Project Feasibility study
Definition Turnaround is a planned shutdown of any plant where a large number of activities, in terms of various of discipline have to be executed in a specified / predefined duration. Comments In the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical industry most of the plants are designed and built to last more than 30 years and […]
After ExxonMobil and ENI, Rosneft extends its domino strategy to Statoil Rosneft and Statoil signed a cooperation agreement to jointly explore offshore and onshore fields in the Russian sections The cooperation agreement also provides Rosneft with an opportunity to acquire interests in selected Statoil exploration licences and assets in the North Sea as well as […]
Camisea gas for the $3.5 billion Peru Southern Project Brazilian and Peruvian Governments have approved the Camisea Southern gas pipeline project, the Integrated Petrochemical Complex planned by Braskem and PetroPeru will get the necessary ethane feedstock. Odebrecht will lead the Brazilian consortium to build the $5 billion capital expenditure Peru’s Southern Andean Gas Pipeline from the Camisea gas fields to Quillabamba to supply a […]
UOP provides Propane Dehydrogenation Technology Zhangjiagang Yangzi River Petrochemical Co. Ltd is a joint venture between: – New Oriental Energy Co., – Huachang Chemical Co. – Feixang Chemical Co (a Rhodia‘s subsidiary). Zhangjiagang is located in the Jiangsu province, China, which is about 110 km from Shanghai. This large scale project is to meet the growing demand in […]
Versalis (ENI) and Novamont innovate with the Porto Torres bio-chemical complex Matrica Spa is a 50:50 joint venture between Versalis, previously called Polimeri Europa (the biggest Italian chemical company, a subsidiary of Eni), and Novamont (a global market leader in biodegradable plastics). Matrica has the mission to design, build and operate chemical plants using vegetable oil […]
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) will spend $4 billion in capital expenditure for this ethylene and propylene production facilities in Freeport, Texas, USA. This Olefins project illustrates the previous news about the consequences of the Shale gas to provide long term feedstock at very competitive price to the Downstream activities. As a good example of the relocation into USA of the petrochemical industry, this new ethylene […]
Mariner is the first field to be developed from the $9.6 billion capital expenditure Mariner & Bressay project located in the UK North Sea Because the offshore ultra heavy crude oil is one of the most challenging exploration & production of the Oil&Gas sector, Statoil decided to proceed step by step. Mariner will go first and Bressay will follow one […]
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), India and ConocoPhillips, USA, have signed on March 30th a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-operate and develop the shale gas resources in India, North America and elsewhere besides deep water opportunities in Eastern offshore India. The unprecedented growth of shale gas in the USA has generated new hopes […]
