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BASF awards Fluor Ludwigshafen TDI EPCM contract On February 19th 2013, the Germany-based BASF chemical company selected the Fluor from the USA to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the new toluene diisocyanate (TDI) production in the Ludwigshafen chemical complex. Ludwigshafen is already one of the largest chemical complex in the world […]
Noble to install first Floating LNG in Mediterranean Sea Noble Energy (Noble) and its partners, awarded the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Pangea LNG B.V. for a floating production unit of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be installed on the Tamar gas field, 90 kilometers offshore Israel. Operated by Noble, the Tamar […]
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 […]
Cosco to build Sevan-designed cylindrical Dana FPSO The UK-based Dana Petroleum (Dana), a subsidiary of the Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC), and its partner Cieco (Itochu Oil Exploration Corp. LTd), awarded to the Chinese Cosco Shipyard Group (Cosco) the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its Western Isles Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit. […]
Technip and WorleyParsons completed the FEED Chevron had awarded the front end engineering and design (FEED) for the development of Gengalo – Gehem project to: – Technip Jakarta office in Indonesia and Houston office in Texas, USA, for the two large Floating Production Units (FPU) package – Worley Parsons Indonesia for the Subsea and Flowline system package. From these FEED performed by Technip and WorleyParsons, the packages are estimated […]
Definition Pyrotol is a trademark owned by CB&I Lummus from The Netherlands to designate a chromium – alumina catalyst used in the petrochemical industry. Comments The Pyrotol process converts hydrocarbons C6 to C9 fraction of pyrolysis liquids obtained as a by-product of the ethylene production. This process requests consistent hydro-cracking of non-aromatics, but a limited amount of […]
Air Products to purchase 67% of Indura for $884 million Headquartered in Santiago, Chile, Indura S.A. is the largest independent industrial gas company in South America. In buying 67% majority stake in Indura, Air Products gets access to twelve countries within the second most dynamic region in term of GDP, just after the leading Asia. […]
Petrofac-Schlumberger won 30 years Pemex contract The Pánuco Area in Mexico contains four mature onshore fields operated by the Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). Discovered in the early 1900s with original oil in place of approximately 6.8 billion barrels, the Panuco oil fields have about 1,600 wells of which around 200 are currently producing a total of […]
