Refinery
Petroleum Products Pipeline SA won first fuel pipeline The Petroleum Products Pipeline SA (3PL SA) has been awarded the construction of the first fuel pipeline in Cameroon. The Petroleum Products Pipeline SA is a joint venture between African investors let by the West Africa Investment Corporation (WAICO SA) and South Korean companies. WAICO SA is already […]
Shell Batangas LNG project to go to FEED stage The Royal Dutch Shell Plc (Shell) is moving on the front end engineering and design (FEED) stage on the Batangas LNG import terminal project in Philippines. Working on this project for some years, Shell completed the feasibility study to build a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) […]
PDVSA to increase heavy crude oil refining capacity The consortium made of Hyundai Engineering & Construction Corporation Ltd (Hyundai) from South Korea and Wison Engineering Corporation Ltd (Wison) from China selected Technip from France to supply two hydrogen reformers for the Venezuela national oil company (NOC) Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) Puerto La Cruz Refinery project. […]
Sabic and MRC to build the world largest MMA plant The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) and the Mitsubishi Rayon Company (MRC) are preparing the call for tender for two chemical facilities to be added in Sabic al-Jubail existing chemical plant. In August 2009, Sabic and Mitsubishi Rayon had signed a letter of intend (LOI) to prepare […]
ILF won South-Sudan export pipeline feasibility study The German-based ILF Consulting Engineers (ILF) has been awarded by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining a contract to perform the feasibility study on export pipeline projects out of the Republic of South Sudan. By this contract ILF is expected to analyze and compare the alternative routes to export […]
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 […]
