CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced today that Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by Ningbo Haiyue New Material Co. for the license and engineering design of a grassroots propane dehydrogenation unit to be built in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province,…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill: www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries (Orpic) has selected UOP/Foster Wheeler technology to help process heavy oil and expand fuel and petrochemicals production at a petroleum refinery in…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today announced a long-term agreement with Shell Oil Co. (www.shell.com) for the supply of a significant portion of the hydrogen requirements at Shell’s Deer Park, Tex. refinery. The hydrogen supply will commence in mid-2013.…
In March 2010 Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) and Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.de) signed a contract for the construction of a new chlorine plant at the Chempark Krefeld-Uerdingen site. This 20,000-metric-ton per year chlorine demonstration plant has now come…
The chemical industry was one manufacturing sector that reported contraction in July as chemical equities on the S&P 500 slipped by 3.7%, according to data compiled by the American Chemistry Council (Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) in its most recent Chemical and…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has formed a licensing alliance with ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co. (EMRE; www.exxonmobil.com/refiningtechnologies) to offer integrated solutions for the production of lubricant oils and high-quality fuels. The agreement between UOP and…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Emirates Aluminium PJSC (EMAL) have agreed to terms for two contracts with a total value of over EUR 100 million. The deal calls for Outotec to deliver aluminum smelter technology to the second phase…
Qingdao Haijing Chemical(Group) Co. has selected Ineos Technologies (www.ineostechnologies.com) vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) and suspension polyvinyl chloride (S-PVC) technologies for a project at its new site located at Dongjia-kou Pro Port Industrial Zone, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China.…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by China National Coal Group Corp. to provide ammonia technology, process design package and technical services for two 1,660 metric tons per day ammonia synloop units at China Coal Erdos Energy and Chemical…
Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (www.shell.com/globalsolutions) has signed an agreement with the South Refineries Company of Iraq, for the provision of technology licenses to a refinery in Basrah, Southern Iraq. Shell Global Solutions will provide a license for a sulfur…