SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal; Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has acquired Itansuca Proyectos de Ingenieria S.A., an engineering firm of 1,000 professionals and administrative staff in the energy sector based in Bogota, Colombia. Since 1989, Itansuca has been offering energy consulting, project management, electromechanical…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is expanding its activities in Latin America. The specialty chemicals company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Rhein Chemie (Mannheim, Germany) has acquired Argentina-based Darmex S.A. (Buenos Aires) — a leading manufacturer of release agents and curing bladders for…
Samsung Engineering (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) has signed a $411-million contract for a chlor-alkali plant with Dow-Mitsui Chlor-Alkali LLC, a joint-venture comprised of The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsui.co.jp/en). The chlor-alkali plant…
Siemens Energy (Orlando, Fla.; www.siemens.com/energy) has received an order for the supply of an SPPA-T3000 instrumentation & controls (I&C) system and two steam turbine-generators for the Ivanpah solar-thermal power plant located in the Mojave desert in California. The purchaser is…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) has entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Danisco, a global enzyme and specialty food ingredients company, for $5.8 billion in cash and assumption of $500 million of Danisco’s net debt. Upon closing, this…
The Standard & Poors Chemicals Index was up 19.1% from the beginning of 2010, compared to 12.9% growth in the S&P 500 Index, reports the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). In December 2010 alone, the S&P index for…
WorleyParsons (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has signed a Master Service Agreement (MSA) with MEG Energy Corp. (Calgary, Alberta; www.megenergy.com) supporting the MEG Energy Christina Lake SAGD (steam-assisted gravity drainage) Facility. WorleyParsons’ scope of work will include engineering and procurement services…
JGC Corp. Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has received Award Notification to build the gas processing facilities for the Barzan Onshore Project in Qatar. The Barzan Project is managed by RasGas Co., which is a Qatari company owned by Qatar Petroleum (70%)…
After 35 years of collaboration with RWE regarding the High-Temperature Winkler (HTW) process, Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) has now taken over the technology developed by RWE Power and its predecessors, thus making Uhde the sole proprietor of the HTW…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it.), has acquired the Italian engineering company Noy Engineering from Tecnimont. The agreement has become effective on January 1, 2011. With this acquisition…