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Technip, Samsung & Huanqiu Awarded Contract for LNG Project in Canada
Technip, leader of a consortium with Samsung Engineering Co Ltd and China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation, was awarded by Pacific NorthWest LNG Limited Partnership a contract for the fro...
5/22/2013 - LNG Processing - Canada
Asian Product Markets and Refinery Operations – April 2012
The Asian market continued bearish on the back of increasing supplies outpacing the regional seasonal weak demand, causing margins to fall, with the exception of fuel oil, which remained strong on the...
5/22/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - Vietnam
Azerikimya Commissions Nitrogen-Oxygen Unit & Water-Cooling Complex
Nitrogen-oxygen unit and water-cooling complex was commissioned at Ethylene-polyethylene Plant of Azerikimya PU.The event was attended by SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev, head of the Executive Power...
5/21/2013 - Nitrogen - Azerbaijan
Zinfra Wins an AU $36Mln Contract on Wheatstone Project
Zinfra is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement with Bechtel for the design and construction of a 132 kV High Voltage Power Cable System for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in W...
5/21/2013 - Cables - Australia
Emerson’s DVC6200 Valve Controller without Position Transmitter
Emerson’s Fisher FIELDVUE DVC6200 digital valve controller series now incorporates a 4-20mA position transmitter that can also be configured as a discrete switch. Having the valve position transmitter...
5/21/2013 - Valve Positioner - United States
Gazprom Neft to Invest 50 Billion Rubles in Moscow Refinery
Gazprom Neft has adopted a mid-term investment program for its Moscow Oil Refinery. The company will invest over 50 billion rubles in modernization of the enterprise in 2013-2015, which will make it p...
5/20/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - Russia
SOCAR Turkey Signs STAR Refinery Construction Agreement
An agreement on construction of the Star refinery was signed at Chiraghan Hotel in Turkey. The document was signed by head of SOCAR Investments Division and Petkim’s Chairman of Board Vagif Aliyev, Ch...
5/20/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - Turkey
Aramco Upgrades GOSP with GE’s Technology
GE (GE) has replaced an aging compressor control system at Saudi Aramco’s Haradh gas/oil separation plant in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province with advanced technology that automates the control process...
5/20/2013 - Compressors, Gas - Saudi Arabia
Oceaneering Announces Burullus Phase IXa Contract
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that it has secured a contract from Saipem to supply umbilicals for the Burullus West Delta Deep Marine Phase IXa development located offshore Egypt. ...
5/20/2013 - Umbilical Lines - Egypt
Newpark Resources Announces Middle East Contract Award
Newpark Resources, Inc. announced that it has been awarded and has entered into a contract with the Kuwait Oil Company to provide drilling fluids and related services for land operations. The agreemen...
5/20/2013 - Fluids Drilling, Completion, Workover & Stimulation - Kuwait
Use of Mechanical Seal with DiamondFace Coating in Multi-Phase Pumps for Petroamazonas in Ecuador
Multi-phase pumps for crude oil are truly multi-talented. They reliably pump mixtures of crude oil, formation water, and natural gas, in vastly differing concentrations and compositions. The pump's se...
5/20/2013 - Pumps: Centrifugal - Ecuador
Turkey, Egypt Agree with Iran Proposed Petrochemical OPEC
Iranian deputy oil minister says, Turkey and Egypt has agreed with Irans proposal to form an international petrochemical association much like Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), sta...
5/20/2013 - Petrochemicals - Iran
BP One Step Closer to Completion of Carson Refinery
BP announced that it expects to complete the sale of its Carson Refinery and Southwest U.S. retail assets to Tesoro Corporation in the second quarter of this year now that the transaction has received...
5/17/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - United States
SPDC Declares Force Majeure on Gas Supplies to NLNG
Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited (“SPDC”) has declared force majeure on gas supplies to Nigeria LNG, effective 09:00 hrs (Nigerian time) on Wednesday, May 15 2013. ...
