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Project Management

Aramco picks Foster Wheeler to engineer Fadhili gas processing program

Foster Wheeler will execute the FEED for the grassroots Fadhili gas plant, which has a planned total processing capacity of 1.5 billion standard cubic feet per day (BSCFD) of non-associated gas.

Jacobs to provide program management at new US nitrogen fertilizer facility

Construction of the plant is expected to begin in November of 2014 and take three years to complete. Once operational, Midwest Fertilizer will make nitrogen-based fertilizers to supply domestic demand.

Neste Jacobs wins project management work for Gasum’s Finngulf LNG

The PMO office will in 2014, together with the other FEED engineering companies for the individual sub projects, prepare the material in order to enable Gasum to make the final investment decision for the combined Finngulf LNG investment, including Balticconnector, by end-of-year 2014.

Freeport LNG chooses CB&I, Zachry Industrial to build first two trains

HP Editorial Staff: HP News

CB&I and Zachry Industrial have been awarded two contracts, each valued at $2.5 billion, to construct the first two LNG trains of the Freeport liquefaction project in Texas.

Amec awarded services pact for Kuwait refineries

Amec will be responsible for a range of engineering and management services including feasibility studies, front end engineering design, project management consultancy services and training of Kuwaiti engineers.

Mitigate heat exchanger corrosion with better construction materials

Sandvik Materials Technology: Perea, E.

Better materials can provide optimal equipment service life, reduce maintenance, mitigate contamination by corrosion products and minimize heat loss due to fouling.

HP Integration Strategies: Engineering design tools are moving to the ‘cloud’

ARC Advisory Group: Slansky, Dick

According to a new market study on engineering design tools, new 3D design applications can play an integral part in determining the optimal design, creation and construction of HPI facilities.

HP Industry Perspectives: Middle East threatened by North American petrochemical exports

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: DuBose, Ben

North American petrochemical producers have had lofty margins in recent years, given ample ethane feedstocks derived from the regional shale boom.Those margins, in turn, are leading to plans for new c..

Petrofac, Daelim to help expand key Oman refinery

The refinery was originally constructed and commissioned in 2006 and ORPIC is now investing in improvements at the site to enhance the current production capacity. When work from Petrofac and Daelim is complete, it is anticipated that the revamped facility will boost current output by over 70%.

Honeywell taps Jacobs as project manager for new chemicals site in China

Jacobs is providing services such as basic and detailed design, permitting, project controls, quality, HSE management, procurement, and construction management services, with the option to provide commissioning as required. The plant should start up in the fourth quarter of 2014.