Haldor Topsoe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) synthesis-gas technology has been chosen for OLTIN YO’L GTL — a 38,000 barrels per day gas-to-liquids (GTL) energy plant in Uzbekistan. Topsoe will deliver proprietary equipment for two synthesis-gas trains, each including autothermal reformers…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) has been awarded a contract for the construction of a mega-solar power generation project planned by Pacifico Energy K.K. in Mimasaka City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The lump sum turnkey contract calls for JGC to carry…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has appointed a new head of Corporate Development. Dr. Jens-Christian Blad (39) will assume responsibility for the group function by September 1, 2017, at the latest. Blad studied chemistry in Kiel, obtained his doctorate in…
Dr. Peter Feldhaus (50), currently CEO of Marine Systems of thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp.com), is to be the new CEO of the Industrial Solutions business area (www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com). At its meeting yesterday, the Industrial Solutions supervisory board appointed him executive…
India’s ambitious infrastructure projects for traffic congestion raise the annual bitumen demand from 4.8 to 7 million tons within the next years. Hence, the Indian Oil Company Ltd. (IOCL), India’s largest commercial enterprise, invested in another bitumen plant. In February…
TechnipFMC (Paris, France; www.technipfmc.com) has been awarded by Zakum Development Co. an engineering, procurement and construction contract (EPC3) project) for a sulfate-reduction plant on West Island located offshore Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The objective of the EPC3 project…
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com), announced today that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox SPIG, Inc. (B&W SPIG), was awarded three major contracts totaling more than $60 million in the first quarter of 2017 to design and…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a division of Honeywell International Inc., today announced that it has won a contract from Dangote Oil Refinery Company Ltd. for critical equipment, technology licensing and design services for a world-scale integrated petroleum refinery…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has started up a new plant in the Banan District in Chongqing City, western China, to supply China’s highest-generation, most advanced and most efficient TFT-LCD (thin-film transistor liquid crystal display) fab, which is now…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been selected by Lubrizol to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for Lubrizol’s new Polyisobutylene (PIB) unit in Deer Park, Texas. Executives from both companies, including Eric Schnur, Lubrizol chairman, president…