Tag: project

Ticona expands capacity

Ticona, the technical polymers unit of Celanese AG, has expanded its North American compounding capability by adding 20% more capacity at its plant in Shelby, NC, and 30% more capacity at its plant in Florence, Kentucky, USA.

Oman production boost

MB Petroleum and its new partner, CNPC, will invest a total of USD 220 million over the next four years to achieve a projected five-fold increase in oil production at the Sultanate's Mezoon-5 oil concession.

Memorial project

AK Steel is donating 20,000 pounds of stainless steel produced in western Pennsylvania to a project raising money for a permanent memorial to the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93

Iran signs South Pars deals

Iran will shortly sign the agreements to implement phases 9 and 10 of the giant South Pars gas development projects, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh has said.

Statoil gives contract to Samsung

Norway's Statoil has given a NOK 475 million contract to Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co to construct the steel hull for a production platform to be used in the Kristin field in the North Sea.

Power plants in Australia

AlintaGas Ltd (Perth, Australia) is attempting to dismantle the monopoly of the government-owned utility, Western Power Corporation, by providing customers with a choice of electricity retailers and delivering cheaper electricity prices to the grid.

Pennsylvania power

Foster Wheeler Ltd has announced that its subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Power Group Inc., has been awarded a contract valued at approximately USD 200 million by LMB Funding Limited Partnership, to engineer, procure and construct a nominal 600 MW capacity combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant.

Saudi refinery and power co-generation

Foster Wheeler Ltd has announced that its subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Energy Limited has been awarded a project management services contract for two distillate hydrotreaters and power co-generation plants by Aramco Overseas Company.

Xikomba EPS awards

ExxonMobil recently awarded several contracts associated with its Xikomba EPS subsea development offshore Angola in about 4593 FSW (1400 MSW).

Sandvik supplies duplex to W. Africa

Sandvik Steel has received orders for nearly half a million metres of duplex stainless steel tubing, for hydraulic and chemical injection lines for subsea umbilical cables, for ExxonMobil's Kizomba project and the Zafiro project, both in West Africa.