Plant Watch BASF building production plant in Poland for emissions catalysts November 6, 2012 — BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing approximately €90 million in the first step to build a mobile emissions-catalysts production facility in Sroda Slaska, near…
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…
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UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that its technology has been selected by Petrobras to process natural gas aboard up to eight floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. UOP Separex membrane systems will be installed…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has received a contract from Japan CCS Co. to construct the core facilities at a carbon-dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology-demonstration project. The site for the demonstration project is located adjacent to an oil refinery…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Viru Keemia Grupp AS (VKG; Kohtla-Järve, Estonia; www.vkg.ee/eng) to provide a license package and services for a sulfur recovery unit (SRU). The SRU is part of VKG’s investment…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by Lanxess Changzhou Co. for a new ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM)…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded two contracts for Syncrude Canada Ltd. (Syncrude) to execute module fabrication and field construction for its Fluid Fine Tailings – Centrifuging Full Scale Plant (FFT-CFSP) in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Syncrude, which operates a surface…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has appointed two engineers to serve as the chairs of two independent Federal Advisory Committees: the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee…
Normal 0 The 113th Congress will see several changes in leadership of Congressional Committees that have jurisdiction over some of the chemical industry’s top legislative issues, according to the Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates (SOCMA). Senator James Inhofe (R-OK)…