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Heerema won Alba third compression platform EPCI In April 2013, the Houston-based Marathon Oil Corporation (Marathon) and its partners, Noble Energy (Noble) and the Compania Nacional de Petroleos de Guinea Ecuatorial (GE Petrol) awarded the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract to Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) for the Alba PSC B3 gas compression platform. To […]
BP to consider all options for Mad Dog 2 development After the decision to stop the ongoing front end engineering and design (FEED) contracts on the Mad Dog Phase 2 project, BP and its partners, BHP Billiton and Chevron, are back to the drawing board to search for an economically acceptable solution. Last month, BP announced […]
Ineos-UOP to provide MTO technology license The Chinese Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Company Ltd (JSPCL) selected the Ineos and Honeywell’s UOP technology for its world-scale methanol-to olefin (MTO) project planned at Lianyungang, in the north of the eastern province of Jiangsu in China. JSPCL belongs to the large Jiangsu Shenghong Group, listed among the top 500 Chinese […]
Zadco to prepare call for tender on Umm al-Dalkh After awarding Upper Zakum EPC-2 contract to Petrofac, the Abu Dhabi Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) is preparing the invitation to bid (ITB) for the development of Umm al-Dalkh, offshore Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. On April 11th, 2013, ZADCO awarded the engineering, procurement and […]
Tortue discovery paves Harvest way to Dussafu FPSO The Houston-based Harvest Natural Resources (Harvest) and its partner Panoro Energy (Panoro) from Norway hit pre-salt crude oil again with the Tortue discovery in the Dussafu Marin License offshore Gabon. This success paves the way to Harvest and Panoro to consider the floating production, storage and offloading […]
ExxonMobil, Woodside, Statoil ready to board on FLNG Earlier this month, ExxonMobil and its partner BHP Billiton (BHP) unveiled their project to introduce their first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel as the remedy to stop the costs inflation of its Scarborough natural project offshore Australia. A week later, the Australian company Woodside Petroleum (Woodside) […]
KBR to provide PurifierTM Ammonia technology Dyno Nobel Louisiana Ammonia LLC, the US subsidiary of Australian group Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL), made the final investment decision (FID) to build a new nitrogen-based fertilizer plant in Louisiana, USA. In order to optimize its $850 million capital expenditure, IPL selected an existing chemical complex in Waggaman, Louisiana, to […]
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) wins Rosebank FPSO The super major Chevron from USA and its partners, Statoil from Norway, OMV from Austria and Dong from Denmark, have awarded the Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel of the Rosebank project to the South Korean Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). The Rosebank project is located 175 kilometers northwest of the […]