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re-frack operation. We are pleased to have will provide a license, basic engineering use existing infrastructure to store CO2 in
secured the equipment and services for the and proprietary equipment to CPC for its the depleted Bream field off the coast of
important C-77H re-frack operation given the proprietary ROSE technology. KBR will Gippsland, Victoria. The company is in active
worldwide shortage of fracking services. The also supply the engineering package for the discussions with local industries which may
amended gas sales agreement is consistent upstream VDU. be interested in accessing the SEA CCS hub to
with the recent government of India revised ROSE technology is a cost-effective reduce emissions from their operations.
domestic gas price announcement.” residue upgrading process that allows refiners The project is designed to capture up to
OILEX, April 14, 2022 to produce higher grade, cleaner products 2mn metric tons of CO2 per year. If technical
while reducing the facility’s carbon footprint. and business feasibility is confirmed, the SEA
This industry leading technology delivers CCS hub could be operational by 2025.
EAST ASIA 50% energy savings over conventional SDA “Collaboration with other industries is
technologies. an important step to unlock future carbon
TMK Energy discovers important project that enables clean fuels capture and storage opportunities for
“We are pleased to work with CPC on this
Australia, with the potential for large-scale
gassy coal in Mongolia production with KBR’s energy-efficient and reductions in the highest emitting industrial
sustainable ROSE process,” said Doug Kelly,
sectors,” said Joe Blommaert, president of
Sydney-listed TMK Energy has discovered KBR President, Technology. “KBR’s design ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions. “Sound
44 metres of gassy coal in the upper coalbed features an innovative integration solution government policies will accelerate the
in the first well of its Snow Leopard – 1 between the VDU and ROSE unit, which deployment of key technologies required
programme, in the Nariin Sukhait area of significantly reduces the project’s carbon to support society’s ambition for a net-zero
Mongolia’s Gurvantes XXXV CBM project, footprint. future.”
Natural Gas World has reported. KBR is a global leader in residue upgrading EXXONMOBIL, April 14, 2022
Preliminary results are said to show that technologies with the largest installed base
the coalbed has a significant gas concentration and has been involved in the licensing, design, EnerMech secures five-
and a high gas saturation. engineering, and/or construction of 70 ROSE
Talon Energy, TMK’s joint venture partner, units worldwide with a combined licensed year inspection and cranes
is funding a drilling campaign via a $4.65mn capacity of nearly 1.6 million BPSD. This list
two-stage farm-out arrangement signed includes operators that have installed multiple maintenance contract with
in February of last year. The current four- ROSE units.
well drilling and testing program has been KBR, April 13, 2022 Inpex
awarded $1.5mn in initial funding.
The project is located approximately 20 km EnerMech has been awarded a five-year
from the Chinese-Mongolian border, as well OCEANIA onshore and offshore inspection services,
as near the northern China gas transmission lifting equipment and crane maintenance
and distribution network. ExxonMobil begins design contract by Inpex Operations Australia to
support Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG.
studies for South East Ichthys LNG is ranked amongst the
KBR’s market-leading ROSE Australia carbon capture most significant energy developments in
the world. The Ichthys Field is located about
technology selected by CPC hub in Gippsland 220 kilometres offshore Western Australia
and 820 km southwest of Darwin covering
Corporation ExxonMobil said today it is undertaking early an area of around 800 square km in water
averaging depths of around 250 metres. Gas
KBR announced today that it has been front-end engineering design studies (pre- and condensate from the Ichthys field are
awarded a contract for its ROSE® supercritical FEED) to determine the potential for carbon exported to onshore facilities for processing
Solvent De-Asphalting (SDA) technology capture and storage to reduce greenhouse near Darwin via an 890-km pipeline.
and Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU) from gas emissions from multiple industries in the Starting in May, EnerMech will project
Taiwan’s state-owned oil company, CPC Gippsland Basin. manage and deliver campaigns consisting of
Corporation. The South East Australia carbon capture the supply of lifting and rigging equipment,
Under the terms of the contract, KBR and storage (SEA CCS) hub would initially testing, certification and the provision of

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