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Sibur to provide Sinopec with patents and technologies China’s top refiner China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) has signed an agreement with Russian petrochemical Group Sibur to establish a joint venture in Shanghai, China, to produce synthetic rubber. The joint venture will use patents and technologies from Sibur to produce nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) and isoprene rubber […]
Foster Wheeler, Jacobs, KBR, Mustang and SNC Lavalin signed GES+ contracts with Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco’s General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) initiative requires that the majority of its engineering services requirements be conducted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in order to enhance the development of training and domestic employment opportunities. With the GES+ initiative, […]
Carbon dioxide injection to boost Adma-Opco oil fields Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Adma-Opco) is Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)‘s subsidiary to explore and produce oil and gas from the offshore areas of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE. If the Abu Dhabi Emirate is rich of oil reserves, it has always been short of gas. […]
Definition GES+ is the acronym of General Engineering Services Plus. General Engineering Services Plus is an initiative led by Saudi Aramco to increase the local content of the engineering activities in Saudi Arabia Comments Saudi Aramco’s General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) initiative requires that the majority of its engineering services requirements be conducted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in order […]
Definition Turret is the major component of a vessel or any floating production unit (FPSO, FPO) to which the risers coming from the seabed are connected. Turret name refers the rotating function of this large equipment to facilitate the rotation of the vessel according to winds, waves and dominating current while the risers remain connected to a […]
Granherne and Doris complete pre-FEED The GDF Suez Bonaparte is a $3.7 to $4.6 billion Floating LNG project to liquefied the natural gas from the Petrel, Tern and Frigate fields in the Bonaparte Basin, in the Timor Sea, 250 kilometres west of the northern Australian city of Darwin. GDF Suez Bonaparte is a joint venture created in 2009 […]
Shale gas to help Celanese integration business model Celanese Corporation (Celanese) is a global technology and specialty materials company owning and operating a large acetyl complex at Clear Lake, close to Houston, Texas, USA. The positive developments in the U.S. energy complex to become a net gas exporter creates favorable conditions to explore all the […]
Definition Greenfield is the common word to describe a new project. By opposition Brownfield refers to project of expansion or revamping or services on an existing facility. Comments Greenfield word is not a quote reserved to the oil and gas and petrochemical industry, but it finds in this sector some fundamental reasons to be used more […]