5/16/2013 - Gas Processing - Nigeria
Cargotec Wins EUR 22 Million to Deliver AHC Subsea Crane
Cargotec's MacGregor has received EUR 22 million order to deliver a 900-tonne active heave-compensated (AHC) MacGregor subsea crane to the South Korean shipyard, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd. The c...
5/16/2013 - Cranes - South Korea
TOYO Awarded FEED for Polyethylene Plant in USA
Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO, President and CEO Katsumoto Ishibashi) was awarded a contract from Sasol North America, Inc. (Sasol) to provide Front End Engineering Design (FEED) services for a 4...
5/16/2013 - Polyethylene - United States
Technip Awarded Contract for Polyethylene Expansion Project in Canada
Technip was awarded by NOVA Chemicals Corporation the detail engineering, and procurement services contract for the Polyethylene 1 expansion project located at their Joffre site near Red Deer in Alber...
5/16/2013 - Polyethylene - Canada
Expanding Line of Micro Motion ELITE Coriolis Flowmeters
Emerson Process Management has added the Micro Motion ELITE CMFS sensor platform to its line of Coriolis flowmeters to deliver precise measurement to smaller line sizes (pipelines less than 2 inches o...
5/15/2013 - Flowmeters - United States
Total Buys Shell's Retail Network in Egypt
French oil company Total SA Wednesday confirmed it acquired Royal Dutch Shell PLC's fuel retail network in Egypt as part of its strategy to strengthen its distribution position in the country and wide...
5/15/2013 - Petrochemicals - Egypt
Construction of Kazachya Compressor Station Starts
The construction of the Kazachya compressor station (CS) started in the Krasnodar Territory. At the moment, the foundation is being built for the station facilities. ...
5/15/2013 - Compressors, Gas - Russia
Orpic Plans Study to Build $4b Project
Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) plans to conduct a study for a proposed steam cracker plant to produce polypropylene and polyethylene as part of its business development p...
5/14/2013 - Polyethylene - Oman
Technip Awarded EPCI Contract in Norway
Technip was awarded by Statoil an engineering, procurement, construction and installation lump-sum contract for the Norne field development, located in the Norwegian Sea at a water depth of approximat...
5/14/2013 - Pipes - Norway
Gazprom & Petrovietnam Sign MOU in Natural Gas Use
In Moscow Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Nguyen Vu Truong Son, Vice President of Petrovietnam State Oil and Gas Corporation signed in the presence of Dmitry M...
5/14/2013 - Diesel Fuel - Russia
Cathelco Supply Pipework Anti-Fouling Systems
Cathelco have won a series of orders to supply seawater pipework anti-fouling systems for jackup rigs which are to be built by Lamprell Energy Ltd, the UAE based provider of diversified engineering se...
5/13/2013 - Cathodic Protection - United Arab Emirates
Mashreq to Build Fuel Terminal on the Suez Canal
Citadel Capital, the leading investment company in Africa and the Middle East, announced today that core platform company Mashreq Petroleum has signed a 25-year concession agreement with the East Port...
5/13/2013 - Tankers - Egypt
Gazprom Neft Launches New Associated Gas Utilization Project
Gazprom Neft is beginning a project to build a compressor station at Yety-Purovskoye field (developed by Gazprom Neft Noyabrskneftegaz) in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The new compressor station, w...
5/13/2013 - Compressors, Gas - Russia
The Light-Sweet/Heavy-Sour Crude Spread
In Europe, sweet/sour differentials narrowed as demand for medium-sour Urals received a boost from arbitrage with several cargoes seen leaving for both Asia and the USGC over March. The drop in the li...
5/13/2013 - Crude Oil - Austria
Tanker Market - May 13
Global fixtures in April declined by 2.4% compared with the previous month to average 17.44 mb/d. According to preliminary data, OPEC spot fixtures were stable from last month’s level to average12.8...
