Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions announced a collaboration with OLI Systems, a leader in water chemistry-based process simulation and electrolyte thermodynamics, to optimize operating performance in the refining and petrochemical industries through the use of OLI's innovative cloud platform that delivers…
Following an initial investment in August 2021, Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has now acquired the entirety of SimAnalytics. With the acquisition, Kemira strengthens its capability to support its customers’ business with data-driven predictive services and machine learning solutions. “Services are…
Ebook: Integrate your energy asset data The data supporting capital project lifecycles and operational assets contain intelligence that provides performance-enhancing insights. But how can you effectively utilize this data? Many industries have shown that adopting a Digital Lifecycle Excellence…
Abu Dhabi Chemicals Derivatives Co. RSC Ltd (TA’ZIZ) and PROMAN AG (Wollerau, Switzerland), one of the world’s leading producers of methanol, have signed a shareholders’ agreement to develop the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first world-scale methanol production facility at the…
OQ Chemicals GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany) has announced further plans to expand its production capacity for carboxylic acids. The company has invested in an optimization and debottlenecking project for precursors at its plants in Germany. Structural work has already…
Technip Energies (Paris) – as part of its long-term agreement with Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) – has been awarded a contract to upgrade sulfur recovery facilities at Aramco’s Riyadh Refinery. This contract covers the implementation of three new tail gas…
KAZAZOT, the leading company in the fertilizer industry in Kazakhstan, has selected Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) as the contractor to develop a new ammonium, urea, nitric acid and ammonium nitrate complex. With a total investment of approximately $1 billion, the…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.) will provide automation technologies, software and analytics for the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex in Qatar as part of a consortium with Viasat Energy Services, a division of global communications company. The $6 billion integrated polymers project,…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) are cooperating in the energy-intensive production of basic chemicals at their Lower Rhine sites in Germany and make them more climate friendly. LANXESS sources chlorine, caustic soda and hydrogen from the…
Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) and thyssenkrupp Uhde have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ma’aden in Saudi Arabia for developing a novel circular concept to improve the sustainability of Ma’aden’s phosphate operations. The aim is to design a…