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Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem) has announced two new joint-venture agreements for the development of its second world-scale petrochemical project in Qatar.

Oleochemicals manufacturers currently operating in the Pasir Gudang industrial estate, India, will make investments of about RM 300 million under their expansion programme within the next two years.

The Australian company Gippsland Limited has embarked on a feasibility study for its Abu Dabbab tantalite project in Egypt.

CBI Eastern Anstalt, the primary Middle Eastern subsidiary of Chicago Bridge & Iron Company NV, has been awarded a lump-sum turn-key contract by Occidental Petroleum of Qatar (Occidental) for the engineering, procurement and construction of new oil/water separation facilities offshore of Qatar.

BP PLC and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., or Sinopec Corp., are in talks to expand a Sinopec unit in eastern China to meet the country's growing need for purified terephthalic acid.

Japan’s Sumitomo Corp. will jointly build a USD 643 million power plant in northern Iran with MAPNA (affiliated Iran Power Plant Projects Management Co.), a local state-run firm.

Technip-Coflexip has announced that Coflexip Stena Offshore Ltd, one of its UK entities, has been awarded the pipelines and subsea EPCIC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning) contract from BG International (NSW) Ltd, for its Juno development in the Southern UK North Sea.

Shell has signed an agreement with Aker Kvaerner and Statkraft to launch a project in Norway to explore possible large-scale applications of new zero-emission solid oxide fuel cell technology driven by natural gas.

The Australian state of Queensland will get a new A$500 million (US$284.8 million) gas-fired power station by 2005.

Calpine Corporation is constructing a $450 million electrical generating plant in southern California that is scheduled to come online at the end of 2003. Located near Lebec, off Interstate Highway 5 North, Calpine's Pastoria Energy Center is a natural gas-fired combined cycle plant that will utilize three GE combustion turbines, heat recovery steam generators, and a steam turbine generator to produce 750MW of electricity. The company broke ground on the project last July and has started mechanical erection. Pastoria is being engineered by Utility Engineering (Minneapolis, Minnesota), while Kvaerner-Songer, Incorporated (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is performing construction activities.