Tag: petrochemicals

Oil & Gas Asia 2003

Oil & Gas Asia 2003, the Asian oil, gas and petrochemical engineering industry exhibition, is expected to attract 400 exhibitors from 30 countries and 11,000 visitors.

Iran’s new oil phases

President Mohammad Khatami has inaugurated Phases 2 and 3 of Iran's oil projects which he described as among the "biggest projects of Iran's oil and gas industry".

BASF to expand China petchem plant

BASF (Germany) plans to expand its biggest China investment, a USD 2.9 billion petrochemicals complex in Nanjing, by 2010, to keep up with the rapidly expanding Chinese market.

Petrochem plant in Qatar

Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd has been awarded a contract by Qatar Petroleum for front-end engineering design (FEED) and project management consultancy (PMC) for a new linear alkyl benzene (LAB) plant in Qatar.

Italy’s Edison unit wins Chinese deal

Italy's second-biggest energy group Edison has announced that its engineering and construction unit Tecnimont has won a USD 220 million deal to build a polyolefin complex, part of China's huge petrochemical project.

Petrochemical award for Technip

Technip-Coflexip has been awarded by CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Ltd an EPC contract for a SM/PO and MPG/Polyols complex at Huizhou, Guandong Province, in southern China.

Saudi gas project in the balance

Saudi Arabia is unhappy with the latest responses from oil majors on three core ventures in its multi-billion-dollar gas initiative but has left the door open for further consultations.

Lukoil and Gazprom sign strategic pact

Lukoil and Gazprom have signed a general strategic partnership agreement.

Pemex to tender two petrochem projects

The petrochemical unit of Mexico's state oil company Pemex will launch a tender in February 2003 for two petrochemical complexes, one at Coatzacoalcos in Veracruz state, and the other at Altamira in Tamaulipas state.

Uhde lands China contract

Dortmund-based Uhde GmbH has been awarded a contract by Sinopec International in Beijing to engineer China’s biggest vinyl chloride (VCM) plant with a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year.