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Axens awarded licences for the Saudi Aramco Jazan Refinery & Terminal Project
Axens' (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) technologies have been selected by Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabi; www.saudiaramco.com) for its Jazan Refinery & Terminal Project. The refinery, scheduled to be commissioned in December 2016, will have a capacity of 400,000 barrels per stream…
Momentive to expand specialty quartz plant in Geesthacht
Yesterday, Momentive Performance Materials Inc.’s (Albany, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) Quartz & Ceramics business kicked off an expansion of its specialty quartz production facility in Geesthacht, Germany, with a ceremony attended by government and business leaders, company officials and plant associates. The…
PPG to increase global production capacity for precipitated silica
PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) is increasing its global precipitated-silica production capacity by more than 18,000 ton/yr in response to growing global demand. The capacity expansion includes projects at PPG’s Lake Charles, La., and Delfzijl, Netherlands, manufacturing locations. Kevin Braun,…
Lanxess to produce first bio-based EPDM rubber in the world
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its commitment to produce premium synthetic rubbers from bio-based raw materials. The German specialty chemicals company aims to commercially produce ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) from bio-based ethylene by the end of the year. It…
PSE announces release of gCRYSTAL
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com), providers of the gPROMS high-fidelity process modeling environment and related ModelCare services, today announced the release of its new gCRYSTAL product. gCRYSTAL provides an integrated, easy-to-use, drag and drop graphical environment for model-based…
B&W to supply modular boilers for the Kearl Oil Sands Project
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd. (B&W Canada) has been awarded a contract to supply four modularized boilers for the Kearl Oil Sands Project (Kearl) being developed by…
Technip awarded a services contract for a fertilizer complex in Brazil
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), within the framework of a cooperation partnership with Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), was awarded a contract for providing basic and front end engineering services on a Petrobras grassroots fertilizer complex to be located at…
Evonik builds new catalyst plant for biodiesel production in Argentina
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is building a new plant for manufacturing catalysts for biodiesel production in Argentina. In an official ceremony held on September 15, 2011. The detail engineering of the facility is already complete. The plant, which…
Axens’ technologies for Petron in the Philippines
Petron Corp. (www.petron.com), the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines, selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply technologies for its Bataan Refinery Upgrading (RMP-2 Project). The project aims heavier crudes processing for higher quality products and propylene…
Technip wins FEED contract for a world-class ammonia-urea fertilizer facility in Gabon
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Gabon Fertilizers Co. a strategic engineering contract for a world-class grassroots ammonia-urea fertilizer project to be developed at Port Gentil, Gabon. The proposed project includes a 2,200 metric ton (m.t.) per day ammonia…