Tag: project

Stainless facility in Australia

A memorandum of understanding was signed in Berlin for the proposed USD 800 million Hunter Specialty Steels Ltd (HSSL) facility in New South Wales (NSW).

US chemical companies produce own electricity

The Dow Chemical Company, BP and Occidental Chemical Company all have something new in common. These companies, along with a growing list of their peers, are increasingly turning to combined heat and power (CHP) generation.

Stolt Offshore wins repair contracts in Norway

Stolt Offshore SA has announced the award of two contracts to the Stolt Halliburton Joint Venture for pipeline repairs in Norway.

Technip creates engineering company in Kazakhstan

Technip and Transport of Oil and Gas (TOG), the National Oil and Gas Transportation Company of Kazakhstan, have created a joint engineering and construction company headquartered in Almaty. Both shareholders will hold a 50% stake in this company, named Technip Kazakhstan.

Qatar cracker

TotalFinaElf SA has said that its Atofina division had agreed with Chevron Phillips Chemical and two Qatari firms to build what could become the world's largest ethane cracker in Qatar.

Mikkel contract awarded

Statoil has awarded European Marine Contractors the assignment of laying a pipeline between the Mikkel field in the Norwegian Sea and a subsea template on the Šsgard field's Midgard deposit.

Foster Wheeler in Qatar GTL project

Foster Wheeler Ltd's UK subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd (FWEL), has won a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for an estimated USD 800 million gas-to-liquids (GTL) project, based in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.

NZ company to build plant in Australia

New Zealand energy company Contact Energy Ltd and its cornerstone shareholder, Edison Mission, have given the go-ahead to a ASD 164 million peaking power plant in Victoria.

Waste into watts

The City of Fort Worth's Village Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant uses a combination of technologies to conserve electricity, generate power, reduce costs and use fuel and heat efficiently.

Nigeria plans gas-to-liquid plant

Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, along with Alhaji Sa’adina Dantata, chairman and CEO of Danba Energy Ltd (Nigeria) and Mr William Morris of Dresser Engineering and Constructors Inc. (USA), have signed agreements for a 10,000 barrels per day (bpd) gas-to-liquid plant, to be located in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, at a cost of USD 450 million.