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PetroChina top official fired after video scandal goes viral

China’s state-owned supermajor PetroChina is making headlines for the wrong reasons after its senior official was caught in a cheating scandal video that went viral, China Project reported. Hu Jiyong, president of PetroChina’s EPC unit Huanqiu Project Management, was videoed by a street photographer last Wednesday, interlocking fingers with a young woman, taking a romantic […]

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Saudi: ACWA Power signs $1.5 billion project deal in Kazakhstan

Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power has signed a roadmap agreement with the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan and Samruk-Kazyna, the country’s Investment Development Fund, for a major wind energy and battery storage project, according to a press statement from the company. The agreement paves the way for the construction of a 1GW project in Kazakhstan, marking […]

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Halliburton wins completions contract for carbon capture project

Halliburton, the US-based energy major, has been granted a contract to carry out well completions on the HyNet North West carbon capture and storage initiative in the United Kingdom. This entails supplying completions, liners, and monitoring products and services for the project situated in Liverpool Bay. To fulfill this contract, Halliburton will manufacture and deliver […]

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ADNOC announces milestone for landmark Fujairah project

ADNOC has announced a milestone for its unique CO2 to rock project, which will utilise a pilot technology that permanently mineralises CO2 within rock formations found in the Emirate of Fujairah. Solar panels for the project have been installed by Masdar at the site, which will provide the energy required to capture carbon dioxide from […]

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Oman awards hydrogen blocks to Kuwaiti company

Hydrogen Oman (Hydrom) has granted one of Oman’s initial hydrogen blocks to EnerTech Holding Company, a Kuwaiti state-owned company focused on clean energy investment and development. EnerTech is also a founding partner of the international consortium, Green Energy Oman (GEO). According to a press statement by EnerTech, the GEO consortium, which includes EnerTech, Oman’s integrated […]

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McDermott progressing construction work on Aramco’s $21 billion Marjan expansion

Houston-based firm McDermott is advancing construction of Aramco’s Marjan expansion project aiming to complete it by 2025, data by DMS Projects shows. In July 2019, McDermott announced the award of two engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contracts for the Marjan field expansion project. The first EPCI contract, valued at $3 billion, was for the Marjan […]

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L&T awards major contract for futuristic NEOM megaproject

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has awarded a contract to Grid Solutions, an integral part of the GE Vernova portfolio of energy businesses, to supply gas-insulated substations (GIS) for the world’s largest utility-scale hydrogen plant to be powered entirely by renewable energy. In December 2022, NEOM Green Hydrogen Co (NGHC) named Indian contractor L&T as the sub-EPC contractor for its […]