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Processing 2006 P

  • Fri Dec 29 16:12:00 CST 2006 -- Shell lets effluent plant EPC to Saipem, partners
    Qatar Shell Ltd. awarded Saipem SPA and two partners a €255 million contract for the engineering, procurement, and construction of an effluent treatment plant to serve the planned 140,000 b/d Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in Qatar (OGJ Online, July 27, 2006).
  • Fri Dec 22 11:12:00 CST 2006 -- Petrotrin lets contract for catalytic reformer
    Petroleum Co. of Trinidad & Tobago Ltd. (Petrotrin) has awarded Samsung Engineering Corp. a contract to build a continuous catalytic reformer at Petrotrin's 175,000 b/d Point a Pierre refinery in Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Fri Dec 22 10:12:00 CST 2006 -- Kufpec joins GTL project in Papua New Guinea
    Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. (KUFPEC) has signed a joint development agreement with Syntroleum Corp. for development of a 50,000 b/d gas-to-liquids plant in Papua New Guinea.
  • Fri Dec 22 09:12:00 CST 2006 -- Correction made to Dec. 19 Sinclair article
    The Dec. 19 OGJ Online article "Sinclair managers plead guilty to CWA charges" contained an error.
  • Wed Dec 20 11:12:00 CST 2006 -- Dubai condensate refinery upgrade advances
    GE Oil & Gas will supply eight compressors and a steam turbine power generation set for an upgrade of Emirates National Oil Co.'s 120,000-b/d condensate refinery at Jebel Ali, Dubai.
  • Wed Dec 20 10:12:00 CST 2006 -- Ireland refinery producing renewable diesel
    ConocoPhillips has begun commercial production of renewable diesel from soybean oil and other vegetable oils at its 71,000-b/d Whitegate refinery in Cork, Ireland.
  • Tue Dec 19 12:12:00 CST 2006 -- Imperial investigates Sarnia refinery fire
    Imperial Oil Ltd. is investigating a Dec. 14 fire that caused the shutdown of the hydrocracker at its 120,800-b/cd refinery in Sarnia, Ont.
  • Tue Dec 19 12:12:00 CST 2006 -- Chevron starts up FCC unit at Pascagoula
    Chevron USA Inc. has brought online a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit at its 325,000 b/cd refinery in Pascagoula, Miss.
  • Tue Dec 19 12:12:00 CST 2006 -- Sinclair managers plead guilty to CWA charges
    Sinclair Tulsa Refining Co. and two of its managers pleaded guilty to felony pollution charges of violating the federal Clean Water Act (CWA), the US Environmental Protection Agency said on Dec. 15.
  • Tue Dec 19 12:12:00 CST 2006 -- PDVSA plans Caribbean-Pacific oil pipeline
    Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) plans to build a pipeline through Nicaragua to transport oil from the Caribbean to the Pacific, bypassing the Panama Canal.
  • Wed Dec 13 10:12:00 CST 2006 -- PTT lets contract for sixth gas-separation plant
    PTT Public Co. Ltd. has let a front-end engineering design and project management consultancy contract to Foster Wheeler International Corp. for its sixth gas-separation plant, GSP6, planned at Rayong, Thailand.
  • Tue Dec 12 11:12:00 CST 2006 -- Ecopetrol plans Barrancabermeja upgrade
    State-owned Ecopetrol has let a project management consulting contract to Technip for an upgrade of its 205,000 b/cd refinery in Barrancabermeja, Colombia.
  • Mon Dec 11 13:12:00 CST 2006 -- Grupa Lotos lets contract for Gdansk HDS unit
    Grupa Lotos SA, Poland's second largest refiner, let a contract to ABB of Zurich for the engineering, procurement, and construction of a diesel hydrodesulfurization (HDS) unit at its 90,000-b/cd refinery in Gdansk, Poland.
  • Fri Dec 08 11:12:00 CST 2006 -- HPCL seeks partners for Vizag refinery expansion
    State-run refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL) is seeking partners for investments, oil procurement, and product marketing as part of its proposed Visakhapatnam (Vizag) refinery expansion.
  • Tue Dec 05 12:12:00 CST 2006 -- Contracts let for French biodiesel plants
    Diester Industrie has let turnkey contracts to Technip for two biodiesel plants in France.
  • Mon Dec 04 15:12:00 CST 2006 -- Motiva lets Port Arthur refinery expansion EPC
    Motiva Enterprises LLC, Houston, plans to move forward with the final design and engineering phase of a proposed 325,000 b/d expansion of its 285,000 b/cd refinery in Port Arthur, Tex.
  • Mon Dec 04 12:12:00 CST 2006 -- Taiyo Oil upgrading to refine heavy oil
    Japan's Taiyo Oil Co., which refines petroleum products from light crude, plans to spend ¥50 billion to install cracking equipment for heavy oil at its Ehime Prefecture refinery.
  • Fri Dec 01 12:12:00 CST 2006 -- Neste plans second biodiesel plant at Porvoo
    Neste Oil plans to build a second 170,000-tonne/year biodiesel plant at its 200,000 b/cd refinery in Porvoo, Finland.
  • Fri Dec 01 12:12:00 CST 2006 -- Total starts up Gonfreville hydrocracker
    Total SA has brought on stream a €550 million distillate hydrocracker at its 330,000-b/d Gonfreville refinery in Normandy, France.
  • Thu Nov 30 11:11:00 CST 2006 -- Borouge lets ethylene cracker contract for UAE plant
    Borouge, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and European plastics provider Borealis, let a $1.3 billion, lump-sum turnkey contract to Linde Group and Consolidated Contractors Co. for construction of an ethylene cracker in the UAE.
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