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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 […]
Statoil & GDF-Suez consider platform or FPSO at Njord The Norwegian company Statoil and its partners, GDF-Suez from France, E.ON from Germany, Faroe Petroleum (Faroe) from UK, and VNG Norge from Norway, are currently investigating several alternatives to extend the lifetime of the Njord field for additional twenty years. The current Njord A semi-submersible platform […]
JGC in the lead for Ras Tanura Offsites & Utilities EPC The Japanese engineering company JGC Corporation (JGC) is leading the discussions with Saudi Aramco for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of the Offsites & Utilities in Ras Tanura Clean Fuel and Aromatics project. Located on the East Coast within the Eastern Province, […]
Chevron at final stage for Oleska Shale Gas project After Eni and Shell, which signed a production sharing agreement (PSA) respectively in June 2012 and January 2013, Chevron is reaching the final stage to close also a PSA with the State Government and Regional Councils of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk to explore and develop the Oleska shale […]
BP and CNPC prepare Rumaila processing plant bids The UK super major BP and its partners, China National Oil Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) and the Iraq state-owned State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) are currently reviewing the long list of the potential bidders for the Rumaila oil processing plants projects near Basra in the south of […]
Adma-Opco call for technical bid on Al-Nasr Full Field Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Adma-Opco) published the deadlines for the engineering companies to submit their technical offers for the Al-Nasr Full Field Development project offshore Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). As Al-Nasr Full Field Development project, Adma-Opco intents to proceed to the second […]
Technip selected for Lake Charles LNG FEED work BG Group plc (BG) from UK and Trunkline LNG Export LLC (Trunkline) from USA have selected Technip to perform the front engineering and design (FEED) to convert their US Lake Charles facilities into Louisiana liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal. Trunkline is a wholly-owned Energy Transfer company as […]
Iraq Key Projects and Business Highlights The first half 2013 saw positive changes in Iraq with all the companies increasing the production of crude oil and natural gas, and with most of the international oil companies (IOCs) such as BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Petronas, Shell, Total proceeding to successful diplomatic moves either in signing farm-in agreements […]