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PetroAlgae and Haldor Topsøe: Partnership to develop renewable fuels based on biomass
PetroAlgae Inc. (Melbourne, Fla; www.petroalgae.com) has entered into an agreement with Haldor Topsøe S/A (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) and its U.S. subsidiary, Haldor Topsoe, Inc. (Houston) to provide technology and catalysts to upgrade oils produced from Petroalgae’s biomass through refinery coking…
Shell Global Solutions and Sulzer Chemtech extend strategic alliance
Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com/home/content/globalsolutions) and Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzerchemtech.com) have renewed and extended their strategic alliance agreement, originally concluded in 2000. The new agreement further strengthens the long-standing relationship between Shell Global…
Uhde to supply turnkey skid-mounted chlor-alkali electrolysis plant to Leuna-Harze
With today’s turning of the first sod in Leuna, Germany, Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) has begun construction of its first ever skid-mounted chlor-alkali electrolysis plant. Uhde was awarded the contract by Leuna-Harze GmbH, one of Europe’s leading producers of…
EPA proposes first national standard for mercury pollution from power plants
In response to a court deadline, today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) proposed the first-ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollution from power plants. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards…
Topsøe: Hydrotreating unit for refinery in Venezuela
Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a contract for the Centro de Refinación Paraguaná Project. The contract includes an 85,000 barrels per stream day (bpsd) hydrotreating unit, which will be the biggest…
Jacobs lands contract from Jubail Chemical Industrial
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received an award from the Jubail Chemical Industrial Co. to provide technical and project management services for its existing epichlorohydrin plant expansion and a new epichlorohydrin plant at the Jubail, Saudi Arabia…
CB&I: Kearl oil-sands contract
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Imperial Oil Resources for engineering, procurement and construction work on the Kearl oil-sands project in Alberta, Canada. The value of CB&I's work scope is in excess of $900 million,…
Wacker expands polysilicon production
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has decided to expand its production facilities for hyperpure polysilicon at its Burghausen and Nünchritz sites in Germany. By taking debottlenecking measures within its integrated production network, it will increase annual quantities at each…
BMS to invest €100 million in Germany
Bayer MaterialScience AG (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) plans to invest roughly €100 million in the expansion of the high-tech production plant for MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) at the Bayer Brunsbüttel Industrial Park in Germany. The project is part of the phased…
KBR: Aniline technology license to Connell
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Inner Mongolia Connell Chemical Industry Co. (Connell) to provide licensing, basic engineering and related training and field services for its grassroots aniline plant in TongLiao, Inner Mongolia Province, China. The…