5/12/2013 - Tankers - Austria
Product Markets and Refinery Operations - May 13
Product markets continued losing ground in April due to sharp declines in light and middle distillate cracks, pressured by increasing supplies, along with weaker demand worldwide. Refinery margins i...
5/12/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - Austria
Iran to Build 6 Oil Refineries in Africa
Iran will establish six oil refineries in Africa, the chairman of the union of Iranian exporters of oil derivatives announced. ...
5/12/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - Iran
Sipchem Starts Up Ethyl Acetate & Butyl Acetate Plant
Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) announces the start-up of ethyl acetate (EA) & butyl acetate (BA) plant owned by Sipchem Chemicals Company (fully owned by Sipchem) at its complex i...
5/10/2013 - Petrochemicals - Saudi Arabia
Bowtech Wins Contract by ROVOP to Supply Cameras & Lights
Bowtech Products Ltd, a global market leader in subsea vision systems, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by ROVOP to supply cameras and lights, which will equip two new ROV systems. ...
5/9/2013 - Surveillance Equipment - Scotland
Sionix Reports Results From Second Frack Water Treatment
Sionix Corporation announced that it has completed the second and final demonstration phase of testing its proprietary water treatment technology in the Williston Basin of North Dakota. ...
5/9/2013 - Waste Water Treatment Plant - United States
Ophir & BG Group Extend Deepsea Metro I Rig Contract
Ophir Energy plc (Ophir) announces that it has secured a drilling rig and executed a letter of agreement for Rig Share Assignment with BG Group for the continuation of its 2013- 2014 East African offs...
5/9/2013 - Rigs, Coring & Exploration - Tanzania
The Crude Oil Futures Market Structure
The Nymex WTI market structure narrowed over the month as new pipelines started to reduce the bottleneck in the Cushing area, the home of WTI. The Longhorn pipeline — which was reversed to run from Cr...
5/9/2013 - Crude Oil - Austria
Emerson’s Americas Headquarters for Valve Technologies
Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson, has opened its new $30 million Americas headquarters for valve automation technologies and a new, highly automated and sophisticated manufacturing fa...
5/8/2013 - Valve Actuators - United States
Technip Awarded Two Subsea Contracts in Canada
Technip was awarded by Husky Oil Operations two contracts, with a combined substantial value, for the planned subsea tieback of the South White Rose Extension field. The field is an extension of the W...
5/8/2013 - Umbilical Lines - Canada
Daniel 3818 Ultrasonic Flow Meter for LNG Applications
Emerson Process Management announces the new Daniel 3818 Liquid Ultrasonic Flow Meter for liquefied natural gas applications. Specifically designed for reducing flow measurement uncertainty throughout...
5/7/2013 - Ultrasonic Flowmeter - United States
Sulzer Pumps Supplies to New FPSO Vessel in Brazil
Sulzer Pumps will supply 3 water injection pump packages and topside API 610 process pumps for installation on a new FPSO vessel that will operate in the Iracema Norte area of a pre-salt oil field off...
5/7/2013 - Pumps: Centrifugal - Brazil
KONGSBERG Secures Contract for Advanced Seismic Vessel
Kongsberg Evotec AS, a Kongsberg Maritime company, will provide the complete back deck solution for handling of up to 20 streamers simultaneously aboard a GC Rieber owned new-build seismic exploration...
5/7/2013 - Geophysical Equipment/Locator & downhole - Norway
Emerson to Supply Control Systems for Dockwise’s Vessel
Dockwise, a global leader in the transport and offshore installation of extremely large and heavy structures, has selected Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson, to supply the control syst...
5/6/2013 - Monitoring & Control - Netherlands/Holland
Nexans Wins 25 Million Euro Contract for Lianzi Project
Nexans, a worldwide expert in the cable industry, has been awarded a 25 million Euro contract by Subsea 7, a global leader in seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services to the offshore e...
5/6/2013 - Pipeline Heating Equipment - Angola
INOVA Launches G3i Digital for Subsurface Imaging
INOVA Geophysical announces the launch of G3i Digital, a new high-capacity, cable-based land seismic acquisition system that captures higher resolution, multicomponent data for enhanced imaging and im...
