Neptune Energy Group and Algeria’s Sonatrach have started natural gas production as part of the commissioning of the partnership’s Touat project in the Sbaa basin, 1,500 km southwest of Algiers, near Adrar. The development, which will produce about 450 MMcfd of gas at plateau, remains on track to begin gas export production by the end of this year’s first half.
State-owned Sonatrach has let a contract to Larsen & Toubro Ltd. subsidiary L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE) to provide engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning services for three central gas processing plants near to each other in southwest Algeria’s Adrar Province.
Hindustan Oil Exploration Co. Ltd., Chennai, has placed on stream a modular gas processing plant at Dirok natural gas field in Assam, where it plans to drill four wells under a revised plan for second-phase development. The Hollong plant, about 10 km south of Digboi, can process 35 MMscfd of gas and 800 b/d of condensate. HOEC called it “a first of its kind in India.”
SemCAMS, a subsidiary of SemGroup Corp., has completed startup of its Wapiti sour gas processing plant to serve Montney producers in the Wapiti region of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The 200-MMcfd plant began processing raw sour gas on Jan. 27 and is now fully operational, more than 2 months ahead of the original Apr. 1 target, SemGroup said.
ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Vietnam and its joint venture partners PetroVietnam and PetroVietnam Exploration Production have let an onshore-offshore front-end engineering and design contract to Saipem’s XSIGHT divition for the Ca Voi Xanh (Blue Whale) project in Vietnam.
ConocoPhillips has set a capital expenditure budget for 2019 of $6.1 billion, which is flat to its expected full-year 2018 capex, excluding acquisition costs. The 2019 budget does not reflect potential dispositions that may occur in 2019.
Cogent Midstream has let a contract to Honeywell UOP for the previously announced expansion of natural gas processing capacity in the lower Midland basin of West Texas that will add a refrigerated cryogenic processing plant at the same location as its existing Big Lake gas plant in Reagan County, Tex.
Limetree Bay Refining LLC (LBR), a subsidiary of ArcLight Capital Partners LLC, has reached an agreement in principle with the supply and trading arm of an unidentified international oil company to restart the idled 500,000-b/d refinery at Limetree Bay on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands.
Brazos Midstream, with an 85% interest, will operate a newly formed joint venture in the Delaware basin with Williams Cos. Inc. Under terms of the agreement, Williams will contribute its existing Delaware basin assets to the partnership in exchange for a 15% minority position.
Tidewater Midstream & Infrastructure has let a contract to the Canadian subsidiary of WorleyParsons to build a sour gas processing plant near Grande Prairie, Alta. As part of the contract, WorleyParsonsCord will provide fabrication and construction services for Tidewater’s 100-MMcfd Pipestone sour, deep-cut gas plant with acid gas injection, which also will have the capability to process 20,000 b/d of NGLs.
Enterprise Products Partners is launching a series of projects to expand fractionation capacity by 55,000 b/d at its existing operations in Texas and Louisiana. As part of the initiative, EPP plans to optimize its Shoup fractionator in Nueces County, Tex., by expanding and repurposing a portion of the partnership’s South Texas pipeline system, including construction of 21 miles of pipeline along with the conversion of 65 miles of existing natural gas pipeline to NGL service to enable EPP to supply
Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP) is planning an additional incremental 150,000-b/d expansion to its existing NGL fractionation complex in Mont Belvieu, Tex. To become the eleventh NGL fractionator at the site, this new unit would increase EPP’s NGL fractionation capacity to 1 million b/d in the Mont Belvieu area and about 1.5 million b/d companywide once service begins, the company said.
Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP) has started construction of a seventh natural gas processing plant in the Delaware basin. Situated in Loving County, Tex., the Mentone cryogenic gas processing plant will have the capacity to process 300 MMcfd of gas and extract more than 40,000 b/d of NGLs upon its startup in first-quarter 2020, EPP said.
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) Sour Gas, a subsidiary joint venture of ADNOC and Occidental Petroleum Corp., is set to build a pipeline to carry molten sulfur produced by its Shah field sour gas operations.
