Amec Foster Wheeler announces today that it has been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) to upgrade its Oil Gathering Centre GC-24.
This project continues Amec Foster Wheeler’s work with KOC on major projects since 2004, which has recently included three new Gathering Centres and strategic pipeline projects in North Kuwait.
Roberto Penno, Amec Foster Wheeler’s Group President, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe said:
“Kuwait Oil Company is one of our key customers and this further strengthening of our working partnership follows our success in delivering projects for them and management of the original GC-24 Project which was completed six months ahead of schedule.”
KOC is planning to increase oil production by up to 1 million barrels of oil per day by 2020 and to maintain this for 10 years.
Critical to the expansion, this project will enhance the existing GC-24 facility, increasing capacity by 50,000 barrels of oil per day from the current level of 165,000 barrels of oil per day, as well as optimising existing facilities to cater for the expected high level of water in the mix of crude oil and gas.
Italy-based renewable energy firm TerniEnergia has won an EPC contract to build a 47MW solar farm in Egypt.
The order, on behalf of an undisclosed Italian utility, is worth roughly US$19.2 million.
The project is located in Benban roughly 900km from Cairo on a 150-hectare section of land. TerniEnergia will perform engineering, procurement and construction activities, with 250 workers on site during construction.
The plant will use solar panels from 3Sun, which is part of Enel Green Power. The modules were manufactured in Catania, Italy.
In January TerniEnergia formed a joint venture in Abu Dhabi with Khalid Al Hamed Group to operate in the Middle East.
Technip was awarded a contract by CTCI to provide basic engineering and proprietary equipment for a grassroots ethylene cracking furnace at the Saudi Kayan petrochemical complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
The furnace design will be based on Technip’s proprietary USC® furnace technology. Technip was awarded this project for its best proposal and because of its high-capacity, high availability, gas cracking applications.
Technip’s operating center in Milton Keynes, UK, will execute the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2017.
Stan Knez, President, Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology, commented: "As the largest ethylene licensor and contractor, Technip is pleased that our USC furnace technology was selected for this important ethylene expansion project. The technology has an outstanding track record with more than 60 installations for gas cracking in the last decade.”
As a world leader in gas monetization, refining and petrochemicals, Technip has a strong expertise in proprietary equipment, technologies and licensing.
CTCI Corporation is providing the engineering, procurement and construction of Saudi Kayan’s new cracking furnace. Founded in 1979, CTCI is the largest engineering, procurement and construction firm in Taiwan.
Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company is an affiliate of SABIC, a public company based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with 70% of the company shares owned by the Saudi Arabian government and 30% held by private investors.
Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary Technip Umbilicals Ltd.(1) has been awarded a contract by Statoil ASA to supply the umbilical(2) to the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 field offshore Norway. This field is located approximately 8 kilometers North West of the Oseberg field center at block 30/9-30/6 on the Norwegian continental shelf, at water depths of 100 meters.
The contract covers project management, engineering and manufacture of over 9 kilometers of static steel tube umbilical. The umbilical includes a large bore integrated service line and multiple power cables.
Technip Umbilicals’ facility in Newcastle, UK, will manufacture the project, which is scheduled to be completed during the first half of 2017.
Sarah Cridland, Managing Director of Technip Umbilicals, said: “As a company we have invested significantly in our Newcastle facility and it is encouraging to see the award of contracts, such as Oseberg, from this. This is an extremely important recognition to Technip Umbilicals from Statoil.”
Technip Umbilicals: a wholly-owned subsidiary of Technip comprising of Technip Umbilicals Ltd. in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Technip Umbilicals Inc. in Houston, USA, Angoflex in Lobito, Angola and Asiaflex Products in Johor, Malaysia.
Umbilical: an assembly of steel tubes and/or hydraulic hoses which can also include electrical cables or optic fibres used to control subsea structures from a platform or a vessel.
Skanska has, as a part of a joint venture, signed a contract with National Grid to design and construct a tunnel underneath the river Humber on the east coast of Northern England for the Humber Tunnel project. The contract value for Skanska is GBP 40M, about SEK 480M, which will be included in the order bookings for Skanska UK in the second quarter 2016.
The joint venture with the Austrian construction company PORR and A.Hak from the Netherlands brings together international expertise to deliver, in an innovative, sustainable and collaborative way, a five-kilometer tunnel. The tunnel will protect the pipeline for the long term, helping National Grid to provide a vital service to millions of people.
The River Humber pipeline is part of the national transmission system – connecting the import terminal at Easington, on the East Yorkshire coast, to the wider network and delivering gas to millions of customers throughout the UK.
Skanska UK reported revenues of about SEK 18 billion in 2015. It has around 5,500 employees. The company is active in building and civil construction, utilities and building services, as well as facilities management and commercial development.
French energy company Engie, formerly known as GDF Suez, will drill for hydrocarbons in the North Sea, offshore Norway, using Transocean’s semi-submersible rig.
The Norwegian oil industry offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), granted Engie a consent for drilling in production license 636 in the North Sea with Transocean Arctic drilling rig.
The exploration well will be the first to be drilled in this production license. It is to be drilled in a prospect named Cara, with the designation 36/7-4.
The well is located in the northern North Sea, west of Florø and six kilometers northeast of the Gjøa field. Water depth at the site is 348 meters.
Drilling is scheduled to begin in mid-June 2016 at the earliest and will last an estimated 66 days.
The Transocean Arctic is a semi-submersible drilling rig operated by Transocean, built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan in 1987, and substantially upgraded in 2004. The rig was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) by the PSA in July 2004.