5/6/2013 - Cables - United States
CHC Helicopter to Provide Flying Services for Shell
Shell International Exploration and Production B.V. has selected CHC Helicopter, the world’s leading offshore helicopter services provider, for a five-year, multi-million dollar contract to support Sh...
5/6/2013 - Helicopter - Canada
Siemens to Deliver 3 SGT-500 Gas Turbines to Nigeria
Siemens Energy has been awarded an order for three of its model SGT-500 gas turbines, marking the first deliveries of such units to Nigeria. Customer is Edo Cement, a company belonging to the Nigerian...
5/3/2013 - Turbines: Gas - Nigeria
Saipem Selects BMT for Riser Monitoring in Brazil
Saipem has contracted BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT) a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, to provide riser monitoring systems for two Free Standing Risers (FSHRs) and four Steel Lazy Wave Risers (SLWR...
5/2/2013 - Pipes - Brazil
ABB Acquires LGR, Adding Innovative Gas Analytical Solutions
ABB, a global leader in electric power and automation, announced that it has agreed to acquire Los Gatos Research (LGR) of Mountain View, California, to add a new line of high-performance gas analyzer...
5/2/2013 - Analyzers, Gas - United States
EMAS Wins US$75 Million SURF EPCI Contract from Statoil
EMAS AMC, the subsea services division of EMAS, a leading global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry and the operating brand of Ezra Hol...
5/2/2013 - Manifold - Norway
Havyard Orders MacGregor Cranes for New Nigerian IMR Vessel
In April, MacGregor, part of Cargotec, signed an order with Norwegian shipyard, Havyard Ship Technology AS, for two MacGregor offshore cranes. Both will be installed on a new Havyard 857 subsea inspec...
5/2/2013 - Cranes - Nigeria
Rialto Enters Agreement Regarding Vantage Sapphire Rig
The Company has entered into an agreement with Vantage Drilling Company (Vantage) regarding payment terms in relation to the early termination of the rig contract regarding the Vantage Sapphire Drilli...
5/1/2013 - Rigs - Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire)
Genel Signs Rig Contract for African Drilling Programme
Genel Energy is pleased to announce that it has signed a drilling rig contract with Noble Corporation (Noble) for its African offshore drilling programme. The Noble Paul Romano deepwater, semi-submers...
5/1/2013 - Rigs - United Kingdom
Crude Oil & Oil Products Export for April 2013
SOCAR Marketing and Economic Operations Department exported 159 thousand 155 tons of crude oil from the Novorossiysk Port, 242 thousand 367 tons of crude oil from the Supsa Port, and 1 million 830 tho...
5/1/2013 - Crude Oil - Azerbaijan
Iran Invests $10bln in Gas-Oil Separation Capacity
Iran plans to increase investment in gas-oil separation projects in the Fifth Five-Year Development Plan (2010-2015), a deputy oil minister, adding that the country has already invested a sum of $10 b...
5/1/2013 - Separators - Iran
Emerson Extends Alarm Management & Actuator Capability
Emerson Process Management has released cost-saving new diagnostic capabilities in its FieldQ rack & pinion fully integrated valve actuator and controls. The updated capabilities greatly simplify dail...
4/30/2013 - Monitoring & Control - United States
New Gateway from Semaphore Integrates Multiple Device Types
CSE-Semaphore, a CSE Global company, has announced a new gateway that enables multiple device types to connect to cellular and IP SCADA networks. The TBox TG2 TeleControl Gateway is the first remote g...
4/30/2013 - Monitoring & Control - United States
Woodside Agreed to Use Shell’s FLNG Technology
Woodside advises that it has entered into an agreement with Shell that sets out the key principles that would apply if the Browse resources are developed using Shell’s Floating LNG (FLNG) technology....
