Petrochemicals

Qatar International Petroleum Marketing Company Ltd (Tasweeq) sold its first cargo of GTL Naphtha, from the worlds largest gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant, Pearl GTL, located in Qatar.

Laffan Refinery Company Limited has awarded a lump sum Front End Engineering Design (FEED) Contract for the Refinerys Phase 2 expansion to Technip.

Fluor Corporation announced that the company has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by SAPCo, a joint venture company being formulated between Saudi Acrylic Acid Company and Evonik Industries, for its Super Absorbent Polymer Project (SAP) in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries (Orpic) has selected UOP/Foster Wheeler technology to help process heavy oil and expand fuel and petrochemicals production at a refinery in Sohar.