Projects

Many projects nowadays are capital intensive, highly complex, with many moving parts. This means there is significant potential for inherent risks that, if left unmonitored, can escalate into issues that will create major setbacks to a project’s progress, safety, and erode its budget.

U.S.-based exploration firm Uranium Energy has completed their 49-hole drilling and sampling campaign at its Alto Parana titanium oxide project, located in eastern Paraguay.

ABB, a digital technology leader with worldwide locations including North America, has been chosen to complete an automation and electrical package for the tandem cold rolling mill of one of Europe’s top steel producers.The delivery will provide an integrated, turnkey solution for the site that will be easier to operate and manage from initial installation, and over the lifetime of the mill.

The British Columbia (B.C.) Oil and Gas Commission has approved a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project located just outside of Squamish, B.C.

The government of Mozambique has granted ExxonMobil Corp., and its Mozambique Rovuma Venture SPA (MRV) partners, approval for the joint venture’s development plan for Rovuma LNG.

KBR, Inc. has been contracted to provide detailed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to ExxonMobil Corp.

In his article, ‘Material selection for offshore piping systems: cost aspects (Part one of two)’, John Ole Gjerp, senior principal engineer of Materials Technology at Aker Solutions, talks about how the selection of materials for piping systems is performed in the early stages of a project, even before details about process parameters, dimensions, and layout, are known.

U.S.-based company, Chet Morrison Contractors, was awarded the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract from Trinidad and Tobago’s newest upstream operator, DeNovo Energy Limited (DeNovo).

Mexico’s oil regulator National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) has approved the drilling plans for five offshore projects, for a total investment commitment of $380 million.

Weber Metals Inc., a division of Germany-based Otto Fuch KG, has unveiled a new, $180 million, 60,000-ton press at its facility in Paramount, California.