Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has won a contract from Minera Quadra Chile Limitada (Santiago), a subsidiary of Quadra FNX Mining Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada), to perform work at the company's Sierra Gorda project in Chile. Fluor booked approximately $1…
Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) has purchased ConocoPhillips’ (Houston, Tex.; www.conocophillips.com) leading delayed coking technology, a move that uniquely positions Bechtel for growth in the refining industry. ThruPlus Delayed Coking Technology is a proprietary process for upgrading heavy oil…
Topsoe Fuel Cell (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) is expanding its stack production facilities with kick-off in July 2011. The need for extra production capacity arises as Topsoe Fuel Cell expects demand to exceed currentcapacity already in 2013. The facility will be…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Ma'aden Bauxite Alumina Co., a joint venture (JV) between Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma'aden) and Alcoa in Saudi Arabia, on the delivery of two calciners to the JV’s integrated aluminum complex at…
GE Energy (Atlanta, Ga.; www.ge-energy.com) has announced that Dan Heintzelman, currently CEO of GE Energy Services, has been named CEO of GE Oil & Gas. Heintzelman succeeds Claudi Santiago, who has served as CEO of GE Oil & Gas for…
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kolbeco.com) says that its Chinese subsidiary, Kobelco Compressors Manufacturing (Shanghai) Corp. (KCMS), has increased production capacity at its compressor plant in Shanghai, China. A new manufacturing line in the expanded facility has been completed and…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed on the delivery of concentrator technology for the Petropavlovsk Group in Malomyr gold mine in the Russian Far East. The contract was signed with LLC Malomyrskiu rudnik, which is a part of the…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it), has signed a license agreement with Hengang Huahe Coal Chemical Industry, Ltd. in the Peoples’ Republic of China for a urea granulation…
Crane ChemPharma Flow Solutions (Cincinnati, Ohio), a Crane Co. business (www.craneflowsolutions.com) and a leading provider of highly engineered products for fluid handling applications worldwide, has acquired German valve manufacturer W.T. Armatur GmbH & Co. KG (WTA; Maxdorf, Germany). Founded in…
The M&G Group (Tortona, Italy; www.gruppomg.com), has selected Corpus Christi, Tex., as the location for construction of its previously announced 1-million metric tons (m.t.) per year polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and accompanying 1.2-million m.t./yr purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants. For more…