Refinery Projects - Feb/Mar 05
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-- EUROPE --

Huntsman Corporation is to significantly increase its global capacity for the manufacture of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate
(MDI) by expanding manufacturing facilities at its plants in Geismar, Louisiana and Rozenburg, Netherlands.

The capacity of the Geismar plant will be expanded by 130 million pounds per year to 990 million pounds, while the capacity of
the Rozenburg plant will be expanded by 220 million pounds per year to 880 million pounds.

The expansions will be completed in increments beginning in the first quarter of 2005, with final completion expected by late 2006.

Weblinks:   Huntsman   

Fabricom GTI is to manufacture 30 modules – pre-assembled pipe racks – for the Ormen Lange gas onshore plant located on
the island Gossen in Midwest Norway.

The contract with an estimated value of 53 mln euro, involves about 650.000 man hours and will be executed by the Business Unit
Major Projects of Fabricom GTI at its Hoboken modules construction yard in Belgium. The pre-assembled pipe racks which weight
between 110 and 480 tons will be fabricated and assembled between March 2005 and January 2006 .

Weblinks:   Fabricom     Hydro

AMEC has been awarded a £53 million contract to design and deliver a new gas storage facility at Aldbrough near Hornsea,
East Yorkshire for Scottish and Southern Energy.

AMEC will undertake the design, engineering, procurement and installation of the Central Processing Area process plant,
including three 20-megawatt compressors, controls, instrumentation and supporting infrastructure to enable the plant to be
operated remotely from an existing facility approximately 10 miles away.

Nine storage caverns will be used to store gas at Aldbrough. The caverns will be created by directionally drilling from a Central
Processing Area down to the salt strata. Seawater is then pumped into the boreholes to dissolve the salt and form the caverns
– a process known as leaching. The process will take around four years to complete with the first cavern expected to be ready to
store gas by 2007. On-site operations will begin in May 2005 with first gas expected on stream by December 2006.

The site is located 2.5km south-east of Aldbrough and 1.5km inland from the coast. Once completed, the Aldbrough facility will be
able to provide enough gas in a day to supply around four million homes.

Weblinks:   AMEC    SSE

Brindisi LNG SpA has awarded the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract to a consortium led by
Tecnimont SpA, for the construction of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in the port of Brindisi, in the area
of Capo Bianco.

The winning consortium, a temporary association of companies (ATI), is led by Tecnimont and comprises Sofregaz S.A,
Grandi Lavori Fincosit SpA, Consorzio Cooperativa Costruttori, Vinci Construction Grands Projets S.A and
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.

The ATI have commenced the activities that will lead to the design and construction of the LNG terminal which will have a send
out capacity of 8 billion cubic meters of regasified LNG a year and will be operational in 2008.

Weblinks:   Sofregaz

Foster Wheeler Iberia, S.A. has been awarded a contract for the supply and construction of a new fluid catalytic cracker gasoline
selective hydrotreater unit (Axens license) at AB Mazeikiu Nafta's Mazeikiai Refinery in northwest Lithuania.

The new facility comprises two units: a 32,000 barrels per stream day (BPSD) sulfur hydrogenation unit and a 22,000 BPSD
hydrodesulfurization unit. This is a strategic project for the refinery, the only refinery in the Baltic States, and will enable it to meet
the European Union's Auto-Oils V specifications for the sulfur content of gasoline which come into force in 2009.

The project is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2006.

Weblinks:   Nafta   Foster Wheeler

-- AMERICA --

Sempra Energy has requested authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to construct and operate
its Liberty Gas Storage salt-cavern natural gas storage facility in Calcasieu Parish, La.

The facility, which will provide 17 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of working gas capacity for storage, is expected to be in service in the
second quarter of 2006. The project also will include surface facilities to allow for a maximum injection of 500 million cubic feet
per day and maximum withdrawals of 1 Bcf per day.

Information about the project can be found n the project's Web site at www.libertygasstorage.com

A Black & Veatch-led consortium comprised of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Vinci Construction Grands Projets of France and
Techint SA de CV of Mexico announced that it has been awarded the approximately $500 million engineer, procure, construct
(EPC) contract for Sempra LNG, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, at its Energia Costa Azul LNG receipt terminal located 14 miles
north of Ensenada, Mexico.

The large-scale LNG receipt terminal will encompass an LNG jetty, unloading facilities, LNG storage tanks and regasification
facilities. The terminal, which is the first to be located along the Pacific coast of the Americas, will be capable of receiving
7.6 million tons of LNG per year and processing one billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. The contract calls for construction
of two above-ground LNG tanks each having a storage capacity of 160,000 cubic meters.

LNG will be imported from LNG loading terminals in Sakhalin, Russia, and Tangguh, Indonesia. When completed in 2008, the
terminal will supply gas for power generation and household use throughout Baja California.

Black & Veatch and Techint SA de CV will undertake terminal design and construction work, including LNG regasification and
LNG unloading facilities. MHI and Vinci Construction Grands Projets will be responsible for construction of the LNG storage tanks.

