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Liquid Light tests CO2 conversion commercial viability Based in the New-Jersey, USA, the technology company Liquid Light Corporation (Liquid Light) presented a successful demo-case to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into mono ethylene glycol (MEG) in viable commercial conditions. Carbon dioxide is well known as superabundant waste emitted in nearly every industrial transformation or energy combustion […]
Petrofac contracted as Block R Development Operator The London-based junior company Ophir Energy plc (Ophir) has appointed the engineering company Petrofac from UK, to support them for the development of the natural gas reserves held in the Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea on the west coast of Africa. While listed in UK with main operations […]
Woodside signed agreement on Grassy Point LNG The Australian company Woodside Petroleum (Woodside) and the Government of British Columbia (BC) signed an agreement to open a greenfield liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Grassy Point along the west coast of Canada. This Grassy Point project comes at the end of a list of more than […]
BP to re-tender Mad Dog 2 FEED on Atlantis concept BP is preparing the second call for tender on the front end engineering and design (FEED) for the Mad Dog-2 offshore platform based on the semi-submersible concept used for Atlantis in the US part of the Gulf of Mexico. Originally BP intended to develop the second […]
Ningbo Fortune selects UOP technology for propylene As an Oriental Energy Corporation Ltd (Oriental Energy) company, Ningbo Fortune Petrochemical Corporation Ltd (Ningbo Fortune) selected the US-based UOP-Honeywell technology for a greenfield project to produce propylene at the port of Ningbo, in the Zhejiang Province, China. Previously named Zhangjiagang Oriental Energy, the company became Oriental Energy in […]
Consol and Range to supply shale gas to Ineos cracker The US-based junior companies Consol Energy Inc. (Consol) and Range Resources Corporation (RRC or Range Resources) signed long term agreements with the Swiss registered petrochemical company Ineos Group AG (Ineos) to import shale gas from the USA to supply its ethylene cracker at Grangemouth complex in […]
Gendalo-Gehem bidders to include Indonesia partners The US major company Chevron and the Italian national oil company (NOC) Eni are reviewing the qualification of the contractors in competition for the floating production and offloading (FPO) vessels required for the development of the Gendalo and Gehem liquids-rich gas fields in the Makassar Strait offshore the East […]
Maire Tecnimont achieves FEED work on Al-Sejeel After awarding Al-Sejeel front end engineering and design (FEED) work to Maire Tecnimont, the national companies Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) are aligning the engineering companies willing to bid for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Al-Sejeel petrochemical project in Ras Laffan […]
