Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) say it was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) for a propylene production asset project in Freeport, Texas. Fluor successfully completed the front-end engineering…
A carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstration project jointly under way by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric utility, has begun underground injection of carbon dioxide recovered from emissions from a…
Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) signed its first Latin American contract at an official ceremony with Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Bolivia’s state-owned oil company. Joining the historic event was Bolivian President Evo Morales, YPFB President Carlos Villegas, and…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that its technology has been selected to help produce key ingredients for fuels, synthetic rubber and plastics in China. China’s Heilongjiang Anruijia Petrochemical Co. will use UOP’s C4 Oleflex…
A modular gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant incorporating Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) technology developed by Velocys, Inc. (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com), the U.S.-based subsidiary of the Oxford Catalysts Group (Abingdon, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com), has been chosen by Calumet Specialty Product Partners, L.P., major U.S.-based producer…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has won orders totaling $140 million from Vale S.A. (Vale) to supply automation and electrical equipment for the world’s largest iron ore project investment, which comprises in the development of a mine and a processing plant…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract by Lotte Chemical UK Ltd. to provide construction management services for a new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant to be built at the Wilton International Site in Redcar, Cleveland, U.K.…
Athabasca Oil Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) has awarded GE (www.ge.com) a contract to design and supply an integrated evaporator system for its 12,000-bbl/d Hangingstone oil sands operation located near Fort McMurray in northeastern Alberta, Canada. GE’s produced water evaporation process…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently signed a contract to supply its integrated oxy-fuel solution to Jinxin Glass in Jiyuan, Henan Province, China to help Jinxin reduce emissions and improve productivity and quality in its glass production. A manufacturer…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Iowa Fertilizer Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orascom Construction Industries (OCI), to provide licensing, engineering services and proprietary equipment for its grassroots fertilizer plant in Southeastern Iowa. The plant will be…