Projects

Tendering for contracts and winning engineering business

Before a chemical plant, oil platform or manufacturing facility even gets on the drawing board, engineering contractors have to tender for the contract and win the business... find out what it takes.

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The six typical phases of an engineering design and construction project

The stages in executing an engineering project from concept through to construction and operation can vary in duration and scope. However, all major projects can be viewed as passing through six universal stages of development.

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Getting the job done: LNG plant outback in Western Australia

Extreme locations such as the Australian desert call for innovative design and a high level of organisation. Graduate process engineer, Gemma Bowers describes her involvement in expanding a liquid natural gas plant.

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Getting the job done: increasing the capacity of a methanol plant in Trinidad

Senior process engineer, Simon Early explains the ins and outs of going beyond the limits of what was thought possible to increase the capacity of an existing methanol plant.

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Getting the job done: beating corrosion to deliver a North Sea oil platform

As a graduate process engineer, Ben Hogben was able to experience working on the Buzzard oil development starting with the front-end engineering design and taking the job through to full scale construction.

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Getting the job done: 20 million man hours later... a petrochemicals plant in China

Thousands of people coming from a range of continents can contribute to a large project's success. Principal process engineer, Andy Clarridge explains how this worked for a chinese petrochemical plant.

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