Projects

Keep track with new project development across the globe in various sectors. We also cover existing projects (upgrades, extensions etc.).

CONTRACT SIGNED WITH SCHLUMBERGER FOR DRILLING

President Energy entered into an eighteen-month contract with Schlumberger for project management and integrated drilling and completion services, including well site supervision and engineering, for its Paraguay drilling program.  Peter Levine, Chairman, President Energy commented: “We are very pleased to have reached this agreement with Schlumberger.

New Jersey-New York pipeline starts service

Spectra Energy Corp successfully completed its New Jersey-New York Expansion Project. The new pipeline, an extension of Spectra Energy’s Texas Eastern and Algonquin Gas systems, is designed to bring approx.

Municipal spending for valves on the rise

Industrial Valves: World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company predicts that municipal wastewater plants will spend USD 4.5B for valves in 2017.

Wisconsin biomass plant begins operations

We Energies’ biomass-fueled power plant began its commercial operations on November 8, 2013 after successfully completing all preliminary testing and commissioning duties.

New South Texas pipeline project announced

Energy Transfer Partners, a natural gas and propane company, has signed a deal with Trafigura Beheer BV, a Holland-based global commodity trading company, to launch a new crude and condensate pipeline running from the Eagle Ford shale formation in South Texas to Corpus Christi on the Gulf Coast.

MRC Global awarded PVF deal

Chevron Phillips Chemical, Chevron Phillips’ chemical company, has given a framework agreement to McJunkin Red Man Corporation, a subsidiary of MRC Global.

ICA Fluor to build VCM plant in Mexico

Fluor Corporation’s ICA Fluor industrial engineering-construction joint venture with Empresas ICA signed a contract with Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo (PMV), a joint venture between Mexichem, the Mexican petrochemical company, and Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil and gas company, for the revamp of the vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant located within the Pajaritos petrochemical complex, near Veracruz.

Networking galore at Offshore Energy 2013

By David Sear (Scroll down for video interviews)  Held on 15 and 16 October in Amsterdam, the 2013 Offshore Energy show delivered a strong conference programme plus a broad exhibition covering various energy angles: oil & gas, wind, wave and tidal.

Praxair opens air separation plant in Brazil

White Martins, the Brazil-based subsidiary of Praxair, has started up a new 800-ton-per-day air separation plant in the state of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil.

EP PetroEcuador extends Esmeraldas Refinery contract

EP PetroEcuador (Empresa Estatal Petróleos del Ecuador), the national oil company of Ecuador, has extended WorleyParsons’ Project Management Consultancy Services contract for the Esmeraldas Refinery Rehabilitation Project.