Technip completes FEED on Freeport ethylene cracker To optimize the competitive advantage of the US glut of shale gas, the Dow Chemical Company (Dow) is planning to increase locally the number and variety of production units downward its chemical value chain. Presented as early as April 2011, the US Gulf (more…)
Read moreKBR 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 (more…)
Read moreOxy to join Chevron, Dow, Exxon and Shell US projects On December 2012, Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) submitted a permit application to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the construction of a new ethylene cracker at Ingleside in Texas, USA. Based in Los Angeles in California, USA, Occidental Petroleum (more…)
Read moreSabic to expand petrochemical capacities in USA The Ryadh-based Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic), may join BASF, ChevronPhillips, Dow Chemical (Dow), Enterprise Products Partners (Enterprise), ExxonMobil, Evonik, Occidental Petroleum, Sasol, Shell, to increase its petrochemical foot print in USA to benefit from the low costs feedstock provided by the shale (more…)
Read moreShell to boost Pulau Bukom ethylene cracker by 20% On November 2012, Shell made the final investment decision (FID) for the debottlenecking of its petrochemical complex in Pulau Bukom, in Bukom Island, Singapore. Identified as Shell Eastern Petrochemical Complex (SEPC) project, Shell started up this petrochemical complex in March 2010. Because of the increasing demand (more…)
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06
Nov
2012
Dow Chemical awards Freeport Ethylene to Technip
Technip signs FEED contract for Dow Texas Operations October 2012, The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) selected Technip from France for the front end engineering and design (FEED) of its world scale ethylene project on the Gulf Coast, Texas, USA. Dow is the world largest manufacturer of olefin and polyolefin products. Based on ethylene cracking, the (more…)
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05
Nov
2012
Project Smart Explorer News
240 projects represent more than 680 billion CAPEX On November 5th 2012, the Project Smart Explorer data base contains the 240 largest projects of the oil and gas and petrochemical industry. These projects represent more than 680 billion of capital expenditure to be mostly invested on the next three years by (more…)
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30
Oct
2012
Project Smart Explorer goes live
The First Online and Smart sales pursuit tools to trace Oil and Gas and Petrochemical projects 2B1st Consulting’s team of experts developed Project Smart Explorer as the first sales pursuit tool to trace and scan online the largest projects of the chemical, oil and gas industry in the world. (more…)
Read moreAfter Occidental, Mexichem signed with Pemex In August 2012, Mexichem SAB (Mexichem) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) through its chemical branch Oxychem to build a new ethylene cracker for the supply of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM). Vinyl Chloride Monomer is the primary feedstock for (more…)
Read moreSibur kicks off Russian largest petrochemical complex If Russia is among the biggest producer and exporter of oil and gas, Russia is also a net importer of petrochemical products. In the same way as Russia has multiplied strategic alliances with western companies, such as ExxonMobil, Statoil, ENI, Total to boost its (more…)
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