Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with RB Met Engineering (Pty) Ltd. and Xstrata Merafe PSV for the delivery of chromite sintering technology to Xstrata Merafe’s ferrochrome plant located in Rustenburg in South Africa. The contract value is…
INEOS Group (ineos.com) has today entered into a binding agreement for the sale of its Global Films business (www.ineosfilms.com) to Bilcare AG (www.bilcare.com), one of the world’s leading providers of research led packaging to the global pharmaceuticals industry, for approximately…
AdvanceBio Systems LLC (Cincinnati, Ohio) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colo.) to provide a Biomass Pretreatment Reactor System for its Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility. The equipment will be…
Considering that a large fraction of the synthesis gas (syngas) produced today is made by steam reforming of natural gas, it might seem curious that in some parts of the world, syngas is being converted into substitute natural gas (SNG).…
Siemens’ technology to be used for IGCC project in the U.S. July 19, 2010 — Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com) has been awarded a front-end engineering design contract by Summit Texas Clean Energy LLC to provide coal gasification and power…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama; www.jgc.co.jp), INPEX Corp. (Tokyo, both Japan; www.inpex.co.jp) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) have entered into an agreement to jointly carry out demonstration tests on a new technology for effectively capturing and recovering CO2 contained in natural…
Xebec Adsorption Inc. (Xebec; Montreal, Canada; www.xebecinc.com) has signed a significant contract to build a complete biogas upgrading plant for Terasen Gas, a major energy utility in western Canada. "Xebec strives to establish strategic partnerships with leading Canadian utilities to move…
The Separex membrane system of UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected for the removal of contaminants from natural gas produced from a large shale formation found in British Columbia. Apache Corp. will use the…
Biffa Group (www.biffa.com) has announced a strategic alliance with M+W Group’s (Stuttgart, Germany; www.mwgroup.net) U.K. team, which will act as the turnkey contractor for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of Biffa’s new waste management facility at the company’s Brookhurst…
Parsons (Pasadena, Calif.; www.parsons.com) has signed a strategic alliance agreement with SCFI (Super Critical Fluids International) Group (Cork, Ireland; www.scfi.eu), an Irish company at the forefront of developing innovative environmental technology applicable to areas of renewable energy, wet waste processing, and…