0 0 0 KBR (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Sonangol, E.P. to provide license and engineering services for grassroots fluid-catalytic-cracking (FCC) and hydroprocessing technologies for the Sonaref Refinery to be located in Lobito, Angola. KBR will…
0 0 0 InterMed Discovery GmbH (IMD; Dortmund, Germany; www.intermed-discovery.com), has acquired of unique microbial Omega-3 fatty acid (FA) production strains and related know-how from the University of Saarland. This innovative microbial source has the potential to produce Omega-3 more…
Lummus Technology, a CB&I company (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $40 million by CTCI Corp. (Taipei; www.ctci.com.tw) for the material supply of eight cracking heaters. The heaters, with a capacity of 720,000 metric…
0 0 0 GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; ) has won a milestone order from the Zheiiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Taizhou Zheiiang, China) for the supply of pharmaceutical freeze dryers with automatic load and unload systems (ALUS). The order…
Solutia Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.) announced today that it will be supplying Therminol VP-1 synthetic heat transfer fluid to a new 470 MW, hybrid solar plant in Ain-Ben-Mathar, Morocco and a 170 MW, hybrid solar plant in Hassi R'Mel, Algeria.…
For the past year, leaders of five societies representing more than one million engineers and other technical professionals have been meeting to identify steps the U.S. might take toward managing carbon emissions, a key issue in climate change discussions, should…
Honeywell (Morris Township, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) has completed the acquisition of the RMG Group (RMG Regel + Messtechnik GmbH and all of its subsidiaries, together RMG; www.rmg.de) for approximately $400 million. The acquisition strengthens Honeywell’s position in the high-growth clean energy…
Univation Technologies, LLC (Houston, Tex.; www.univation.com) has begun construction of a new polyethylene (PE) catalyst-manufacturing facility in China with a scheduled 2011 startup. The facility will be located in Zhangjiagang within the Jiangsu province of the People’s Republic of China. …
Remmers Baustofftechnik GmbH (Löningen, Germany; www.remmers.de) was awarded the contract to supply coatings for the Bandra Worli Sea Link Bridge in India. It is estimated that 120,000 L of Remmers’ Funcosil Betonacryl will be required to cover the 5.6-km long…
AVEVA Group plc (Houston), a leading provider of plant design and engineering lifecycle solutions, today announced that Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.), one of the world's largest publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance (EPCM), and project management companies, has extended its…