British Columbia LNG project in design competition The Malaysia national oil company Petronas and its partner Japan Petroleum Exploration Corporation Ltd (Japex) are opening a design competition for the greenfield Pacific Northwest LNG project in British Columbia, Canada. This decision came out after the completion of the acquisition of the (more…)
Read moreFreeport LNG Expansion to get approval on H2 2013 After Cheniere Sabine Pass LNG in Louisiana, the Freeport LNG Expansion project in Texas could be the second export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) project to be approved by the US administration. This Freeport LNG Expansion project stands on the second position in (more…)
Read moreShell to compare FPSO with tie-back on Gumusut The Netherlands-based major company Shell is investigating through its joint venture Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) the optimized solution to develop the Geronggong oil field offshore the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam (Brunei). Located 100 kilometers offshore Brunei by a water depth of 1,000 (more…)
Read moreKBR 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 (more…)
Read moreSouth 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 (more…)
Read moreBASF awards Fluor Ludwigshafen TDI EPCM contract On February 19th 2013, the Germany-based BASF chemical company selected the Fluor from the USA to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the new toluene diisocyanate (TDI) production in the Ludwigshafen chemical complex. Ludwigshafen is already one of the largest (more…)
Read moreOOC and Takamul to build world-scale storage terminal On January 2013, Oman Oil Company (OOC) and Takamul Investment Company (Takamul), both companies from the Sultanate of Oman, established a joint venture to build one of the world largest oil storage terminal at Raz Markaz in Oman. Called Oman Tank Terminal (more…)
Read moreAltaGas and Idemitsu to build LNG facility on BC coast AltaGas Ltd (AltaGas) from Alberta in Canada and the Japanese Idemitsu Kosan Corporation Ltd (Idemitsu) have decided to form the 50/50 AltaGas Idemitsu Joint Venture Limited Partnership joint venture to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) from (more…)
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2013
One Day – One Country: Russia
Russia Key Projects and Business Highlights In 2012, the newly elected President Putin managed to re-shape its oil and gas and petrochemical industry with number of strategic decisions to ensure that Russia will remain the largest producer of oil and gas in the coming years. President Putin based its economic program (more…)
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