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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
F the rhetoric of West Australian Premier Colin Barnett holds true, Chevron's $50 billion Gorgon LNG export project will save, single-handedly, the resource-dependent state from one of its periodic lulls.
"It really has this huge multiplier effect and is a huge economic stimulus project in its own right," Barnett says.
Then there's Woodside with its $12 billion Pluto project and proposed Kimberley Browse development. Easterners, stop sniggering at those State of Excitement number plates.
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Thursday 7 May, 2009 01:34 PM |
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Western Australia's Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has recommended approval of Chevron's proposed expansion of its massive Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on Barrow Island.
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Thursday 30 April, 2009 05:50 PM |
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Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company Limited ( Samref) has awarded a US $400 million (SAR 1.5 billion) contract to Australia’s Worley Parsons for a clean fuels project at its Yanbu refinery.
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Sunday 26 April, 2009 12:03 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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EXPENDITURE by shareholders on the pre-Final Investment Decision works at the site of the $8.5bn Brass LNG project at Brass, Bayelsa State, could rise from $600m to $1bn (N145bn) by year end.
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Thursday 23 April, 2009 09:54 AM |
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The Alaska Gas Pipeline LLC (“Denali”) has announced that it has awarded an engineering contract for the Gas Mainline Project to Bechtel , a world class engineering firm. The mainline project includes the pipeline and
associated compressor stations from Alaska's North Slope to Alberta, Canada.
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Saturday 4 April, 2009 03:19 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
BHP Billiton has awarded Stress Subsea a contract for the water injection design engineering for the Shenzi field development project in the Gulf of Mexico. The award includes four basic work scopes covering subsea hardware, umbilicals, risers, and flowline systems (SURF).
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Thursday 2 April, 2009 08:07 AM |
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SANTOS'S proposed $7.7 billion project to convert coal seam gas to liquefied natural gas in Queensland has taken a step forward with the submission of its draft environmental impact statement.
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Wednesday 1 April, 2009 02:30 PM |
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Late in 2008, Fort Hills Energy L.P. (with Petro-Canada as 60% owner and operator) defers the final investment decision on the mining portion of its Fort Hills oil sands project until costs can be reduced, and commodity prices and financial markets strengthen. Also at this time, the Sturgeon Upgrader portion of the project is put on hold; a decision on whether to proceed will be made at a later date.
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Tuesday 24 March, 2009 02:32 PM |
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The design of a Rio Tinto coal mine in Clermont that has become the first in Australia to use paste thickening technology, has recently been completed by global engineering firm, Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), using employees strictly from Australia and Asia only.
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Tuesday 24 March, 2009 08:30 AM |
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Apache Corp. , operator of a A$900 million ($585 million) natural gas venture in Western Australia, awarded Clough Ltd. a contract for the engineering of the onshore processing plant after resuming work on the project.
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Thursday 5 March, 2009 07:15 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Speaking to Foreign oil companies' representatives, the Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) Shukri Ghanem stressed that Libya was determined to carry out a policy of Libyanization of engineering projects.
"We are looking for long term gains not short term ones. We are concerned that most of the engineering work is done outside the country," Ghanem told the large number of oil companies' representatives who gathered for the meeting
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Monday 2 March, 2009 02:11 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
Low-impact oil and gas drilling is the goal of a new collaborative research program announced today by the Houston Advanced Research Center and the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University.
The research targets advanced technologies that can be used to open up environmentally sensitive areas currently off limits to drilling and production.
New systems will be designed to be compatible with environmentally sensitive or off-limits areas such as federal lands in the Western United States, the wetlands of the Gulf Coast, and the Alaskan North Slope.
