Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a feasibility study contract from Equinor Energy AS to evaluate the possibilities for building a hydrogen production plant, including CO2 capture and export facilities, in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. The hydrogen will…
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has signed a 15-year hydrogen supply contract with RÜTGERS Germany, a subsidiary of Rain Carbon Inc. The industrial gases company will now invest a total of €9 million in a hydrogen production facility…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) contract by Abu Dhabi Polymer Company (Borouge) for a new polypropylene unit (PP5 Project) in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, in the UAE. Borouge is the joint…
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) will convert an alkylation unit using hydrofluoric acid (HF) to Honeywell UOP’s solid-bed Detal-Plus technology at its refinery in San Roque, Spain. The unit…
The board of directors of Milliken & Company’s (Spartanburg, S.C.; www.milliken.com) announced the appointment of Halsey M. Cook Jr. as president and CEO effective September 1, 2018. J. Harold Chandler will return to his role as chair of the board of…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract from Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) to provide capital construction, maintenance and turnaround services at its facilities in Longview, Texas, and Kingsport, Tennessee. This contract represents additional maintenance…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has delivered the catalyst for a new regenerative catalytic oxidizer at the Sinopec Qilu styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) plant in Zibo – the biggest rubber producer in China and part of Sinopec Group, the world’s…
Tanaka Holdings Co. (Tokyo; www.pro.tanaka.co.jp) announced that Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., which operates Tanaka’s Precious Metals manufacturing business, established a new Fuel Cell (FC) Catalysts Development Center in Kanagawa Prefecture to develop and manufacture electrode catalysts to be used in…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investigating the possibility of building a highly-integrated “Verbund” chemical production site in the South Chinese province of Guangdong. Martin Brudermüller, BASF’s Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, and Lin Shaochun, Executive Vice Governor…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Indonesian company PT Chandra Asri Perkasa Tbk (CAP), has selected LyondellBasell’s polypropylene (PP) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) technologies for two new plants. The plants will be constructed in its second petrochemical complex in…