KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a license and basic engineering design (LBED) contract by Hyundai Oilbank (HDO) for an 80,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) ROSE unit in Daesan, South Korea. The unit will be built using KBR's proprietary ROSE technology,…
GEA (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) has received a larger order from MSP Engineering Pty Ltd, to equip a new, ultra-modern facility for Tianqi Lithium Australia Pty Ltd for the production and processing of lithium. In detail, GEA will supply and install…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has signed an agreement with the Russian joint- stock company Polyester Plant Ivanovo to build a new PET polymer and staple fiber production plant. The facility with a production capacity of up to 200,000…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) has been awarded the contract for the construction of a Methionine production facility for Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp). This new plant, which will be constructed alongside Sumitomo Chemical’s existing factory located in…
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S (B&W Vølund), has been awarded a contract for nearly $40 million to design a waste-to-energy boiler for Shenzhen Energy Environmental Engineering…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn S.A., part of Grupa Azoty (Tarnów, Poland), the second largest producer of mineral fertilizers in the European Union, have signed a long-term contract for the delivery of oxygen…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com) has received an order for supply of systems to support a large-scale polyethylene production train for ExxonMobil's Beaumont Polyethylene plant. The new production train is slated to be completed in 2019, and…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded a five year engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services contract for the Pearl Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) and associated facilities in Qatar. Under the contract, WorleyParsons will provide EPCm services primarily for…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco), one of the largest copper producers in the world, for the construction of two sulfuric acid plants…
The BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany; www.vw.com) international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University, California. The jury of representatives from BASF, Volkswagen and from academia selected him for his…