SNC-Lavalin, Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has signed a contract for the implementation of the first phase of the Cerrejon Coal Mine Project in Colombia. SNC-Lavalin, in a 50-50 joint venture (JV) with partner Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM; www.globalskm.com), will provide…
Honeywell (Morris Township, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) has formed a new business unit within Honeywell Process Solutions (Phoenix, Ariz.; www.honeywell.com/ps) called Advanced Solutions. This business integrates the open connectivity and broad-platform capability of Honeywell’s Matrikon acquisition with its applications and solutions business.…
Process Systems Enterprise Ltd. (PSE; London; www.psenterprise.com), providers of the gSOLIDS modeling environment for integrated solids processes, today announced that it has joined the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS). C-SOPS is a consortium of…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will supply a gasifier to sustain new gasification technology to Göteborg Energi AB´s innovative project GoBiGas20MW. The value of the order is approximately €30 million, and the order was already included in Energy and Environmental…
Chemical industry employment in the U.S. slipped by 2,700 to 775,300 people in January, but overall, nonfarm payrolls rose, according to data collected by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Citing information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a feasibility study contract by Karnalyte Resources Inc. for the Wynyard Carnallite Potash Project in Saskatchewan, Canada. The study will consider initial…
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced additional details of the Department of Energy's (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) "SunShot" initiative to reduce the total costs of photovoltaic solar energy systems by about 75% so that they are cost competitive at…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) announced a collaboration with Saudi Arabia's King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM; Dhahran; www.kfupm.edu.sa) that will focus on the development of catalytic processes for petrochemicals production. The two entities have signed a…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), in a consortium with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., has been awarded by Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) and MISC Berhad a front-end engineering and design contract for a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit. The…
Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.; www.chevron.com) has announced that Chevron Lubricants will commence construction of a lubricants manufacturing facility at the company's Pascagoula refinery. The $1.4-billion Pascagoula Base Oil Project (PBOP) is projected to generate approximately 1,000 jobs over the…