4/30/2013 - LNG Processing - Australia
Rosneft and Mitsui Sign MOU to Jointly Develop FEPCO Project
Rosneft and Mitsui signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop FEPCO project - one of the largest petrochemical projects globally. The MoU was signed by Rosneft President and Chairman of t...
4/29/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - Russia
COSL Signed Contract for 12-Streamer Seismic Vessel
China Oilfield Services Limited signed an agreement to commission construction of 12-Streamer Seismic Vessel, HYSY721 by Shanghai Shipyard Co. Ltd. ...
4/26/2013 - Geophysical Equipment/Locator & downhole - China
Emerson’s Fisher L2e Controller for Level Applications
The Fisher L2e level controller brings fully electric level control to a wide variety of applications in production and processing systems. ...
4/25/2013 - Liquid Measurement - United States
BMT Awarded Patent for its Strain Measurement System
BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has been granted a patent for its strain measurement system and unique attachment scheme that can be integrated into the insulation...
4/24/2013 - Steel Pipes - United States
RAE Introduces ProRAE Guardian Software Development Kit
RAE Systems Inc., the leader in innovative toxic-gas and radiation detection solutions, announced the introduction of ProRAE Guardian™ SDK, the industry’s first open XML-based software development kit...
4/24/2013 - Gas Software - United States
Yokogawa Releases FIELDEYE II Camera for Plant Monitoring
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the April 26 release of the first model in the new FIELDEYE II series of all-weather CCD cameras for the monitoring of plant facilities and premises. This new m...
4/24/2013 - Surveillance Equipment - United States
The Crude Oil Futures Market
Crude oil futures prices declined in the month of March, with prices for both Brent and WTI falling well below last month’s highs. Reduced refinery demand due to substantial maintenance worldwide was ...
4/24/2013 - Crude Oil - Austria
Asian Product Markets and Refinery Operations – Mar 2013
The Asian market became bearish on the back of weak regional demand which — along with increasing supplies — caused cracks to fall, despite heavy maintenance in the region.

The gasoline cra...
4/24/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - China
Gazprom LNG Production and Supply Strategy
The Gazprom Board of Directors took notice of the information about the progress with preparing proposals on updating the Gazprom LNG Production and Supply Strategy. ...
4/23/2013 - LNG Processing - Russia
NISOC Signed Contract with Domestic Supplier
A contact between National Iranian South oilfields company (NISOC) and a domestic supplier was signed on the sideline of the 18th International Oil, Gas, Refining & Petrochemical Exhibition in Tehran....
4/23/2013 - Gas Processing - Iran
CUI Global Acquires Orbital Gas Systems for $26.2 Million
CUI Global, Inc., a platform company dedicated to the acquisition, development, and commercialization of new, innovative technologies, announced that, effective April 18, 2013, it has closed on its ac...
4/22/2013 - Gas meters - United Kingdom
Yamal LNG & Integra Sign Multi-Year Service Contract
Integra Group announces that it has signed a multi-year service contract with JSC Yamal LNG. The agreement covers development drilling services to be provided at the South-Tambeyskoye field on the Yam...
4/22/2013 - Drilling Equipment - Russia
TATNEFT Produced a Millionth SSC Tire
A millionth SSC-design tire was manufactured at OOO "Nizhnekamsk SSC Tire Factory" on April 19, 2013. The jubilee KAMA NT-201 tire of 385/65 R22,5 size was assembled by the best assembly workers of t...
4/22/2013 - Tires - Russia
US Product Markets and Refinery Operations – March 2013
US gasoline demand stood at around 8.5 mb/d in March, a level similar to that of the previous month, but down by around 170 tb/d from the same month a year earlier. The gasoline cracks managed to keep...
4/20/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - United States
Brooks Instrument Launches MT3809 Variable Area Flow Meter
Brooks Instrument, a world-leading provider of advanced flow, pressure, vacuum, level and vapor delivery solutions, has launched the MT3809 armored variable area (VA) flow meter, an instrument designe...
