Archive for the ‘New Plants’ Category

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 s…

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. …

Sharjah in 2018 became the latest United Arab Emirates monarchy to offer licensing rounds, seeking international partners for exploration and development. The offer follows licensing rounds by Abu Dhabi and Ras al Khaimah (RAK).

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 (…

South Louisiana Methanol (SLM) and new joint-venture partner Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp. are planning a $2.2-billion capital investment to build a grassroots methanol complex in St. James Parish, La. Originally announced in 2013 as a project o…

East Timor has moved to a majority interest in the Greater Sunrise natural gas fields with the acquisition of Shell’s 26.6% stake for $300 million. The acquisition follows the government’s purchase of ConocoPhillips’s 30% stake in the fields for $350 m…

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 …

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. will decide soon where to expand its carbon capture, utilization, and storage program in pursuit of its goal of capturing 250 MMscfd of carbon dioxide for use in enhanced oil recovery before 2030.

Gassco AS is in the process of restarting its Kollsnes gas processing plant and associated Vestprosess condensate pipeline in western Norway after a collision between two ships off the Sture terminal near Bergen early Nov. 8 led to closure of the insta…

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…