- RasGas's Train 4 Is On Stream.
The 4.7m t/y Europe-bound Train 4 of Qatar's Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited (RasGas) came on stream late last month and its first shipments will reach their market in late December or early January. The train was officially inaugurated by the Qatari Emir, Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani ......
- IRAN - Big Increase In Fertiliser
Production.
Iran is predicting to increase its chemical fertiliser production to 6.7 million tons per annum in twenty years, and azotes would account for 4.3 million tons/year. Iran's current production of chemical fertilisers averages 3 million tons/year. "Iran needs four million tons per year of chemical fertilisers and we have to ......
- QatarGas-II Contracts Signed; $4 Bn Plant Goes To
Technip/Chiyoda.
Qatar Petroleum (QP) and ExxonMobil on Dec. 15 signed finance and EPC contracts to move ahead with their $12 bn integrated QatarGas-II project which will export LNG to Britain. QatarGas-II is one of the world's largest LNG export ventures. The deals flesh out an initial agreement for the project which ......
- Troubled area still carries plenty of sway in
petroleum industry.
The significance of the Middle East to global oil and gas marts for the foreseeable future cannot be underestimated. According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, June 2005, countries there hold 733.9 billion barrels, or 61.7% of the world's proved oil reserves and 2,570.8 Tcf, or 40.6%, of ......
- CB&I Awarded LNG Liquefaction Project in Peru.
Will Provide EPFC for South America's First Baseload LNG Export Facility THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- CB&I (NYSE:CBI) has been awarded a contract by Peru LNG S.R.L. for the engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and commissioning of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) liquefaction plant in Pampa Malchorita, Peru, located about 170 kilometers ......
- QatarGas II LNG Plant To Be Awarded Shortly; RasGas
III Tender Will Follow.
The EPC contract for LNG Trains 4&5 of the Qatar Liquefied Gas Company-II (QatarGas-II) venture is to be awarded before end-2004, with first gas production for this due in late 2007. Each of these trains will have a capacity of 7.8 million tons/year, the biggest in the world, with the ......
- TURKMENISTAN - Petrochemicals.
The Turkmen chemicals industry is small. There is potential for a large export-oriented petrochemical sector to develop in the country in view of its huge oil and gas resources, and its relatively small domestic market. Now Turkmenistan meets much of its needs for plastics and other petrochemical products through imports ......