Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received an award from the Jubail Chemical Industrial Co. to provide technical and project management services for its existing epichlorohydrin plant expansion and a new epichlorohydrin plant at the Jubail, Saudi Arabia…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Imperial Oil Resources for engineering, procurement and construction work on the Kearl oil-sands project in Alberta, Canada. The value of CB&I's work scope is in excess of $900 million,…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has decided to expand its production facilities for hyperpure polysilicon at its Burghausen and Nünchritz sites in Germany. By taking debottlenecking measures within its integrated production network, it will increase annual quantities at each…
Bayer MaterialScience AG (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) plans to invest roughly €100 million in the expansion of the high-tech production plant for MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) at the Bayer Brunsbüttel Industrial Park in Germany. The project is part of the phased…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Omaha, Neb.; www.berkshirehathaway.com) and The Lubrizol Corporation (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) have announced a definitive agreement for Berkshire Hathaway to acquire 100% of outstanding Lubrizol shares for $135 per share in an all-cash transaction. The transaction, which was…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Inner Mongolia Connell Chemical Industry Co. (Connell) to provide licensing, basic engineering and related training and field services for its grassroots aniline plant in TongLiao, Inner Mongolia Province, China. The…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) intends to sell up to around 19.7 million shares of fertilizer company K+S AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.k-plus-s.com). BASF said that the shares would be “placed with institutional investors in an accelerated bookbuilding transaction via Bank…
Solazyme, Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.solazyme.com), a leading renewable-oils and bioproducts company, announced today the execution of both a joint development agreement (JDA) and a letter of intent (LOI) with The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to advance the…
Uhde Services GmbH (Haltern, Germany; www.uhde.eu) has signed a framework agreement with RWE Power (Cologne, Germany; www.rwe.com) for use of the fluidized-bed lignite drying technology with internal waste heat utilization. Uhde Services will thus join Linde KCA Dresden (Linde Group;…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) has been awarded the contract to equip the biggest sugar refinery operating in North America. The Siemens Industry Automation Division will be supplying electrical and control technology to the producing plant, which is currently under…