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Foster Wheeler awarded FEED contract from Khurais in Saudi Arabia  

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that subsidiaries of its Global Engineering and Construction Group have been awarded contracts for the front-end engineering design (FEED) for Saudi Aramco’s Khurais Arabian Light Crude Increment Program in Saudi Arabia. The Foster…

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Teijin establishes new Thai subsidiary  

Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.com) has established Teijin Corporation (Thailand) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary that will produce and sell newly developed meta-aramid fiber starting in July 2015. Production will be handled at a new facility to be constructed on…

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Neste Jacobs signs MoU with Quangang Petroleum and Chemical Industry Park in China  

Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) and Quangang Petroleum and Chemical Industry Park Management have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in the fields of technology introduction, energy efficiency, process optimization and consultancy services in Quangang, located in Fujian…

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Praxair starts up ASU in Brazil  

White Martins, the Brazil-based subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), has started up a new 800-ton/d air-separation unit (ASU) in the state of Minas Gerais, located in southeastern Brazil. Under a long-term contract, Praxair’s new plant will supply industrial…

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CB&I awarded technology contract from GS Caltex  

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by GS Caltex Corporation for the license, basic engineering and catalyst supply for a new para-xylene unit to be built in Yeosu, Korea. The unit will use the BP para-xylene…

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Gazprom Neft, UOP and EMRE finalize technology licensing agreement  

UOP LLC (UOP; Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. (EMRE; Fairfax, Va.) have finalized a technology licensing agreement with a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft under Honeywell’s UOP and EMRE’s joint marketing alliance. The…

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Air Products to build new world-scale H2 plant to support Shell Scotford facility  

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com), and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., today announced plans to build, own and operate a new world-scale hydrogen production plant adjacent to Shell Canada’s Scotford facility located northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The…

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ICA Fluor to build vinyl-chloride-monomer plant in Mexico  

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) says that its ICA Fluor industrial engineering-construction joint venture (JV) with Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: ICA) signed a contract with Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo (PMV), a JV between Mexichem, the leading Mexican petrochemical…

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Technip awarded contract for ethane cracker in Louisiana

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Sasol to supply its proprietary ethylene technology and front-end engineering design (FEED) for a world-class grassroots ethane cracker. This cracker, to be located at Sasol's Lake Charles site in Louisiana, will…

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Clariant divests Detergents & Intermediates Business to ICIG  

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has signed an agreement to divest its Detergents & Intermediates business to International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG; Luxembourg; www.ic-investors.com). The total consideration of the sale amounts to CHF 58 million, out of which 20 million will…