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KBR wins Azeri OGPC Gas Processing Plant PMC The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) selected the Houston-based engineering company KBR to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the gas processing plant (GPP) within its Oil & Gas Processing and Petrochemical Complex (OGPC) project in Azerbaijan. In April 2012, […]
Technip completed FEED for Ras Laffan Refinery Expansion project Since Technip completed the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract the Ras Laffan Refinery Expansion project is moving into its final bidding phase for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with only four companies still in the competition such as selected by Qatar Petroleum (QP) and its partners, ExxonMobil, Total, Cosmo Oil […]
BW Offshore to take operation role in Tamar FLNG On February 19th, 2013, the Norwegian fleet operator BW Offshore (BW) announced to have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with the Dutch company Pangea LNG B.V. (Pangea) regarding Noble Energy (Noble) King floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project for the Tamar and Dalit gas fields […]
Majors develop cutting-edge subsea drilling technology On February 2013, the German Wintershall oil and gas company has decided to follow Chevron example in taking shares in the subsea drilling innovative company Badger Explorer aside its key stakeholders ExxonMobil and Statoil. With the ambition to increase its footprint in the offshore exploration and production in the […]
South Louisiana Methanol selected St. James Parish Zero Emission Energy Plant Ltd (ZEEP) from Austin in Texas, USA, and Todd Corporation (Todd) from Wellington in New Zealand will invest $1.3 billion capital expenditure in a new methanol plant in Louisiana, USA. To support the project, ZEEP and Todd established the South Louisiana Methanol LP (SLM) as a […]
Maersk to develop BP 20K drilling technology concept BP selected Maersk Drilling from Denmark and the Houston-based engineering company KBR to implement the development of its 20KTM concept for a new generation of drilling rigs. February 2013, BP and Maersk Drilling (Maersk) signed an agreement to develop and provide detailed engineering on a BP‘s conceptual designs for a new generation of […]
Technip completed Pechora LNG feasibility study February 21st 2013, Alltech Group (Alltech) and Pechora LNG LLC (Pechora) meet in Moscow, Russia, with RF Deputy Regional Development Minister Sergey Vakhrukov and the Governor of Nenets Autonomous District Igor Fyendorov to move the project of liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, Pechora LNG, into the top priority list […]
Mzia successful appraisal to justify BG two LNG trains The BG Group (BG) and its partner Ophir Energy (Ophir), both from UK, are pilling up natural gas reserves along their on going appraisal campaign offshore the east coast of Africa to the point to double the size of their liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in […]
