Construction & Installation

Uganda government pushes oil refinery project to 2023

March 05, 2019 | Construction & Installation, Refining & Processing, Uganda

Kampala, Uganda |  — The consortium of Italian and American investors contracted to design, finance, construct and operate Uganda’s proposed 60,000 barrels per day oil refinery have completed and submitted the facility’s initial designs to the Ugandan government, with Energy Minister Irene Muloni saying they are “happy” with the latest configuration. A government delegation led by Ms Muloni and the Uganda Refinery Holdings Company (UHRC) general manager Michael Mugerwa was in Milan, Italy last week for discussions with the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium (AGRC) to …

Tanzania sees $3.5bn Uganda gas pipeline kicking off in 2021

September 27, 2018 | Construction & Installation, Pipelines, Tanzania, Uganda

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania | –  The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation is confident a natural-gas pipeline to Uganda will start in 2021, according to acting Managing Director of the corporation,  Kapuulya Musomba. At least 29 companies have shown interest in conducting a feasibility study and constructing the pipeline that will pump gas to western Uganda to power iron and steel factories, Musomba said in an interview in Tanzania’s commercial hub, Dar es Salaam. He didn’t provide any names. “We expect the feasibility study to be …

China interested in joining TAPI pipeline project – Pakistan official

August 08, 2018 | Construction & Installation, Middle East, Pipelines

Islamabad, Pakistan | – China is exploring building a spur from Pakistan’s territory once the multi-country TAPI natural gas pipeline project begins operating, a Pakistani official said, with the financial close of the project’s first phase expected next month. Originating at the giant Galkynysh gas field in Turkmenistan, the $9.6 billion TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India) pipeline involves the four countries own energy companies, and would carry 33 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas a year. Turkmenistan is building the TAPI pipeline to diversify …

Ugandan, Tanzanian Presidents launch start of work on 1,445km Hoima-Tanga oil pipeline

November 10, 2017 | Construction & Installation, Pipelines, Tanzania, Uganda

Mutukula, Uganda | –  President Museveni and his Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli on Thursday laid the second foundation stone at one of the proposed corridors for the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a gesture for political will, and to charm international lenders expected to pool 70 per cent of the project capital expenditure. The 1,445-kilometre pipeline, planned to run from Hoima District in mid-western Uganda to Tanzania’s southern Tanga Port on the Indian Ocean coast, was earlier projected to cost at least $3.55b …

TechnipFMC secures Ghana onshore facilities construction work

March 21, 2017 | Construction & Installation, Engineering, Ghana

Paris, France |  –  TechnipFMC, a global leader in oil and gas projects, technologies, systems and services has been selected as project manager for construction work on the onshore receiving facilities associated with Ghana’s Offshore Cape Three points project. In a statement on its website on Tuesday, the engineering major said it would be carrying out supply, construction and commissioning works for Eni Ghana E&P, a joint venture vehicle comprising Eni, Vitol Upstream Ghana and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. The facilities, which will be located in …

Nigeria’s Aveon Offshore wins offloading buoy contract from NOV

November 11, 2014 | Construction & Installation, Engineering, Nigeria

Lagos, Nigeria  | – Aveon Offshore Limited, a Nigerian engineering and fabrication company, has been awarded a contract by National Oilwell Varco Nigeria for the fabrication of an offloading buoy as part of the package for the Egina OLT contract for Total Upstream Nigeria. The contract, which was awarded in March 2014, for the fabrication of a 900 ton offloading buoy includes the fabrication of the 700 ton buoy hull, installation and integration of a 200 ton turret and the launching and pre-commissioning of the completed …

Uganda plans 250-kilometre oil pipeline

August 19, 2014 | Africa, Construction & Installation, Pipelines

Kampala, Uganda | – Uganda is planning to build a 250-kilometre pipeline to transport refined petroleum products from the Lake Albertine Rift basin to the capital Kampala, as the East African nation draws closer to commercializing its vast oil fields. The country is seeking a strategic private investment partner to co-fund the project, estimated by the government to cost at least $220 million, and to take a stake of around 60%. The government will meet its share of the costs by drawing on the finance …

Shell eyes completion of world’s largest FLNG

August 15, 2014 | Australia, Construction & Installation, LNG & LPG

Project slated to tap offshore Australian gas. Perth, Australia | – Royal Dutch Shell said Friday the largest piece of the turret for Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility, the largest floating liquefied natural gas facility in the world is on the way to a South Korean shipyard. Shell said the turret module, part of the mooring system, is on its way from Dubai to a shipyard in South Korea, where the entire FLNG is set for construction. The final product will eventually …