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Shell said has awarded Foster Weeler Corp. a GBP 60 million contract to build a gas separation plant at its St Fergus site in Scotland.

ChevronTexaco Corp. and Phillips Petroleum Co. have announced that their chemical business joint venture plans to build a USD 1 billion addition to an existing chemical plant in Saudi Arabia.

LG&E Power Incorporated (Fairfax, Virginia), a subsidiary of PowerGen Plc, has awarded Black & Veatch the engineering and construction contract for an 850mw peaking plant in Georgia, USA.

Trinidad and Tobago is to intensify its industrial development and exports based on natural gas.

BOC and Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec-YPC), a subsidiary of the Sinopec Group, have formed a joint venture known as Nanjing BOC-YPC Gases Company Ltd (BYG) to meet expanding industrial gases requirements in Nanjing, China.

The Brazilian subsidiary of France's Alstom Power will supply all the equipment for three small-scale hydroelectric projects that the Brazilian subsidiary of Canada's Brascan will build in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul and Parana states under the terms of a USD 17.4 million contract.

El Paso Global LNG, a subsidiary of El Paso Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work with the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) and the Eqyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) to investigate opportunities for El Paso to invest in the natural gas sector in Egypt.

Vietnam has awarded a French-Japanese consortium a contract to build the country's first oil refinery with an investment of USD 1.3 billion, of which USD 700–800 million would be for construction and equipment.

Pancontinental Oil and Gas NL (Australia) has reached agreement with the government of Kenya for the award of three large, prospective, shallow water, onshore/offshore blocks.

Iraq has invited Russian oil company Zarubezhneft to help develop a large oilfield in southern Iraq.