CB&I awarded contract for LACC Ethane Cracker Project
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded an early works contract by LACC, LLC, a joint venture between Axiall Corp. and Lotte Chemical Corp., to provide additional detailed engineering and early procurement services associated with the proposed LACC…
Hoerbiger acquires IEP Technologies
Effective September 1, 2015, Hoerbiger Group (Zug, Switzerland; www.hoerbiger.com) will acquire internationally renowned explosion protection specialist IEP Technologies, LLC (Marlborough, Mass. ; www.ieptechnologies.com) from Sentinel Capital Partners (New York, N.Y.; www.sentinelpartners.com). This acquisition will make Hoerbiger one of the…
Evonik opens new C4 plants with innovative technology in Marl
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has started up new production plants for C4-based products in the Marl Chemical Park, Germany. These were formally opened today in the presence of Hannelore Kraft, Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Klaus Engel,…
Haldor Topsoe acquires unique furnace monitoring technology
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark, www.topsoe.com) has signed an agreement with Increase Performance Inc. to acquire full ownership of the Furnace Manager Technology. The acquisition will be an important expansion of the technology and service offering to Topsoe’s global…
Amec Foster Wheeler awarded Dung Quat refinery contract
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) was awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract by Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd (BSR), a subsidiary of state-owned Vietnam National Oil & Gas Group (PetroVietnam), for their Dung Quat…
Messer invests in new specialty gas plant in China
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden/Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has invested 33 million euros in a new specialty gas facility in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu province. Messer will supply companies in the electronics industry, in…
Fluor and COOEC form new fabrication JV
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has agreed with Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. (COOEC), a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corp., to form a new joint venture (JV), COOEC Fluor Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (CFHI), through which the…
Japanese consortia intend to build IGCC plant in Fukushima Prefecture
Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. (TEPCO), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Joban Joint Power Co., today concluded a letter of intent to promote the development of the world's most advanced coal-fired thermal power plants in…
Air Products opens Doe Canyon helium plant
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) opened its new Doe Canyon helium production facility in Colorado. The Doe Canyon helium plant is the only one in the world extracting helium from a gas stream composed primarily of carbon dioxide.…
BASF increases production capacity for chelating agents in Ludwigshafen
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing in the expansion and flexibilization of its production facilities to manufacture chelating agents at its site in Ludwigshafen. By increasing the production capacity, the company is responding to the rapidly growing global…