Petrochemical
KPI selects Sinopec Engineering for PDH and PP units The national company Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industry Inc Ltd (KPI) selected Sinopec Engineering Group (SEG) for the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning (EPCC) of the propane de-hydrogenation (PDH) and the polypropylene plants. This project is part of the petrochemical development program of the Republic of Kazakhstan to […]
Petronas calls for competitive FEED on Sepat project Since 2010, the national oil company (NOC), Petrolian Nasional Bhd (Petronas), has decided to put efforts to develop marginal fields offshore Malaysia. Around the Malaysian peninsula, Petronas identified 106 marginal oil fields representing more than 580 million barrels of crude oil that it cannot ignore any longer. These […]
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 […]
Petronas calls for tender RAPID Package 8 EPCC The Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas has sent the invitation to bid (ITB) to the pre-qualified engineering companies for the Package 8 of the Refinery And Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project despite the one year delay announced earlier. With an estimated $20 billion capital expenditure, the […]
Oman selects Sohar for a $3.6 billion Plastics Project The Oman Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) took the opportunity of the Polyolefins Plastics Arabia Conference organized in Muscat in May 2013 to unveil the details of a greenfield world-scale petrochemical complex to be located in Sohar. As most of the Gulf countries, the Sultanate […]
Fujian Shenyuan selects Air Liquide for coal gasification End of May 2013, Fujian Shenyuan New Materials Co. Ltd (Fujian Shenyuan) selected Air Liquide to build, own and operate a production unit of industrial gases for its Lianjiang caprolactam project in the Fujian Province, China. Fujian Shenyuan is one of the largest producer of nylon fibers […]
Toyo-Setal awarded ComperJ hydrogen facility EPC The national oil company (NOC), Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), selected the joint venture Toyo-Setal Empreendimentos Ltda (Toyo-Setal) to design and build the new hydrogen facility for the integrated refinery and petrochemical Complexo Petroquimico do Rio de Janeiro, the so called ComperJ project. To be located at Itaborai, in the State of […]
Bluegrass Pipeline to feed Gulf Coast Petrochemicals The Oklahoma-based Williams and the Houston-headquartered Boardwalk Pipelines Partners (Boardwalk) signed a letter of intend (LOI) to form a joint venture on building the Bluegrass Pipeline project in USA to connect the Marcellus and Utica giant shale gas fields in the northeast to the petrochemical industry lying along […]
