Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) will invest over €50 million in its Andalusian chemical plants in 2016 (€30.1 million at its plants in San Roque, Cádiz, and €20 million in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva), to…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland: www.clariant.com) today announces two acquisitions in the oilfield-production-chemicals business. After closing, the agreed purchases of Kel-Tech Inc. (Midland, Tex.) and X-Chem LLC (Irving, Tex.) add approx. $200 million of sales, as well as personnel, technology and expertise…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Ineos Oligomers to design and build a large linear alpha olefin (LAO) unit at the Ineos petrochemical complex in Chocolate Bayou, Texas. The LAO unit is expected to…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London; U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has been awarded a contract by JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) to design and supply a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generator for the SEC210 Phase 2 Project in the Philippines for Sarangani Energy Corp.…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by a major North American petroleum refiner for the technology license and engineering design of a new alkylation process unit to be located on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The unit…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) has selected its La Porte, Tex., manufacturing complex as the site for a new High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Plant. The plant will be the first commercial plant to employ LyondellBasell's new proprietary Hyperzone PE technology…
Patented Lance-Less Sorbent Injection for Significant Savings Lance-Less Sorbent Injection Dry sorbent injection is a technology often used in the mitigation of various of air pollutants from utilities and industrial boilers. It offers a low-capital cost method to mitigate SO2,…
A Midwest chemical plant serving the automotive and OEM market needed to replace an aging carbon steel horizontal cylinder bulk storage tank with a new stainless steel vertical cylinder tank. The customer needed an overfill protection solution for the tank…
Endress+Hauser non-contact radar measures level in corrosive chemical tanks A U.S. water treatment plant operating at 85 MGD capacity was in need of accurate and reliable level measurement for chemical tanks with product density variations due to temperature changes, without…
3M (St. Paul, Minn.; www.3m.com) has entered into an agreement to sell the assets of its temporary protective films business to Pregis LLC. 3M’s temporary protective films business is a provider of adhesive-backed temporary protective films used in a broad…