Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.com) has announced that it has received a contract for the $3.8 billion Mina Abdullah I refinery of the Clean Fuels Project (CFP) from Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). The Mina Abdullah…
Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC; Jonesboro, Ark.; www.camfilapc.com) announces that its parent, Camfil (Stockholm, Sweden) has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Handte Umwelttechnik GmbH in Germany and Handte's operations in Switzerland, the Czech Republic and China. The acquisition,…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) is further strengthening its position in Germany by signing a major long-term supply contract with ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG in the Rhine-Ruhr area, one of the largest and leading industrial basins in Europe. Deliveries under…
Axiall Corp. (Atlanta, Ga.; www.axiall.com) and Lotte Chemical (Seoul, South Korea; www.lottechem.com) have announced that they have signed an agreement to pursue a 50/50 joint venture (JV) arrangement for the design, construction and operation of a proposed 1 million metric…
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com), has announced that it has signed an agreement to divest its Water Treatment business in Africa to AECI (www.aeci.co.za), of South Africa. The total sale amounts to CHF 34 million ($38 million) in cash at…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has recently signed an engineering and procurement contract for two hydrogen plants in Nizhnekamsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The contract was awarded by PSC TAIF-NK, a leader in the oil-refining industry in Tatarstan. The…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has announced that it has acquired Eagleton Engineering, LLC, headquartered in Houston. Eagleton specializes in pipeline engineering, primarily providing professional services and resources to the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. The firm’s services…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com), in consortium with Sinopec Engineering Group (SEG), has signed a contract with Ma’aden (www.maaden.com.sa) in Saudi Arabia to provide engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and start-up services for a three-line 15,150-metric-ton-per-day (m.t./d) sulphuric acid plant.…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has signed a longterm contract with Nynas AB, who specializes in naphthenic specialty oils (NSP) and bitumen, for the onsite supply of hydrogen at Nynas’ refinery in Hamburg, Germany. To this end, the Linde…
Mitsui Chemicals (Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) announced that the company is constructing the world's first large-scale plant for xylylene diisocyanate (XDI) within its Omuta Works facility (Kyushu, Japan). This new development is one of several measures the company has undertaken in recent…