4/19/2013 - Variable Area Flowmeter - United States
New Automatic Filling Station Opened in Almetyevsk
Another automatic TATNEFT's filling station has been opened at Mira Street in Almetyevsk (Republic of Tatarstan). ...
4/19/2013 - Petrochemicals - Russia
Petrobras Signs Contracts for 23 New Support Vessels
Petrobras has signed contracts for 23 support vessels, as part of the 3rd Fleet Renewal Plan for Offshore Support Vessels. The units, type PSV 4500 and OSRV 750, fulfill 60% local content requirements...
4/18/2013 - Vessels Internals - Brazil
Omsk Refinery Produces over 1 Million Tons of Euro 4 and Euro 5 Gasoline in 1Q 2013
The Gazprom Neft Omsk Oil Refinery processed 3.7 percent more oil in the first quarter of 2013 than it did in the first quarter of the previous year, bringing its total refining volume up to 5.09 mill...
4/18/2013 - Gasoline (Lead free) - Russia
Noble Awarded Contracts for 2 Ultra-Deepwater Drillships
Noble Corporation announced that the Company has entered into two (2) three-year term drilling contracts with Plains Exploration & Production Company for the Noble Sam Croft and the Noble Tom Madden, ...
4/18/2013 - Rig Equipment - United States
Marubeni & Rosneft Sign MOU for Strategic Partnership
Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) signed a Memorandum for Strategic Partnership with Russia’s largest national oil company (Rosneft) in LNG project implementation in the Russian Far East and joint oil a...
4/18/2013 - LNG Processing - Russia
FPI Mag Flow Meter Delivers High Accuracy
Municipal and industrial engineers will find McCrometer’s popular FPI MagTM (Full Profile Insertion) Electromagnetic Flow Meter now features the new M-Series Converter, providing excellent accuracy to...
4/18/2013 - Flowmeters - United States
Nexans to Supply Electro/Hydraulic Subsea Umbilical
Nexans, a worldwide expert in the cable industry, has made a breakthrough in the Malaysia offshore sector with the award of a major contract by Persada Engineering to supply an electro/hydraulic subse...
4/18/2013 - Umbilical Lines - Malaysia
Wartsila to Provide Integrated Power, Propulsion & Positioning System for DP3 Offshore Rig in China
Wartsila, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, will supply a comprehensive, fully integrated power, propulsion and positioning system for a DP3 Dynamically Positioned offshor...
4/17/2013 - Vessels, Tanks - China
First International Conference of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering launched
The opening ceremony of the First International Conference on Problems of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of the National Leader Heydar Aliyev was held at Gulustan...
4/17/2013 - Chemicals - Azerbaijan
Amarcon & GTT Sign Agreement on Sloshing Prevention Tech
Amarcon, a member of the ABB group, announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with GTT (Gaztransport & Technigaz) to market and further develop a forecasting and advice software system for ...
4/17/2013 - Gas Software - Netherlands/Holland
JDR Marks Deployment of Subsea Umbilical Contract for CNOOC
JDR, a leading provider of technology connecting the global offshore energy industry, has deployed a range of dynamic subsea production umbilicals and ESP power cables for the China National Offshore ...
4/16/2013 - Umbilical Lines - China
Rag Sefid Blaze brought under control
Managing Director of National Iranian South Oilfields Company announced that a blow-out in Rag Sefid Well 120 has successfully been brought under control. ...
4/16/2013 - Blowout Preventers Ram, Rotary, Spherical & Annular - Iran
Gazprom and ANRE Address IR for Vladivostok LNG
Fukui (Japan) hosted the eighth meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) between Gazprom and the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE) under the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade a...
4/16/2013 - LNG Processing - Russia
Aker Wins GirRI Phase 2 Umbilical Contract from Technip
Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract from Technip to deliver umbilicals for the Girassol Resources Initiative (GirRI) phase 2 development off the coast of Angola. Contract value is undisclosed. ...
