Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.com) has received a contract from Pemex, a Mexican state-owned petroleum company, for the Pemex Salamanca ULSD Project. The project will be executed in two phases. Phase I will include detail engineering and procurement…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Fertial SpA to provide licensing and basic engineering design services to revamp Fertial’s Annaba and Arzew ammonia plants in Algeria. Under the terms of the contracts, KBR will supply Fertial…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) reached an agreement to acquire MTG, Ltd. (Houston; www.mgtl.com). MTG is a management-consulting firm in the oil and gas, petrochemicals and chemicals industries with operations in North America, the U.K. and Australia. Completion of…
Effective April 1st, 2014, the TER Plastics Polymer Group (Herne, Germany; www.terhell.de) took over the majority of the Polish Polimarky Performance Polymers in Rogoznica. The new TER Plastics subsidiary was subsequently renamed into Terez Performance Polymers. High performance compounds on…
PRPC Refinery and Cracker Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary under the Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) group, Malaysia’s national energy company has awarded the consortium of CTCI Corp. (Taiwan; www.ctci.com.ty), Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com) and three Malaysian companies — CCJV P1…
The final step in constructing a single organization to lead process automation communications and integration technologies was completed when the members of both the HART Communication Foundation (www.hartcomm.org) and Fieldbus Foundation (both Austin, Tex.; www.fieldbus.org) approved the merger proposed by…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has announced an expansion of its specialty silica capacities in Ako, Japan through a holding in DSL Japan Co. (DSL). Evonik holds 51% of shares in DSL, a joint venture with the Japanese Shionogi…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has signed an agreement to buy the Ryton PPS (polyphenylene sulphide) business from U.S.-based petrochemical company Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. for $220 million, expanding its offering of high-performance polymers and entering a solid growth market.…
Following its recent acquisition of the biotechnology company Virdia, Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.; www.virdia.com), Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.storaenso.com) is investing €32 million ($43 million) in a demonstration and market development plant to be built at Raceland, Louisiana. The…
In collaboration with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com), Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has been selected for the design of a new ammonia plant for a major fertilizer project in Turkmenistan. The project has been awarded…