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Wood Group wins major U.K. refinery contract from Total

Wood Goup plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodgroup.com) has been awarded a new multi-million dollar contract by Total, supporting their Lindsey Oil Refinery located in North Killinghome, Lincolnshire, U.K. The five-year contract is to provide onshore maintenance services and includes the option…

Celanese completes global debottlenecking projects

Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced the completion of key debottlenecking projects and product transfers at its global manufacturing facilities to support customer demand and project pipeline growth in the company’s engineered materials business. “These production debottlenecks, completed in the…

Jacobs signs Thiopaq O&G sulfur-recovery technology licensor agreement with Paqell

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) signed a sulfur recovery technology licensor agreement with Paqell, a joint venture between Shell Global Solutions and Paques B.V., for use of its Thiopaq O&G (Oil and Gas) technology in refineries and gas…

Emerson acquires pipeline software supplier GeoFields

Emerson (Saint Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) has acquired GeoFields, Inc., a leading global supplier of software and implementation services for pipeline integrity data collection, management and risk analysis for the oil and gas industry. GeoFields software enables pipeline operators to collect…

Air Products to install new technology at Barrick oxygen plant in Nevada

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently signed a contract with Barrick Goldstrike that extends its long-standing agreement to operate and maintain Barrick’s oxygen plant in Elko, Nevada. In addition to running the Barrick plant, Air Products plans to install…

Oxiteno nears completion of Pasadena alkoxylation plant

Oxiteno’s (São Paulo, Brazil; www.oxiteno.com) new alkoxylation plant in Pasadena, Texas approaches its final phase of completion and is scheduled to startup in the beginning of 2018. With 170,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of capacity, the new unit utilizes…

Indorama will acquire DuPont Teijin Films

Indorama Ventures Public Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire DuPont Teijin Films (DTF), a leading global producer of Biaxially-oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate (BOPET) and Polyethylene Naphthalate (PEN) films with total film/polymer…

DSM adds production capacity for UV-curable coatings at Taiwan facility

 Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) announced that it has increased capacity with the addition of the DSM-AGI Taiwan facility for production of UV curable coatings for its fiber optic materials business. This expansion allows the business to meet increased…

Sadara appoints new CEO

Sadara Chemical Co. (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sadara.com), which recently announced commercial operations of the full chemical complex in Jubail Industrial City II, has appointed Faisal Al-Faqeer of Saudi Aramco as the new Chief Executive Officer. Consistent with this appointment, Dr.…

Songwon commissions second thermoplastic urethanes production line

As part of its global expansion strategy, Songwon Industrial Ltd. (Ulsan, South Korea; www.songwon.com) has commissioned a second thermoplastic urethane (TPU) production line, to become operational in the fourth quarter of 2017. The company’s plant in Suwon, South Korea will…