Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodplc.com) has been awarded a prestigious multi-million-dollar contract by the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative Climate Investments (OGCI CI) to provide conceptual engineering for its gas power and industrial carbon capture conceptual design work. This project…
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals; www.akzonobel.com) will double production capacity for solvent-based organic peroxides at its Los Reyes, Mexico site, enabling it to support the strong growth of the North American polyolefin and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) markets. The expansion is…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced a sizeable contract award from Unipetrol RPA for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for its petroleum refinery in Litvinov, Czech Republic. The contract includes the full suite of EPCM services for the…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has successfully started up a Kepstan PEKK (Poly-Ether-Ketone-Ketone) plant at its site near Mobile, Alabama. This investment is a new step in Arkema’s ambitious growth strategy in high-performance polymers and advanced materials development. This investment, which…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has started the pre-front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) and FEED for INVISTA’s (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) new adiponitrile (ADN) manufacturing facility in China. The manufacturing facility is anticipated to have a production capacity of approximately 400,000…
Chemical manufacturers Hexion Inc. (Columbus, Ohio; www.hexion.com) and Momentive (Waterford, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) announced, separately, that the companies have been responding to cybersecurity incidents. This follows a severe cyber-attack last week targeting Norwegian aluminum manufacturer Norsk Hydro and a December 2018…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) announced that its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A. and Tecnimont Nigeria Ltd. have been awarded a contract for the “Phase 1 Rehabilitation Project” by Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), to carry out a complete integrity check…
INEOS Oxide (London; www.ineos.com) has announced that it is to double the size of its planned ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene oxide derivatives (EOD) facility to be built on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The new plant will produce 1.2 billion…
Sibur (Moscow; www.sibur.com) announced that its Perm facility is 100% ready for commissioning, with the first batch of dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP) coming off the line and shipped to customers as part of the pre-commissioning pilot. “We have successfully completed the…
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com)and PAO Severstal, a steel and mining company, have signed a new long-term contract for the supply of oxygen, nitrogen and argon in Cherepovets, Russia. Air Liquide will invest around 50 million euros in the construction of…