Normal 0 According to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki, Finland; echa.europa.eu) Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) announced on December 7, 2012, that it disagreed with a request to classify formaldehyde as…
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Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, The Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the Licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it), has been awarded two contracts for a new urea plant with Inner Mongolia Erdos Chemical Industry Group Co. in the People’s Republic…
AMEC (London, U.K.; www.amec.com) has been awarded a $528 million (£330 million) Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract by the Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC) for a new petroleum refinery at Al Zour, Kuwait. When completed in 2018, the multi-billion dollar…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) says that its main subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) has been awarded by Etileno XXI Services B.V., an engineering and procurement contract on lump-sum basis for the realization of a 300,000-ton/yr low-density polyethylene (LDPE)…
The Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) was flat in October, following 10 months of gains, according to data from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). In its most recent Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report, ACC…
Sasol (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.com) today announced it will proceed with the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase for an integrated, 96,000 bbl/d gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility and a world-scale ethane cracker with downstream derivatives, at its Lake Charles site…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a new project by Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden). Fluor’s scope of work is to provide project management consulting (PMC) services related to the development of the Umm Wu’al greenfield phosphate project and…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) and its consortium partner Daewoo Nigeria Ltd. have jointly received letter of award to build world’s largest single train urea plant from Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals Ltd. The proposed facility shall be…
NORTH AMERICA 21st Winter Fluorine Conference. American Chemistry Soc., Div. of Fluorine Chemistry (ACS; Washington, D.C.). Phone: 614-447-3776; Web: fluorine.sites.acs.org/21stwfc.htm St. Pete Beach, Fla. January 13–18, 2013 NACE Nuclear Power Plant Coatings Symposium 2013. National Assn. of Corrosion Engineers…