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Technip awarded contract for Lucius field

Technip was awarded a lump sum contract by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the development of the Lucius field, located in the Keathley Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of approximately 7000ft.

Nordex wins 25MW Bavaria deal

Nordex has won an order for its new N117/2400 onshore machine from the developers of Bavaria’s biggest wind farm. The company has received a contract from VenSol Neue Energien GmbH and Honold GmbH Windkraftanlagen for the delivery of ten turbines for the Zöschingen wind farm.

Technip awarded flexible supply contract

newsitemTechnip was awarded by INPEX CORPORATION a flexible pipe supply lump sum contract for the Ichthys gas field, in Australia.

Technip wins a large subsea installation contract

Technip has won a subsea contract by Chevron Australia Pty Ltd for the Wheatstone Project. The contract, valued at approximately EUR 245 million, covers the development of the Wheatstone and Iago fields, located in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore North Western Australia.

Hamilton Metals Opens New Facility

  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.

Oneok enters crude-oil transportation industry

Oneok Partners LP will spend between USD 1.5 billion to USD 1.8 billion to build a 1300mi crude-oil pipeline between the Bakken Shale in North Dakota and the Cushing, Okla. crude-oil market hub. This will mark the company's entry into the crude-oil transportation business.

Kiev to invest in Trans-Caspian pipeline

 Kiev is set to invest EUR 790 million in Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline, pending on whether the project includes the construction of a branch to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Georgia's port Kulevi, from which gas could be carried to Ukraine by sea.

Lebanon invites interest in LNG project

Lebanon's ministry of energy and water has invited eligible companies involved in the liquefied natural gas import and re-gasification industries to express their interest in a planned local project. The project includes operating a floating plant for LNG re-gasification starting from early 2015 and setting up an offshore floating terminal for receiving LNG vessels, the ministry said, according to the news agency.

Fluor wins LNG Contract

Fluor Corporation has won a contract from PETRONAS Gas Berhad, a subsidiary of PETRONAS, to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Malaysia.

Chevron to build chemical plant

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. will build the world's largest plant, by capacity, for making 1-hexene, a key component of plastic resin. The plant, which Chevron Phillips will begin building this year, is scheduled to begin operations in the first quarter of 2014 and have an annual production capacity of 250,000 metric tons, or 551 million pounds, according to a company announcement.