Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced that Reliance Industries Ltd.(Reliance), has signed an agreement to join a new world-scale chlor-alkali, ethylene dichloride and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production facility at TA’ZIZ in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi. The agreement capitalizes on growing…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) will further expand its long-term position in South and Central America after reaching an agreement to acquire Colombia-based paints and coatings company Grupo Orbis. Completion is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected by end of…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Raízen Argentina for modernizing the Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit at its Buenos Aires Refinery. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a basic engineering package…
Air Liquide (Paris) will invest around €70 million to build a state-of-the-art gases plant in Wuhan, Central China, to supply a major memory chipmaker. Air Liquide has been producing ultra-pure industrial gases for this leading Chinese high-tech company for more…
Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland) announced new investments in GMP laboratories and mid-scale manufacturing assets at its API manufacturing center in Nansha, China. The investments, totaling over CHF 20 million (around $22 million), will allow Lonza to provide a smoother transition…
LFG components Wet LFG during peak production Flaring/direct-use during peak LFG production Pipeline-grade specifications CH4 ~55 vol% (typical) ~55 vol% (typical) 96 vol% min. CO2 ~45 vol% (typical) ~45 vol% (typical) 3 vol% max. Pressure 40-60 inWC vacuum to the…
Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) has been awarded by Gazprom Neft a $240 million contract for the development of a modern unit for treating a residual oil at Moscow Refinery. The scope of works which will be implemented during…
Air Liquide (Paris) has finalized the acquisition from Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) of 16 Air Separation Units (ASU) located in Secunda, South Africa. Air Liquide will operate this site - the biggest oxygen production site in the world -…
Johnson Matthey (JM; London) has teamed up with CPI, an independent technology innovation center and Thomas Swan, one of the U.K.’s leading independent chemical manufacturers, to explore how to best optimize battery technology. The ICE-Batt project receives funding support from…
Novozymes A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark) has been included as part of ARC´s EU application to set up a carbon capture facility at the Amager Resource Center (ARC) in Copenhagen. Novozymes’ biosolution for enzymatic carbon capture is to be tested as a…