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Foster Wheeler won Statoil Mongstad feasibility study The national oil company (NOC) Statoil ASA (Statoil) sanctioned a feasibility study contract to the Swiss-based engineering company Foster Wheeler to upgrade the Mongstad Refinery in Norway. Norway is hosting two refineries, in Mongstad operated by Statoil and in Slagen owned by ExxonMobil. Located on the Norwegian west coast […]
OOC and Takamul to build world-scale storage terminal On January 2013, Oman Oil Company (OOC) and Takamul Investment Company (Takamul), both companies from the Sultanate of Oman, established a joint venture to build one of the world largest oil storage terminal at Raz Markaz in Oman. Called Oman Tank Terminal Company LLC (OTTCO), this new […]
Shell to increase diesel import capacities in UK The consortium made of Greenergy International Ltd (Greenergy), Royal Vopak (Vopak) and Shell completed the acquisition of the assets of the Coryton refinery in UK to build and operate a state-of-the-art import terminal for oil products. The transaction was closed with PwC acting as the administrator of […]
The Vopak Way: 75 global operational standards Headquartered in Rotterdam in The Netherlands, Royal Vopak (Vopak) is the world largest independent storage and handling operator of oil and gas and petrochemical products. Established in 1999 from the merger between Pakhoed and Van Ommeren, Vopak operates 84 terminals in 31 countries with a global storage capacity […]
SABIC and Vopak to build $400 million storage facility Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and Royal Vopak (Vopak) signed Heads of Agreement (HoA) to form a joint venture to build new storage facilities in the Al Jubail Terminal on the east coast of Saudi Arabia. The joint venture between SABIC and Vopak should be established under […]