Offshore technology
$2 billion Nasiriyah and Bin Umar Oil Depots delayed The national oil company (NOC) State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) has announced to postpone the tenders opening ceremony for the $2 billion oil storage depots project planned in the south of Iraq. Since the license rounds in 2009 and 2010 during which Baghdad Government awarded […]
Shell calls for bid St Joseph CEOR Pilot Vessel project The international oil company (IOC) Royal Dutch Shell is calling for bid a three year engineering contract to design and develop a pilot vessel to provide chemical enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) at the St Joseph oil field offshore the State of Sabah in Malaysia. This […]
Foster Wheeler won Statoil Mongstad feasibility study The national oil company (NOC) Statoil ASA (Statoil) sanctioned a feasibility study contract to the Swiss-based engineering company Foster Wheeler to upgrade the Mongstad Refinery in Norway. Norway is hosting two refineries, in Mongstad operated by Statoil and in Slagen owned by ExxonMobil. Located on the Norwegian west coast […]
Shell makes final decision for Carmon Creek Project After the joint venture Suncor-Total which decided to proceed with their multibillion Fort Hills oil sands mining project in Athabasca region, Shell is making the final investment decision (FID) with its Carmon Creek oil sands project in Alberta. The two mega projects, by their size and new […]
JGC in the lead for Ras Tanura Offsites & Utilities EPC The Japanese engineering company JGC Corporation (JGC) is leading the discussions with Saudi Aramco for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of the Offsites & Utilities in Ras Tanura Clean Fuel and Aromatics project. Located on the East Coast within the Eastern Province, […]
Petrofac and Bonatti awarded Alrar Extension Project The London-based engineering company Petrofac and its Italian partner Bonatti have been awarded by the national oil company (NOC) Sonatrach the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the extension of the Alrar gas field in Eastern Algeria. With this Alrar Gas Field Extension project, Sonatrach is aiming at maintaining […]
Suncor to operate Athabasca Fort Hills mining project Suncor Energy (Suncor) from Canada and its partners, Total from France and Teck Resources Ltd (Teck) from Canada, made the final investment decision (FID) to develop Fort Hills oil sands mine project in Athabasca at the northeast of Alberta, Canada. This decision comes in a context where […]
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 […]
