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ECH to build world largest naphtha cracker at Sokhna Egypt Carbon Holdings, a privately-owned company, is working with several national export credit agencies to expand the financing of its Tahrir Petrochemical project including the world largest naphtha cracker to be installed at Ain Sokhna at the entry of the Suez Channel in Egypt. Originally estimated […]
PCIC Middle-East published 2014 Technical Program The next Petroleum & Chemical Industry Conference (PCIC) Middle-East released its technical program for the next edition to take place at the Abu Dhabi InterContinental Hotel on February 3rd and 4th, 2014 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Organized with the support of the Petroleum & Chemical Industry Committee […]
Wood County on line to host Ascent Complex project The Brazilian companies Odebrecht and Braskem are currently investigating the opportunity to develop the Appalachian Shale Cracker Enterprise (Ascent) Petrochemical complex project at Parkersburg in the Wood County of West Virginia, USA. Joining Shell with its Appalachia Ethane Cracker project, Odebrecht and Braskem are exploring a new business model in […]
OGC to invest $3.5 billion in LPG and NGL projects The national Oman Gas Company SAOC (OGC) is preparing a strategic shift from its historical midstream activities toward liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and natural gas liquids (NGL) extraction and transformation for petrochemical use. In 2000, OGC was established by Royal Decree to develop the infrastructures across […]
PTTGC – Pertamina to sign Java Complex joint venture The Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical plc (PTTGC) and the Indonesian national oil company (NOC) Pertamina are in final talks to establish a joint venture to build from greenfield a world-scale petrochemical complex in Java, Indonesia. This process is following up a heads of agreement (HOA) signed […]
Oman Oil and IPIC to award Duqm Refinery FEED soon The national Oman Oil Company (Oman Oil or OOC) and the Abu Dhabi sovereign founds International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) are reaching the final evaluation stage of the commercial and technical bids submitted by international engineering companies to carry out the front end engineering and […]
CNPC and Total to double production with Halfaya-3 The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) and its partners, Total from France, Petronas from Malaysia and the local South Oil Company (SOC) confirm to target the plateau production of the Halfaya oil field in the south of Iraq by 2017 as originally defined. Halfaya oil […]
Total to upsize Alberta Joslyn oil sand project by 50% After making the final investment decision (FID) on the Athabasca Fort Hills oil sand project in joint venture with Suncor Energy (Suncor), the French major company Total and its partners Suncor, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) and Inpex, are considering to revise upward the capacity of its […]