WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded an engineer, procure and construction management (EPCM) services contract for the expansion of Fortescue Metal Group’s (FMG) Anderson Point port facilities in Port Hedland Western Australia. The project will increase iron…
By way of an internationally attended groundbreaking ceremony, TransGas Development Systems, LLC, has begun construction of America’s largest coal-to-gasoline complex, the Adams Fork Energy plant in Mingo County, W.V. The ceremony was conducted today on the project site at Wharncliffe,…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Tech Talk company of Dubai on the delivery of flash smelting technology for the expansion of National Iranian Copper Industries Co.'s copper smelter located in Sarcheshmeh, Iran. Outotec's scope of delivery includes…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded an engineering and procurement supply contract by China Sun Paper for an integrated chlorine dioxide plant in Laos. Officials did not disclose the contract value. Jacobs is providing basic design…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has started up a new air separation unit to supply industrial gases to ThyssenKrupp’s state-of-the-art carbon- and stainless-steel processing facilities in Mobile, Alabama. The new air separation unit, with a capacity of 400 ton/d, will…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) and the French starch and starch-derivatives company Roquette Frères (Lestrem, France; www.roquette.com) will build a commercial scale plant for the production of bio-based succinic acid, the first non-fossil feedstock derived chemical building block that…
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.;www.bv.com) has been appointed principal contractor for a program of works that will enhance and expand sludge treatment operations at Thames Water’s Basingstoke and Bracknell Sewage Treatment Works. The major upgrades will convert liquid treated…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has acquired Groupe Stavibel, a multidisciplinary consulting engineering firm based in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec. Groupe Stavibel provides engineering consulting expertise in numerous fields of activity in the buildings, infrastructure, transport, mining, and environment sectors. The firm…
Under a contract announced today, Outotec (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) delivers gold recovery technology for the Pokrovskiy hydrometallurgical plant in the Russian Far East (in the Amur region). The contract was signed with JSC Pokrovskiy Mine, which is a part of…
Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced the successful commissioning of a plant for the production of Ecoflex, a biodegradable co-polyester polymer developed by BASF. Production capacity Ecoflex polymer production capacity obtained at the…