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Gevo to sell renewable natural gas production to bp

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced that its wholly-owned dairy-manure-based renewable natural gas (RNG) project company located in northwest Iowa, Gevo NW Iowa RNG, LLC, has signed binding, definitive agreements with BP Canada Energy Marketing Corp. and BP Products North America…

KBR awarded ethylene technology contract by Hyundai Engineering and Técnicas Reunidas for PKN Orlen Olefins Complex

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a technology licensing contract by Hyundai Engineering Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) for PKN ORLEN's Petrochemical Development Program in Plock, Poland. Under the terms of…

Green hydrogen and methanol project announced in Iceland

Icelandic utility company HS Orka and Hydrogen Ventures Ltd. (H2V; London) have announced plans to develop a production plant for green methanol using green hydrogen to power the marine sector, as well as domestic and commercial vehicles such as cars,…

Sumitomo Rubber pilots hydrogen-powered tire manufacturing

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. is pleased to announce that, with the backing and support of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO, a national research and development agency), the company’s major tire factory in the City of Shirakawa…

McDermott wins EPCC contract for IOCL’s Barauni Refinery expansion

McDermott International, Ltd (Houston) announced a contract award for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) of a new naptha hydrotreating unit and a new isomerization unit with associated facilities for the Barauni Refinery Expansion Project in Bihar, India, for…

Maire Tecnimont awarded €130-million contract for new LDPE/EVA plant in Kazan

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiaries Tecnimont Planung & Industrieanlagenbau GmbH and MT Russia LLC have been awarded by Kazanorgsintez PJSC (KOS) an EP contract (Engineering and Procurement) for the execution of a Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE)/ Ethylene-Vinyl…

Wood wins EPCM contract for Röhm’s new MMA plant in Texas

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has launched a significant digitally-forward project with Röhm, a leading methacrylate manufacturer, where project work will be fully integrated with state-of-the-art technology solutions provided by AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software. Wood will deliver engineering,…

FLSmidth acquires thyssenkrupp’s Mining business for €325 million

FLSmidth (Copenhagen, Denmark) and thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany), a fully owned subsidiary of thyssenkrupp AG,  have reached an agreement that FLSmidth will acquire thyssenkrupp’s Mining business1 (TK Mining) for a total consideration (enterprise value) of €325 million, corresponding…

BASF and Sinopec to further expand JV site in Nanjing

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and SINOPEC (Beijing, China) will further expand their Verbund site operated by BASF-YPC Co., Ltd. (BASF-YPC), a 50-50 joint venture (JV) of both companies in Nanjing, China. It includes the capacity expansion of several downstream chemical…

Wood and Nexus partner to expand plastic-waste conversion plant

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has partnered with Nexus, LLC, a waste-to-virgin plastics company, to rapidly expand their commercial-scale production plant based in Atlanta, Georgia.  The plant converts plastic waste into products that are then converted into virgin recycled-content plastics.  The expansion of…