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Total acquires Maersk Oil for $7.45 billion

Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) is pleased to announce that the Boards of Total and A.P. Møller – Mærsk have both approved the acquisition of 100% of the equity of the E&P company Maersk Oil & Gas A/S (Maersk Oil;…

Linde to supply Hydroprime technology for renewable fuels in Sweden

The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde-group.com) has been awarded with the engineering and supply of a modular hydrogen manufacturing unit for St1 Refinery in Gothenburg, Sweden. Linde’s Engineering Division (www.linde-engineering.com) will start the engineering and construction of the unit immediately,…

Pemex Fertilizantes Selects Jacobs for Ammonia IV Rehabilitation Project

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract from Pemex Fertilizantes to deliver project management contract (PMC) services for the Ammonia IV Rehabilitation Project in the Cosoleacaque Petrochemical Complex in Veracruz, Mexico. Pemex Fertilizantes is rehabilitating…

Pfeiffer Vacuum opens first service center in Malaysia

Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH (Aßlar, Germany; www.pfeiffer-vacuum.com) has opened a new service center in Malaysia. The more than 6,000-ft2 building will house administration, sales, and service departments. The main activities will be the repair of the dry backing pump range. Other…

SGL Group signs agreement to sell its CFL/CE business to Triton

SGL Group (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglgroup.com) signed the sale and purchase agreement to sell its cathodes, furnace linings, and carbon electrodes (CFL/CE) business to funds advised by Triton Beratungsgesellschaft GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.triton-partners.com). The two parties have agreed on…

Amec Foster Wheeler wins Hyundai Engineering contract for GTL plant in Uzbekistan

Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has been awarded a lump sum contract by Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd for the delivery of hydrogen plant technology and design and materials supply for a Terrace Wall steam-reformer heater for Uzbekneftegaz National Holding…

Nuberg wins Hydrogen Peroxide Turnkey Project at Giza, Egypt

El Nasr Co. for Intermediate Chemicals (NCIC) has entrusted Nuberg Engineering Ltd. (Noida, India; www.nubergepc.com), as a single-point solution company — from concept to commissioning — with a contract for technology, engineering and construction of a hydrogen peroxide plant in…

Lanxess doubles membrane production capacity

As announced previously in mid-2017, Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has doubled its membrane capacities. “We have expanded the capacity of our plant in Bitterfeld so that we can continue meeting the rising demand for reverse osmosis membrane elements. This…

KBR wins LBED contract for ammonia plant revamp in Russia

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Dorogobuzh JSC (owned by JSC ACRON) to provide licensing and basic engineering design (LBED) to revamp an ammonia plant — originally built by KBR — located in the Dorogobuzh, Smolensk…

Evonik expands fumed silica capacities in Antwerp

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is investing an amount in the upper double-digit million euro range in the expansion of its fumed silica capacities in Antwerp, Belgium. The production complex is scheduled to become operational in the summer of…