Weblinks   Black & Veatch    MHI      Vinci     Techint

Suncor Energy is to apply to the Alberta regulators for permission to construct and operate a third oil sands upgrader, designed
to increase the production capacity of its oil sands facility to more than half a million barrels of oil per day.

Plans call for the new upgrader to be constructed approximately half a kilometre southwest from Suncor's existing upgrader
facilities. The new facility would include cokers, hydrotreaters, utilities support and a 50-kilometre hot bitumen pipeline to connect
the upgrader with Suncor's in-situ operations. A decision by regulators is expected to take approximately two years, and
construction is not expected to begin until 2007.

Weblinks   Suncor

Jacobs Engineering Group is providing front-end engineering, design, and procurement services for BP Cherry Point Refinery's
Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) project in Blaine, Washington.

BP plans to invest over $75 million on new ULSD facilities at their Cherry Point Refinery with mechanical completion projected for
mid-2006.

Weblinks:   Jacobs  

Fluor Corporation has been selected to provide engineering and procurement services in support of ConocoPhillips' clean fuels
programs at its Wood River refinery in Roxana, Ill.

The project includes detailed engineering on an ultra low sulfur diesel hydrotreater. Engineering is under way in Fluor's offices
in Houston, Texas. Fluor is already providing engineering, procurement and construction management services in support of
ConocoPhillips' clean fuel efforts at refineries in Texas and Montana and engineering and procurement services in Oklahoma.

Fluor is also to provide engineering and procurement services for an ultra low sulfur diesel unit, at Newell, W. Va refinery
of Ergon-West Virginia. The project which is expected to be completed by the spring of 2006 is part of Ergon's clean fuels
program .

Weblinks:   Fluor    

Skanska is to build a delayed coking unit at the Petrobras Reduc oil refinery in Brazil.

Petrobras Reduc is one of Brazil's largest oil refineries, and is located at Duque de Caxias, close to Rio de Janeiro. The USD
153 million project, which is to be started immediately, is scheduled for completion within 700 days, with start-up of the plant
during 2007.

Weblinks:   Skanska

Technip is to build a new hydrotreating unit at the Hovensa refinery in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, one of the world's largest refineries.

The 50,000 barrels per stream day low sulfur FCC (Fluid Catalytic Cracker) gasoline hydrotreater, based on ExxonMobil Research
and Engineering Company's SCANfining(TM) process technology will produce low-sulfur gasoline in compliance with the new
gasoline regulation in the USA.

Technip's engineering center in Rome (Italy) will carry out the contract, which covers the front-end and detail engineering,
procurement and supply of equipment and materials, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning and assistance to
start-up. The project is slated to be completed in November 2006.

Hovensa is a joint Venture owned in equal parts by subsidiaries of PDVSA (the State-owned Venezuelan oil company) and
Amerada Hess, a leading US oil company.

Weblinks:   Technip

Praxair is build, own and operate a new steam-methane reformer with a capacity of 100 million standard cubic feet of hydrogen
per day (119,000 cubic meters per hour).

The plant which is expected to to be complete by the third quarter of 2006, will supply hydrogen to Valero's Houston and Texas City,
Texas, refineries for the production of ultra-low-sulfur motor fuels.

Praxair is also to build, own and operate two air separation plants to supply nitrogen for enhanced oil recovery operations in
Samaria and adjacent oilfields in the state of Tabasco in southeastern Mexico, for Pemex.

Weblinks:   Praxair

-- MIDDLE AND FAR EAST --

Oman Oil Company and Mubadala Development Company, an Abu Dhabi-based company are to jointly develop a planned
methanol project in the Port of Salalah Free Zone.

Subject to final sanction, the project will entail the development, construction and operation of a 3,000 metric ton per day methanol
plant, using natural gas, supplied by Ministry of Oil and Gas through Oman Gas Company, as feedstock.

Completion of the project is expected in late 2008.

.Weblinks:   Oman Oil      Mubadala

Shaw Nass Middle East Ltd., located in Bahrain, has been awarded a pipe fabrication contract to supply all industrial pipe
requirements for Dolphin Energy Ltd.'s new gas processing plant in Qatar. Shaw was awarded the contract for fabrication of
approximately 37,000 metric tons (41,000 short tons) of pipe by Japan Gas Corporation (JGC), the construction contractor for
the facility. Scheduled to be completed in 2006, the new plant will be one of the largest gas processing facilities with an initial
capacity to process 2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.

The Dolphin Energy plant is being constructed in Ras Laffan, Qatar by Dolphin Energy Ltd., a consortium of the Abu Dhabi
Government, TOTAL France, and Occidental Petroleum Corporations USA (NYSE:OXY). The plant will receive wet gas from
Dolphin's facilities in Qatar's offshore North Field, and will remove hydrocarbon liquids (including condensate and NGL products)
for processing, marketing and sale. The resulting dry gas will be compressed for transportation through Dolphin's export pipeline
to the UAE

.Weblinks:   Shaw        Dolphin Energy

Snamprogetti, Eni's engineering and main contracting company, has been awarded a contract for the implementation of a natural
gas liquids (NGL)1 fractionation plant, for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), in the industrial complex of Ruwais, in
Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. .

