offshore Sabah in Malaysia. Since 2007, Murphy accumulates natural gas discoveries in the Block […]
Sabic and MRC to build the world largest MMA plant The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) and the Mitsubishi Rayon Company (MRC) are preparing the call for tender for two chemical facilities to be added in Sabic al-Jubail existing chemical plant. In August 2009, Sabic and Mitsubishi Rayon had signed a letter of intend (LOI) to prepare […]
ILF won South-Sudan export pipeline feasibility study The German-based ILF Consulting Engineers (ILF) has been awarded by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining a contract to perform the feasibility study on export pipeline projects out of the Republic of South Sudan. By this contract ILF is expected to analyze and compare the alternative routes to export […]
Sempra at final stage for Cameron LNG FERC approval The California-based company Sempra Energy (Sempra) and its partners, GDF-Suez from France, Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi) and Mitsui & Co, Ltd (Mitsui) from Japan , are reaching the final stage of the complex process approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its Cameron LNG project […]
Shah Deniz-2 partners selected TAP over Nabucco The Shah Deniz-2 partners, BP from UK, Total from France and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) have preferred the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project over Nabucco to export their natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe. At the scale of these giant projects, TAP offers the shortest and simplest […]
Exxon and Imperial apply for West Coast LNG plant The super major company, ExxonMobil Corp (ExxonMobil) and its Canadian partner Imperial Oil (Imperial) submitted an application to the National Energy Board (NEB) to export up to 30 million t/y of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the British Columbia West Coast to Asia. With this initiative, […]
SCOP awards Technip Karbala Refinery PMC contract The Iraq national oil company (NOC) State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) selected the French engineering company Technip to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services on the Karbala Refinery project in the center of Iraq. The Karbala Refinery project is part of the Iraq Government to invest between […]
