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Technip awarded important offshore contract for the Ichthys LNG Project in Australia
Technip has been awarded by INPEX CORPORATION an important offshore commissioning contract, worth approximately €210 million, for the Ichthys LNG Project located in the Browse Basin, Western Australia.

Production Goes on Stream from Phase-III Project
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited. With the commissioning of Crude and Vacuum Distillation Unit-III(CDU/VDU-III) on March 29, 2012, production goes on stream from Phase-III Refinery Expansion-cum-Upgradation Project of MRPL. Thus, the name plate capacity of MRPL Refinery goes up to 15 MMTPA from 11.82 MMTPA.

Fluor Named Project Management Consultant for New Refinery in Turkey
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that SOCAR & TURCAS Rafineri A.S. (STRAS), the joint venture of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and TURCAS Petrol A.S. (ISE:TRCAS), awarded the firm a project management consultant (PMC) contract for a new refinery to be built in Aliaga, Turkey. The new planned refinery will be integrated at the Petkim petrochemicals site on the Aegean coast. As PMC for the SOCAR & TURCAS Aegean Refinery (STAR) project, Fluor will assist STRAS in selecting and managing the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor(s) and provide overall project and construction management. Fluor has begun the work and will book the undisclosed contract value in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Macquarie Energy and Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. to Jointly Develop U.S. LNG Export Project
Macquarie Energy, the North American energy marketing and trading arm of Macquarie Group (Macquarie) (ASX: MQG), and Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. (Freeport LNG) today announced an agreement to jointly develop and market liquefaction capacity at Freeport LNG’s existing LNG import terminal near Freeport, Texas. The proposed liquefaction facility will be capable of liquefying up to 1.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural gas and will create a world-class bi-directional import/export LNG terminal.

Essar Projects bags Rs. 1400 crore contract from Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
Essar Projects (I) Ltd. (EPIL), India’s leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) , company, today said that it has achieved a new landmark in the EPC business space by bagging a contract valued at Rs. 1,400 Crore from Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL). EPIL emerged as the winner against stiff international competition. With this contract, the current order book size of Essar Project is in excess of USD 5.5 billion.