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Fluor secures Sasol’s tar-separator-replacement project in South Africa
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has begun work on a new project for Sasol Technology Pty. Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) for its Tar Separator Project. The new contract is for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the replacement…
Outotec awarded several orders for copper and molybdenum projects in Iran
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded multiple orders, worth a total of €265 million, for technology deliveries to National Iranian Copper Industries Co.'s (NICICO) copper and molybdenum projects in Iran. Approximately €58 million of these contracts will be…
Pöyry awarded detailed engineering for the iron-ore-beneficiation plant expansion in Brazil
Pöyry Oyj’s (Vantaa, Finland; www.poyry.com) Industry business group has been awarded a services assignment by Companhia Siderurgica Nacional S.A. (CSN) for detailed engineering to finalize the iron ore beneficiation plant expansion at Casa de Pedra Mine in the state of…
Overall U.S. chemical employment up slightly for June, but production workers down, ACC says
Employment in the U.S. chemical industry was 0.1% higher (up by 900 jobs) in June compared to the previous month, driven by a gain in non-production worker employment, according to economic data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that…
BP licenses its latest generation PTA technology to JBF Petrochemicals
BP (London, U.K.; www.bp.com) and JBF Petrochemicals (a wholly owned subsidiary of JBF Industries Ltd.) have signed an agreement for licensing BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology. JBF intends to build a 1.25 million metric tons per annum…
Innovations Metals plans centralized rare-earth separation plant
Innovation Metals Corp. (Toronto, Canada; www.innovationmetals.com) has announced the submission of a Project Notice to the Province of Quebec, to start the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process for a new rare-earth-element separation facility. The Becancour Waterfront Industrial Park in Quebec…
ThyssenKrupp Uhde acquires E&P Global
ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) is strengthening its capabilities in the global oil-and-gas business through the acquisition of E&P Global Ltd. (London, England) and its subsidiaries Energy and Power Consultants Ltd. in London and Energy and Power Ltd.…
Praxair China starts up ASU to supply coal gasification in Wuwei
Praxair (China) Investment Co. (Shanghai, China; www.praxair.cn) has started up a large air separation plant in Wuwei, Anhui province, 100 km from Nanjing, to supply oxygen, nitrogen, and clean air to the Anhui Wuwei coal-based chemicals project of Anhui HuaYi…
Aquatech to install wastewater recycle and ZLG system in China
Aquatech International Corp. (Canonsburg, Pa.; www.aquatech.com) has been awarded a contract for the design, engineering, supply and supervision of installation and commissioning of a concentrated brine treatment plant at the Chinacoal Tuke Fertilizer Project in China. The project is located…
KBR to provide engineering and procurement services for first-of-a-kind plant in Iowa
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says it has been awarded a contract for engineering and procurement services for DuPont’s first cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa. KBR will provide front-end engineering, detailed engineering and procurement services to DuPont's Industrial Biosciences Group for…