The plant consists of a single line (train) with a processing capacity of 24,400 tons/day of NGL. Processed liquids come from
onshore fields in the Habshan and Asab areas.

Snamprogetti will also build the liquid storage tanks and a new jetty for product export. Propane, Butane, and Pentane are destined
for the foreign market, while ethane will be sent to the new petrochemical complex planned in Ruwais. Work will be completed in
38 months.

Weblinks:  ENI 

BP is to go ahead with the $5bn (£2.6bn) Tangguh LNG Project in Indonesia.  The Tangguh project represents the largest capital
development project currently underway in Indonesia.

A consortium of JGC Corporation, PT Brown & Root Indonesia, and PT PERTAFENIKKI Engineering (PFN) of Indonesia has been
awarded the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract for the construction of a two-train LNG processing
plant and associated support facilities. Each train will have a capacity of 3.8 million tonnes per annum (MTPA).

Saipem will fabricate and install two platforms and two subsea pipelines. The two 20 kilometres pipelines will connect the platforms
to the LNG shore facilities. Installation and laying activities are scheduled to be completed in mid 2007.

The project is expected to begin producing LNG in 2008, with initial product shipments to China, S. Korea, and the North American
west coast, etc.

Further information on the project can be found on the BP Website

Aker Kvaerner Netherlands BV has signed a contract with Univation Technologies for the basic engineering of a new, world-scale
polyethylene plant at the Quanguang Petrochemical Complex in Quangzhou, Fujian province, China, some 300 km north east of
Hong Kong.

The plant consists of two world-scale lines each with a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per annum (tpa). The basic engineering will be
executed from Aker Kvaerner's Zoetermeer office in the Netherlands, with support of Aker Kvaerner's China organisation. During
detailed engineering, Aker Kvaerner will provide support services from both its Zoetermeer and China offices. Start-up is
scheduled in 2008.

The polyethylene plant is part of a larger project that includes expansion of Fujian's refinery from 80,000 bbl/day to 240,000 bbl/day,
a new 800,000 tpa cracker, a 400,000 tpa polypropylene plant and an aromatics plant.

Weblinks:   AkerKvaerner   

-- AUSTRALIA --

Foster Wheeler's Australian subsidiary Foster Wheeler (WA) Pty Ltd., in a joint venture with WorleyParsons Services Pty Ltd., has
received a letter of intent from Woodside Energy Ltd. for the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm)
contract for the proposed LNG Phase V project to be built at Karratha (approximately 1100 km north of Perth), Western Australia.
Signature of the contract is subject to approval of the project by the North West Shelf Venture participants. Approval is expected
during the first half of 2005.

This Phase V expansion project, which has an investment cost of around US$1.58 billion, comprises the addition of a fifth train
of LNG production, with a capacity of 4.2 million tonnes a year of LNG, to the existing LNG complex at Karratha. The complex
originally started up in 1989. The Foster Wheeler/WorleyParsons joint venture will be responsible for engineering the new plant,
procurement and management of equipment supply, fabrication and construction. In addition to train 5, the contract calls for the
provision of an additional fractionation unit, acid gas recovery unit, boil-off gas compressor, two new gas turbine power generation
units, a second loading berth and a new fuel gas system compressor. The facility is expected to start up in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Weblinks:      Foster Wheeler      WorleyParsons      Woodside Energy

Origin Energy Resources (Kupe) Limited as operator of the Kupe Gas Project, plans to build a new onshore production station to
process gas from the proposed offshore Kupe development, rather than toll the gas through existing onshore facilities.

The Kupe Joint Venture proposes to extract natural gas, LPG and light oil from the Kupe field situated approximately 30km offshore
south of New Zealand’s Taranaki Peninsula. The proposed site for the new onshore production station is west of Hawera at the
southern end of Inaha Road.

The Kupe Joint Venture’s application for resource consents will be considered by the South Taranaki District Council at a hearing
on April 4 2005 and by the Taranaki Regional Council in mid April 2005.

Construction of a new production station is expected to take approximately two years, with first gas, oil and LPG deliveries in the
second half of 2007.

Weblinks:   Origin 

BOC has announced plans to build a new liquid helium plant in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The new facility will be the
first helium plant in Australia.

Under a long-term contract with Darwin LNG, BOC will extract the helium from the vent stream of the Darwin liquefied natural gas
plant. The helium will be purified, liquefied and filled into specialized ISO containers for shipment to market.

Pending the required government and regulatory approvals, construction of BOC's helium plant, located at Wickham Point and
adjacent to Darwin LNG's facility, will begin in mid-2006. When the helium plant reaches full production, it will have capacity of
150 million cubic feet per year and will supply between 2 and 3 per cent of the world's helium demand.

Helium is used in a variety of medical and industrial applications, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), laser welding,
particle accelerators, leak detection and the manufacture of semiconductors, LCD's and fiber optic cable.

Weblinks:   BOC 

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