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HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a basic engineering design and front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for two grassroots refineries in Brazil ..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Technip has been awarded an engineering, procurement services and construction-management contract by Total to increase hydrocracker capacity at the Normandy refinery located in Gonfreville, France. T..

HP Construction: Africa

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Technip has been awarded a contract by Sonatrach, the Algerian national oil company, for refurbishment and revamping of the Algiers refinery. This lump-sum turnkey contract, worth approximately $908 m..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has awarded a seven-year engineering and maintenance services contract (EMC) to Wood Group–CCC, a joint venture set up to provide operations and maintenance servi..

HP Construction: Asia-Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

CB&I has announced that Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by Liaoning Tongyi Petrochemical Co., Ltd., for the license and engineering design of grassroots olefins-conversion technology (OC..

Enerkem gets loan guarantee for Mississippi waste-to-fuel biorefinery

Enerkem Corp. has obtained a conditional commitment for an $80 million loan guarantee by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), for the construction of its waste-to-biofuels project in Pontotoc, Mississippi, which will transform Northeast Mississippi’s municipal solid waste into ethanol.

ONEOK Partners invests in additional natural gas processing plant in North Dakota

ONEOK Partners plans to invest another $260 million to $305 million between now and the end of 2014 for additional projects in the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin of North Dakota.

Deloitte expands energy analytics capabilities

Deloitte has acquired all of the assets of Altos Management Partners, Inc., a consultancy to energy companies that was founded in 1995, as well as those of MarketPoint, Inc., an Altos sister company best known for MarketBuilder, an analytic suite for energy market modeling and price forecasting.

Marathon splitting in two

The Board of Directors of Marathon Oil Corp. has approved moving forward with plans to spin off Marathon's downstream business, creating two independent energy companies.

Financial news for major energy companies, third quarter 2010

"Financial News for Major Energy Producers (the News)" is a report on the recent financial performance of major US energy producers.