KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by China National Coal Group Corp. to provide ammonia technology, process design package and technical services for two 1,660 metric tons per day ammonia synloop units at China Coal Erdos Energy and Chemical…
Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (www.shell.com/globalsolutions) has signed an agreement with the South Refineries Company of Iraq, for the provision of technology licenses to a refinery in Basrah, Southern Iraq. Shell Global Solutions will provide a license for a sulfur…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that it has been selected by Zhejiang Julong Petrochemical Co. (ZJLPC) to provide key technology for a new unit to produce propylene at its facility in Pinghu City, Zhejiang Province,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Purac (www.purac.com), a subsidiary of CSM N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.csmglobal.com), today announce the start of negotiations to form a joint venture (JV) for the production of bio-based succinic acid. The companies have been…
Plant Watch Outotec to deliver the world’s largest iron-ore pelletizing plant in Brazil June 30, 2011— Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed to deliver an iron-ore pelletizing plant to Samarco Mineração S.A. The new plant will be installed at…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will consolidate the production of polyacrylamide (PAM) beads into its Bradford, U.K. facility, where the company operates a backward-integrated production plant with worldwide supply capability. Significant investment will be made to increase and upgrade the…
The technology company The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has been commissioned to build and operate two large air-separation units (ASUs) to supply gases on site to the Chinese company Yantai Wanhua in Shandong (East China). The contract for the…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.de/energy) has received an order from China to deliver eight coal gasifiers. The units, with a thermal rating of 500 megawatts each, are for a coal gasification plant in Yili City in Xinjiang province. The plant…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its commitment to serve the growing Chinese market with premium products by making a number of local investments totaling more than €40 million. “China remains one of the fastest growing markets in Asia…
Solvay S.A. announced today that it has the intention to create a 50/50 joint venture with Sadara Chemical Co. (itself a planned joint venture of Saudi Arabian Oil Co. and The Dow Chemical Co.) for the construction and operation of…