Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has completed the purchase of Graf-Wulff GmbH, a German company that designs, manufactures and installs circulating dry ash fluegas-scrubbing technology for all types of boilers…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, says that it has been selected by The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to provide technology to produce propylene at a Dow production site in Texas. Dow Texas…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp), in consortium with Brazilian UTC Engenharia S.A. and Construtora Norberto Odebrecht S.A., has been awarded a contract from Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for the construction of utility facilities to be installed in the…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract by IDEA Soda Ash and Calcium Chloride Company (ISACC) to provide engineering and project management services for the construction of a $300-million soda ash and calcium chloride production…
CNOOC (China National Oil and Off-shore Corp.) has awarded Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) a contract for converting coke oven gas with extra CO2 into substitute natural gas (SNG) and Liquifed natural gas (LNG). At the end of 2011…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has established a new business unit dedicated to natural gas processing solutions and hydrogen. The new Natural Gas and Hydrogen business unit will increase Honeywell UOP’s focus on developing technology, equipment and…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) and NexSteppe (Malibu, Calif.; www.nexsteppe.com) have entered into a collaboration to develop advanced feedstocks for biofuels, biopower and biobased products. The collaboration will focus on the development of new sweet sorghum and high biomass sorghum hybrids,…
Neste Oil Oyj (Uusimaa; www.nesteoil.com) has selected Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, both Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) as its main partner for a pilot plant designed to produce waste-based microbial oil at its Porvoo refinery. It will be the first pilot plant in…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is participating with $30 million through BASF Biorenewable Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG in the American technology firm Renmatix Inc. (King of Prussia, Pa.; www.renmatix.com). The BASF subsidiary led a $50 million financing round, joined…
Like the ammonia plants that feed them, urea plants are getting bigger. These large-scale plants are being built to not only meet the increasing demand for fertilizer — projected to grow steadily at 3.7%/yr — but also to take advantage…