Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) signed a sulfur recovery technology licensor agreement with Paqell, a joint venture between Shell Global Solutions and Paques B.V., for use of its Thiopaq O&G (Oil and Gas) technology in refineries and gas…
Statoil, Shell and Total have signed a partnership agreement to mature the development of carbon storage on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The project is part of the Norwegian authorities’ efforts to develop full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) in…
Honeywell announced today that Nanjing Chengzhi Yongqing Energy Technology Co. Ltd. will build its second methanol-to-olefins (MTO) process unit, which converts methanol from coal and other sources into the olefins that are the essential ingredients for making plastics. The technology…
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.engineering-airliquide.com) has just signed a new equipment supply contract with Yulin Energy and Chemical Corporation of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group, a large energy and chemical company in China. Under the terms…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its existing production plants for polymer binders in South Korea . The company plans to build a new spray dryer for dispersible polymer powders at its Ulsan site. The dryer will have…
China’s largest acrylic producer, Zhejiang Satellite Energy Co., Ltd, recently selected Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) to provide a reactor effluent compressor train for Phase II of its propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Pinghu City in China’s Zhejian province. The…
The technology group Wärtsilä Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.wartsila.com) is to supply the generating equipment to provide the electrical power for an extension to a major Pakistani cement manufacturing facility. Cherat Cement Ltd. has contracted Wärtsilä to supply three Wärtsilä 34DF…
Bühler Ltd. (Uzwil, Switzerland; www.buhlergroup.com) celebrated the ground breaking for its Innovation Campus in Uzwil, Switzerland. Completion of the building is expected for the first quarter of 2019. This significant investment of over CHF 50 million (about $52 million) spent…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will build a new specialty amines plant at its existing wholly owned site in Nanjing Chemical Industry Park in China. The new multi-product plant can manufacture 21,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) and further extends…
DowDuPont Materials Science (www.dow-dupont.com), the business division of DowDuPont (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to be named Dow, announced the startup of its new integrated world-scale ethylene production facility and its new Elite enhanced polyethylene (PE) production facility, both in Freeport, Texas.…