HC Petrochem Co. has selected UOP LLC Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com) to provide technology for an expansion of its petrochemicals plant in Daesan, South Korea. HC Petrochem Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Japan’s Cosmo Oil (Tokyo) and Hyundai Oilbank…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com), announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group, working with PetroAlgae Inc., (Melbourne, Fla.; www.petroalgae.com) has completed its initial testing of PetroAlgae's biomass, with encouraging results. The biomass, produced at PetroAlgae's micro-crop farm…
Toyo Engineering Corp. China, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp), has been awarded a contract for an ethanolamine (ETA) production plant to be constructed in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, by Honam Petrochemical Corp. (Korea;…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that it was awarded the Project Hijau Gasoil Phase-1 by Shell Refining Company FOM Malaysia. The project comprises a new 6,000 metric tons (m.t.) per day diesel-processing unit located in Port Dickson, Malaysia.…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) to provide engineering, procurement, construction management and turnaround management services for a capacity expansion of Huntsman's polyether amines manufacturing facility on Jurong…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has decided to establish a wholly-owned world-scale production base for water treatment and paper chemicals in Nanjing, China, with the construction of a 40,000-ton/yr quaternized-cationic monomers plant and a 20,000-ton/yr cationic-polyacrylamides plant. The two BASF…
SOCAR & Turcas Refining has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) hydrotreating technologies for its Aegean Refinery Project at Aliaga province of the Aegean port city of Izmir. The three units under Axens design and fed by the effluents from an…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed a contract with the Henan Jinkai Group, China. The contract includes a sulfur management plant, which will play a key role in clean coal gasification. The plant will be built in connection…
ABB (Baden, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has commissioned automation and power equipment that increases production at Boliden AB’s (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.se) Aitik copper concentrator plant, located near Gällivare in northern Sweden. Aitik is Sweden’s largest mine and has now become a global…
ABB (www.abb.com) will collaborate with Dresser Masoneilan (both Houston; www.dressermasoneilan.com) on an integrated process to monitor, test and manage emergency shutdown valves (ESDV) during all operational conditions, from normal plant operations to abnormal situations. These valves are crucial process elements…