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07/20/2005 -- Sabic signs letter ethlyene glycol plant
Saudi Basic Industries Corp. has signed a letter of intent with Toyo Engineering Co. of Japan for the engineering, materials supply, and construction of a 700,000-tonne/year ethylene glycol plant in the Yansab complex at Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.
07/20/2005 -- CHS to add coker at Laurel, Mont., refinery
CHS Inc., St. Paul, Minn., plans to invest $325 million to install a coker and other process modifications at its 55,000 b/d Laurel, Mont., refinery. The coker will increase gasoline and diesel yields.
07/20/2005 -- LG International buys Aromatics Oman stake
South Korea's LG International Corp. (LGI) will invest $60 million for a 20% stake in the $300 million Aromatics Oman LLC, a joint venture planning paraxylene and benzene plants in Oman's Sohar industrial complex.
07/13/2005 -- Sinochem bids again for Incheon refinery
China National Chemical Import & Export Co. is again bidding on South Korea's Incheon Oil Refinery Co. Ltd. Other bidders include subsidiaries of Citigroup Venture Capital, Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Inc., and local refiners SK Corp, GS Caltex, and S-Oil.
07/13/2005 -- Total, Neste Oy to study biodiesel venture
Total SA has signed an agreement with Finland's Neste Oy to study the feasibility of jointly building a new-generation biodiesel production unit in Europe.
07/12/2005 -- Sulfur processing facility due in Qatar
Qatargas Operating Co. Ltd. let a $360 million contract to a consortium of Washington Group International and Al Jaber Energy Services of Abu Dhabi for design, equipment, procurement, and construction services for a 12,000 tonne/day sulfur-handling facility in Qatar.
07/11/2005 -- Belarus refinery to get hydrogen unit
JSC Mozyr Oil Refinery has awarded Foster Wheeler Italiana SPA a contract for basic design of a grassroots hydrogen production unit at its 323,300 b/d refinery in Belarus. Terms of the award were not disclosed.
07/08/2005 -- Design funded for Sinopec refinery expansion
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) and units of ExxonMobil Corp. and Saudi Aramco agreed to finance the design work for a possible $3.5 billion expansion of a Sinopec refinery in southern China's Fujian Province.
07/07/2005 -- Canada awards $46 million to ethanol plants
Canada has allocated $46 million (Can.) to five companies to build or expand ethanol plants across Canada in a second round of funding under its Ethanol Expansion Program. The awards range from $7.3 million to $15 million.
07/07/2005 -- Shanghai petrochemical complex commissioned
Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical Co. Ltd., a joint venture of BP Group, Sinopec, and Shanghai Petrochemical Co., on June 30 completed final commissioning of its $2.7 billion SECCO petrochemical complex at the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park.
07/06/2005 -- Global Energy starts gas plant in Nigeria
Global Gas & Refining Ltd., a Nigerian subsidiary of Houston-managed Global Energy Inc., has started up its Cawthorne Channel gas processing plant in the Bonny River area in Nigeria. The 120 MMcfd, barge-mounted facility is the first indigenous-owned and operated gas processing plant in Africa, Global said.
06/29/2005 -- Turkish Petroleum to upgrade two refineries
The Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corp. (Tüpras) has selected Axens of France, to provide gasoline upgrading technology at Tüpras's Izmit and Izmir refineries in Turkey.
06/28/2005 -- Fluor tapped for Olefins II work in Kuwait
A joint venture of Kuwait Petroleum Corp.'s Petrochemical Industries Co. and a Dow Chemical Co. subsidiary signed an MOU with Fluor Corp. to provide services for the Olefins II project in Kuwait.
06/28/2005 -- NIGC lets contract to Costain for Iranian gas plant
National Iranian Gas Co. has awarded a $1.6 billion contract for construction of the Bid Boland II gas processing plant in southwestern Iran to a joint venture led by Costain Oil, Gas & Process Ltd., an affiliate of the Costain Group PLC, Manchester, UK.
06/23/2005 -- BP's Alberta straddle plants shut down
A storm-related power failure in the Empress, Alta., area June 21, resulted in power failure and damages to the Empress I, Empress II, and Empress V straddle plants operated by a BP Canada Energy Co. affiliate.
06/23/2005 -- Enterprise Products to expand NGL system
Enterprise Products Partners LP is expanding its natural gas liquids transportation system in the Permian basin and Midcontinent regions.
06/22/2005 -- Oman Refining Co. to expand capacity
Oman Refining Co. LLC plans a $320-million project to expand capacity of its refinery at Mina Al Fahal to 106,000 b/d from 85,000 b/d, the Times of Oman reported June 15.
06/22/2005 -- Group to finance coker at Chilean refinery
A consortium led by Chile's Empresa Nacional del Petroleo agreed to finance, build, and operate a 20,000 b/d delayed coker at the 94,350 b/cd Aconcagua refinery at Concon, Chile.
06/22/2005 -- Chevron to expand Pascagoula refinery's FCCU
Chevron Global Refining plans to expand the fluid catalytic cracking unit at its 325,000-b/d refinery at Pascagoula, Miss.
06/15/2005 -- Innovene, Delta study Saudi petrochem plant
BP PLC's petrochemicals and refining subsidiary Innovene and Delta International, a Saudi-owned independent development company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to begin negotiations to build a world-scale cracker and associated derivative capacity in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

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