Tesoro Corp. (San Antonio, Tex.; www.tsocorp.com) through its affiliate Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company LLC, has acquired Dakota Prairie Refining, LLC (DPR), which owns a refinery near Dickinson, North Dakota, with strategic access to advantaged Bakken crude oil and is…
Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Transferra Nanosciences, Inc., formerly known as Northern Lipids Inc., have signed an asset purchase agreement whereby Evonik will acquire the business and assets of Transferra Nanosciences Inc., a biotechnology company based in Burnaby close to…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) have signed an agreement to conduct a feasibility study on the development of a fully integrated crude-oil-to-chemicals complex to be located in Saudi…
Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.; www.agilent.com) and iLab Solutions, LLC have signed a definitive agreement under which Agilent will acquire substantially all of the assets of iLab, the market leader in cloud-based solutions for core laboratory management. The acquisition…
Convey, load, unload, weigh, feed, and process virtually any bulk solid material Flexicon Corporation is a world leader in the design and manufacture of bulk handling equipment and custom-engineered and integrated plant-wide systems. Flexicon products range from individual equipment to…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently commissioned and brought onstream its second integrated oxy-fuel solution for Techpack Solutions in Korea. The cutting-edge offering helps this leading Korean container glassmaker reap multiple benefits of reduced emissions and improved energy efficiency,…
GEA (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) has designed, manufactured and delivered a gas-jet compressor system for an offshore platform in the North Sea consisting of a jet pump (ejector) with a total length of about 4.5 m and silencers to reduce the…
Air Liquide(Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has entered into an agreement to sell certain assets in the U.S. to Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc., a subsidiary of Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (Tokyo, Japan). Upon closing, these divestitures to Matheson would mark a significant milestone…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) inaugurated its new production plant for water-based pigment preparations in Santa Clara, Mexico. The new plant doubles Clariant’s Mexico annual production capacity for water-based pigment preparations and enhances its ability to serve customers across North and…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to Monroe Energy for the company’s Tier 3 Ultra-Low-Sulfur Gasoline (ULSG) Project at Monroe’s petroleum refinery in Trainer, Pa. Under the terms of…