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Honeywell to acquire Compressor Control Corp. for $670 million

Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.) announced it has agreed to acquire Compressor Controls Corporation (CCC) from INDICOR, LLC, which is owned by funds affiliated with private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC and Roper Technologies, Inc., for $670 million, which represents…

Solvay to supply technology license for hydrogen peroxide mega-plant in China

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has signed a license agreement with Guangxi Chlor-Alkali Chemical (GHCAC)1 which will enable the Chinese partner to build and operate a hydrogen peroxide megaplant at Qinzhou (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) designed to support its 300,000-ton/yr propylene…

Saipem and Clough to jointly build major urea plant in Western Australia

Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Clough, the Australian subsidiary of the Webuild Group, in an equally shared (50/50) joint venture, have reached full contractual effectiveness by the achievement of the Commencement Date for the development of Perdaman Industries’…

Abengoa starts up phase two of major desalination project in Abu Dhabi

Abengoa SA (Seville, Spain), in consortium with the company SEPCOIII, has started commercial operation of phase two of the Taweelah desalination plant (Abu Dhabi), following the successful completion of the contractual tests. This is the largest reverse osmosis desalination plant…

Keppel and ExxonMobil to explore low-carbon ammonia solutions for Singapore

Keppel Infrastructure and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop access to low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia for scalable commercial and industrial applications in Singapore. In addition to being a hydrogen carrier and…

Stamicarbon announces contract for new urea plant in China

Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands) has signed a contract covering PDP, licensing and equipment supply for an Ultra-Low Energy grassroots urea plant in Jiangxi province, China. This will be the largest Stamicarbon Ultra-Low Energy plant with a design capacity of…

NextChem awarded new contract for biomethane project in Normandy

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its Sustainable Technology Solutions subsidiary NextChem, after having completed the methanation advanced basic engineering study announced in July 2022 for the Salamandre project in the Normandy region, has been awarded a new contract…

Fluor’s carbon-capture technology selected for renewable-diesel facility in Saskatchewan

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that it has signed a license agreement with Federated Co-Operatives Limited (FCL) for the application of Fluor’s Econamine FG Plus carbon capture technology at FCL’s Co-op Renewable Diesel Complex in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Fluor also…

KBR awarded contract for Chemours’ Nafion expansion

KBR, Inc.  (Houston) announced  it has been awarded an engineering and design services contract from The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) to increase capacity and advance technology for its industry-leading Nafion ion-exchange materials platform. The contract is part of Chemours’ $200…

Toyo awarded contract for ExxonMobil’s new lubricants plant in India

Toyo Engineering Corp. announced that its wholly owned subisdiary Toyo Engineering India Pvt. Ltd. has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil Lubricants Private Limited (EMLPL) for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) of 159,000 kL/year lubricant manufacturing plant at…