
petrochemical complex
Brunei Key Projects and Business Highlights The Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam (Brunei) is the largest net exporter of oil and gas in Asia with 125,000 barrels per day (b/d). The first oil was discovered in Brunei in 1899 near Bandar Seri Begawan city and in 1925 Shell created Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) to explore and develop the Seria field onshore in […]
Brazil Key Projects and Highlights In 2012, Brazil and its flagship, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), had to face a reality regarding their capacity to deliver on time all the fleets of drilling ships, exploration and production floating units and services vessels in respect with the local content requirements. Awarding contracts to shipyards not yet even built […]
Azerbaijan Key Projects and Business Highlights With giant projects such as Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG), the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, and the Shah Deniz Phase-2, Azerbaijan has joined the largest producing countries of natural gas. The reserves of the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan have attracted all the major companies BP, Inpex, Chevron, Itochu, Hess, Statoil , Total or Turkish Petroleum among others. […]
Argentina Key Projects and Business Highlights Argentina is one these countries with oil and gas reserves among the largest in the world but have hard to stand self-sufficient in energy. Since 2007, the export tax scheme for oil and gas was conceived primarily to allocate the local production to the domestic market before exporting elsewhere. In doing […]
Key Projects and Business Highlights If the global economy is running from one dip to another dip wondering which bubble will cause the next one, the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical sector is flying over all these issues with only one concern, how to go faster? This question comes back from all the corners of […]
Maaden awarded first EPC contract for Ammonia plant The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) has awarded the first engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of its giant Phosphates City Project to the South Korean engineering company Daelim Industrial. This first EPC contract is part of the $6 to $7 billion capital expenditure fertilizer project to be developed by the […]
Fluor at work on FEED for Sasol US Mega Projects The South African company Sasol is currently proceeding to the selection of the license and technologies required for the olefins and derivatives production units of its integrated gas-to-liquid (GTL) and ethane cracker complex to be built at Lake Charles in Louisiana, USA. With an estimated […]
Statoil to consider FPSO for Castberg (Skrugard-Havis) Since the Skrugard and Havis project has been renamed as Johan Castberg, some significant changes have happened to justify Statoil from Norway and its partners, Eni from Italy and Petoro from Norway, to rethink the conceptual design of the project into a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) […]