SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Compañía Minera del Pacífico S.A. (CAP Minería), to provide overall management, detailed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for a thickened mine tailings disposal system at the Cerro…
Ineos Europe AG (www.ineos.com) says it has completed supply and infrastructure agreements that will secure a significant volume of ethane feedstock from the U.S., for use in its European cracker complexes. The company has agreed to a long term deal…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a license and engineering contract by Ohio Valley Resources LLC to execute a front-end engineering design (FEED) package to develop an EPC proposal for a fertilizer complex. The complex is proposed for Spencer County, Indiana.…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded two contracts, worth a total value of about €50 million, for the front-end engineering design (FEED) services of two petroleum refineries in Kazakhstan. These awards consist of the modernization of two out of the…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) today released its monthly Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator derived from a composite index of chemical industry activity. The September CAB showed a 0.3% growth over the previous month.…
As the first multinational company to open a research center in China in 1997, Novo Nordisk A/S (Bagsværd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) now reaffirms its long-term commitment to the country by investing an additional $100 million to expand its state-of-the-art science facilities…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its production capacity in South Korea for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions. The company is constructing a new plant with an annual capacity of 40,000 metric tons (m.t.) at its site in…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) says that its wholly-owned Saudi Arabian subsidiary, JGC Gulf International Co., has been awarded a contract for an aromatics plant project from Sadara Chemical Co. (Sadara), a joint venture between Saudi Arabia Oil Company (Saudi…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that China’s Jiutai Energy (Zhungeer) Co. Ltd. has licensed UOP’s methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology to convert methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. The UOP/Hydro MTO process converts methanol…
The Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) rose 0.1% in August, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). While the Global CPRI gain continues a string of gains for the past several months, the pace has…