Company News

Australia’s Thiess Pty Ltd has secured a contract with Bechtel to undertake site preparation works for the downstream portion of the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project, a LNG and domestic gas project in Western Australia.

ThyssenKrupp VDM GmbH has placed an order with SMS Siemag for the supply of a new 2.7m heavy plate stand for their Siegen, Germany location.

Sunoco, Inc. has entered into exclusive discussions with The Carlyle Group, a global alternative asset manager, regarding a potential joint venture involving Sunoco's 330,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Philadelphia.If a transaction were to go through, Sunoco would contribute its Philadelphia refinery assets in exchange for a non-operating minority interest in the joint venture.

Nord Stream has completed the laying of the second section of the gas pipeline."By the end of 2012 upon completion of start-up and commissioning the section will be ready for supplying gas to Europe," the company said.

Rio Tinto will put driverless trucks into a production iron ore mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region, following a five truck trial in its West Angelas mine. The company will deploy ten automated Komatsu haul trucks to the Junction South East pit of its Yandicoogina mine.

After 21 years with the company, Lucio Della Martina will retire from Woodside Petroleum. According to Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman, Della Martina will remain in charge of Pluto LNG and Woodside's Australian assets as executive vice-president, Australian business, until his departure.

  Delta Air Lines may partner with JP Morgan to help run the ConocoPhillips' idled 185,000 barrel per day Trainer, Pa., refinery, if the carrier decides to purchase the plant.

  Hamilton Metals, one of the largest stocking distributors of Corrosion Resistant Alloys (CRA) for the exploration and production industry, has opened a new stocking facility in Edmonton, Alberta.