KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has secured a contract for its ammonia synthesis technology from Wuhuan Engineering Co., Ltd., a leading Chinese EPC Contractor, for the Talcher fertilizer unit as part of a benchmark coal-to-urea project in India. Under the…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Ceyhan Polipropilen Uretim A.Ş, a joint venture between Rönesans Holding and Sonatrach S.p.A., has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a polypropylene (PP) unit to be constructed in Ceyhan, Turkey. The new plant will…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) plans to increase its capacity for sodium methylate at its Rosario/Santa Fe facility in Argentina from 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) up to 90,000 m.t./yr until 2021. The expansion is driven by growing…
Chemical compatibility charts are often used as a quick and concise way to match the proper fluid with a seal. However, there is much more to consider with the chemical compatibility of a seal in relation to the fluids in…
As part of PKN ORLEN’s project to expand its olefin production complex in Płock, Poland, Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has been selected for technical consultancy and Project Management Contractor (PMC) services. Fluor’s services contract is expected to optimally prepare…
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) has completed the acquisition of Freeport Cobalt’s cobalt refining and cathode precursor activities in Kokkola, Finland, for an amount of $203 million on a debt and cash free basis (including approximately $50 million of net…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has acquired Itibanyl Produtos Especiais Ltda. (IPEL). Headquartered in Jarinu, São Paulo, IPEL is one of Brazil’s leading biocide manufacturers and generated sales in the lower double-digit million euro range in 2018. Both companies signed an…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) and Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.co.za) announced that they have entered into a collaboration agreement to jointly license their gas-to-liquids (GTL) technologies. For many years, the two companies have worked together on numerous…
Terra Drone Indonesia, a group company of Terra Drone Corp. (Tokyo; www.terra-drone.net), has conducted drone-based visual inspections of onshore flare stacks for energy major Chevron (PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia). The drone-based flare stack inspection was done in Duri field, one…
Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.valmet.com) will supply an energy management solution to optimize production and energy consumption at Kemira Chemicals’ (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) bleaching chemical plants in Äetsä and Joutseno in Finland. The order was included in Valmet’s orders received…