4/16/2013 - Umbilical Lines - Angola
Lukoil Receives a Transport and Installation Barge
A transport and installation barge (TIB) ordered by LUKOIL arrived at the Astrakhan sea floating depot. The Company will utilize the TIB for the construction of offshore platforms at the Vladimir Fila...
4/15/2013 - Barges - Russia
MacGregor Secures 3rd Crane Contract for Volstad Maritime
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured its third identical offshore crane contract for Volstad Maritime AS series of 125m offshore construction vessels being built by Bergen Group Fosen shipyard in ...
4/15/2013 - Cranes - Norway
Algeria Plans Six New Oil Refineries
Algeria plans to double its oil refining capacity in the next five years by building 6 new refineries, Oil Minister Youcef Yousfi said on a visit to Britain. ...
4/15/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - Algeria
PSI Awarded Contract for Control System from Denmark
PSI has been contracted to deliver a common network control system for thirteen Danish energy companies in Jutland. The new system based on PSI control will replace the thirteen former ABB individual ...
4/15/2013 - SCADA Systems - Denmark
Uganda Reaches Deal with Total, CNOOC over Refinery
Uganda, France's Total and China's CNOOC have agreed to build a small oil refinery in the east African country, Uganda's government said, in a step towards resolving disagreements that have delayed co...
4/15/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - Uganda
Marubeni and SK to Co-Own Two LNG Vessels to Total
Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) in collaboration with (Korea) SK Shipping Co., Ltd. (SK Shipping) has concluded long-term charter contracts of LNG carriers for a UK subsidiary of the French Oil Major,...
4/15/2013 - LNG Carriers - Australia
Cairn Secures Rig for Frontier Exploration Campaign
Cairn is pleased to announce it has secured a long term contract with Transocean for the “Cajun Express” drilling unit. ...
4/15/2013 - Rigs - Senegal
Delivery of 4 Process Modules for Nylon 6,6 Plant
Petrochemical Conversion Company Ltd. (PCC) announced the successful transport of four process modules to the Port of Jubail in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the company’s new world-scale nylon 6,6 ...
4/13/2013 - Petrochemicals - Saudi Arabia
Iran Sets to Launch Initial Phase of Its First LNG Plant
Regardless of European Union futile attempts putting ban on Irans energy sector,the country is ready to launch the initial phase of its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, state-run Mehr News Age...
4/13/2013 - LNG Processing - Iran
Wison and Black & Veatch to Jointly Pursue Offshore LNG Projects
Shanghai-based Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of the Wison Group, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Black & Veatch to jointly pursue barge-based natural gas lique...
4/12/2013 - LNG Processing - China
RAE Shows Gas, Radiation Detection on iPads & Smartphones
RAE Systems, the leader in toxic gas detection systems and portable detectors, announced that as part of its ongoing commitment to enhance safety through reduction in incident response times for first...
4/12/2013 - Detector, Gas - United States
EMAS Wins $120m Contracts in GoM, West Africa, Philippines
EMAS, the operating brand of Ezra Holdings, a leading global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, announced four contracts totalling clo...
4/12/2013 - Umbilical Lines - United States
Tanker Market - Apr 13
According to preliminary data, global spot fixtures increased in March by 6.5% to average 17.89 mb/d. OPEC spot fixtures saw an increase as well, by 4.1% from the previous month to average 12.81 mb/...
4/12/2013 - Tankers - Austria
Product Markets and Refinery Operations - Apr 13
Product markets turned bearish during March — losing the ground gained over the previous months — due to declines in light and middle distillate cracks. Markets weakened under the pressure of increa...
4/12/2013 - Oil Treating & Refining - Austria
Crude Oil Price Movements - Apr 13
OPEC Reference Basket
The OPEC Reference Basket retreated by more than 5% in March to average $106.44/b. The decline was the largest since the 14% drop in June last year. The Basket’s va...
4/12/2013 - Crude Oil - Austria



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