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Tuesday 17 February, 2009 05:32 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
Iraq has awarded Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contracts to international companies to build four major new refineries with a combined total capacity of 750,000 bpd, Iraqi oil sources said recently.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 06:05 PM |
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Sheffield heavy engineering concern, DavyMarkham has been awarded a massive $20 million order for the supply of mining hoists and associated electrical drives and controls, by top mid-tier gold producer IAMGOLD Corporation of Toronto, Canada. The contract includes the largest double drum hoist supplied to North America in recent times, with a diameter of 21ft (6.4m), a drum width of 8ft (2.4m) and a payload capacity of 44,000lbs (20,000kg). It will serve as the main production hoist, operating at depths down to 8,700ft (2,652 metres), at IAMGOLD’s exciting new Westwood exploration programme.
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Wednesday 4 February, 2009 12:00 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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When the Federal Government introduced the Local Content Initiative in the nation’s oil and gas sector in 2006, everybody including the local and multi-national players applauded it as a decision in the right direction to stimulate indigenous participation, build capacities, increase the Gross Domestic Products and ultimately, reposition the nation’s ailing economy.
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Saturday 31 January, 2009 01:25 PM |
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Geovic Mining Corp , on behalf of its 60%-owned subsidiary Geovic Cameroon PLC (GeoCam), is pleased to provide an update on progress at its Nkamouna cobalt-nickel-manganese project (Project) in Cameroon, Africa, as well as an outline of research programs and testing currently underway to improve its financial performance.
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Sunday 25 January, 2009 03:57 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
State-owned petroleum company PetroSA has appointed US-based and NYSE-listed engineering firm KBR the engineering contractor for Project Mthombo, the proposed $11-billion, 400 000-bl/d Coega crude oil refinery.
Speaking in Cape Town, PetroSA president and CEO Sipho Mkhize stated that KBR had been contracted to work with PetroSA to provide feasibility and front-end engineer- ing and design (FEED) study services for the project. He also expressed the hope that the final project cost would fall, given a possible shift in power relations between buyers and suppliers as the world economy slowed.
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Sunday 25 January, 2009 10:56 AM |
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Advanced technology is being deployed in many sectors of the energy business. Here we cite three examples that demonstrate the use of Dassault Systèmes software in the fusion, oil exploration and wave power industries.
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Wednesday 21 January, 2009 07:26 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
Inpex Corp ., operator of a proposed $20 billion liquefied natural gas project in Australia, awarded a contract to JGC Corp., Chiyoda Corp. and KBR Inc. of the U.S. for initial engineering work, moving the plan closer to development.
The work to design the gas processing plant in Darwin will be carried out this year, with production slated to begin in late 2014 or early 2015, Inpex, Japan’s largest energy explorer, said today in a statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A separate contract for the development of the offshore gas fields will be signed “in due course,” it said.
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Sunday 18 January, 2009 05:54 AM |
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Inpex Corp ., operator of a proposed $20 billion liquefied natural gas project in Australia, awarded a contract to JGC Corp., Chiyoda Corp. and KBR Inc. of the U.S. for initial engineering work, moving the plan closer to development.
The work to design the gas processing plant in Darwin will be carried out this year, with production slated to begin in late 2014 or early 2015, Inpex, Japan’s largest energy explorer, said today in a statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A separate contract for the development of the offshore gas fields will be signed “in due course,” it said.
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Friday 16 January, 2009 07:35 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
Europe's refinery sector remains quite busy, but there are signs the falling crude oil prices and the global recession are beginning to have effects.
In Germany, Aker Solutions won a five-year framework contract by Deutsche BP AG for the provision of engineering and construction management services at its Erdol-Raffinerie Emsland (BP - Lingen) production facility in Germany. Typical projects will cover expansion projects; revamp; support for HSE management, turnaround management, and permitting; implementation of environmental legislative requirements; de-bottlenecking; and maintenance-driven projects. Project scope will extend across option development, feed studies, engineering, construction management, and commissioning support. The refinery started up in 1953, and its crude oil refining capacity today totals around 4 million metric tons per year. Output consists mainly of petrol and diesel, jet fuel, light heating oil, chemical precursor products for regional consumption and for customers based in Germany and in the neighboring Netherlands.
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Friday 9 January, 2009 07:01 AM |
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