Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded two lump sum contracts by Valero Refining Co. and Diamond Shamrock Refining Co. (both part of the Valero group) for two hydrogen plants at their refineries in Memphis, Tenn. and McKee, Tex. The…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded an order from an Italian company IRASCO for the supply of technology for National Iranian Copper Industries Co.'s copper concentrator expansion located in Sarcheshmeh in Iran. The contract value is nearly €40…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) to provide engineering, procurement, construction management and turnaround management services for a capacity expansion of Huntsman's polyether amines manufacturing facility on Jurong…
ItN Nanovation AG (Saarbrücken; Germany www.itn-nanovation.de), a Nanostart AG (Frankfurt; www.nanostart.de) portfolio company, has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with ThyssenKrupp Xervon Energy GmbH (Duisburg, all Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-xervonenergy.com) covering the marketing and distribution of the Nanocomp PP product line from ItN Nanovation.…
HC Petrochem Co. has selected UOP LLC Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com) to provide technology for an expansion of its petrochemicals plant in Daesan, South Korea. HC Petrochem Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Japan’s Cosmo Oil (Tokyo) and Hyundai Oilbank…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com), announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group, working with PetroAlgae Inc., (Melbourne, Fla.; www.petroalgae.com) has completed its initial testing of PetroAlgae's biomass, with encouraging results. The biomass, produced at PetroAlgae's micro-crop farm…
Toyo Engineering Corp. China, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp), has been awarded a contract for an ethanolamine (ETA) production plant to be constructed in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, by Honam Petrochemical Corp. (Korea;…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that it was awarded the Project Hijau Gasoil Phase-1 by Shell Refining Company FOM Malaysia. The project comprises a new 6,000 metric tons (m.t.) per day diesel-processing unit located in Port Dickson, Malaysia.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has decided to establish a wholly-owned world-scale production base for water treatment and paper chemicals in Nanjing, China, with the construction of a 40,000-ton/yr quaternized-cationic monomers plant and a 20,000-ton/yr cationic-polyacrylamides plant. The two BASF…
SOCAR & Turcas Refining has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) hydrotreating technologies for its Aegean Refinery Project at Aliaga province of the Aegean port city of Izmir. The three units under Axens design and fed by the effluents from an…