petrochemical complex
QP and Shell Petrochemical project named Al-Karaana Qatar Petroleum and Shell made significant decisions in November regarding their world-scale petrochemical complex in the Ras Laffan Industrial Zone in northern Qatar. The Minister of Energy and Industry, Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada and Ben Van Beurden, Shell Chemicals Executive Vice President, during a meeting in Doha, […]
Global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier Foster Wheeler had its headquarter in New York City, New Jersey, USA, until 2007 to relocate it in Geneva in Switzerland since then as Foster Wheeler AG (Foster Wheeler).The actual Foster Wheeler company was established in 1927 as the result of the merger between the Power […]
Foster Wheeler awarded EPC management contract On September 2012, the chemical company Lanxess AG (Lanxess) decided to build the world largest ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) plant at Changzhou, in the Jiangsu Province, China. Actually based in Leverkusen, Germany, Lanxess was established in 2005 as a separate company with a new brand from the spin off of […]
Shell to boost Pulau Bukom ethylene cracker by 20% On November 2012, Shell made the final investment decision (FID) for the debottlenecking of its petrochemical complex in Pulau Bukom, in Bukom Island, Singapore. Identified as Shell Eastern Petrochemical Complex (SEPC) project, Shell started up this petrochemical complex in March 2010. Because of the increasing demand in South East Asia, Shell is […]
Shell to invest $20 billion in LNG and GTL for 2012 – 15 During Investors day in London, the major Royal Dutch Shell plc ( Shell) presented last week, its vision on the gas future global market and its strategy to sustain a profitable growth and market leadership in this sector. Compared with the other major […]
Global Leader Hyundai Group was established in 1947 as a construction company and moved into shipbuilding only in 1970 with an order for two crude tankers while the shipyard was not yet existing. In 1972, Hyundai started to build a shipyard in Dusan and two years later, in 1974, the two tankers were delivered. Then […]
Jizan Refinery to be shared between seven companies Saudi Aramco made a decisive step forward in selecting the engineering companies to build the $7 billion Jizan refinery and terminal project. To balance its economical development between its different provinces, Saudi Arabia through Saudi Aramco had selected the city of Jizan, also called Jazan, on the southern coast […]
$50 billion of business opportunities in 250 projects On November 19th 2012, the Project Smart Explorer data base reports $50 billion of business opportunities within the 250 active projects in pursuit in the oil and gas and petrochemical industry. These business opportunities are related for: – $18 billion to Electrical products and systems (Switchgears, transformers, motors and generators, cables, lighting, power systems, etc…) – […]
