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KBR lands contracts in Iraq

KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded two contracts by the Republic of Iraq Ministry of Oil through the South Refineries Company. KBR will provide licensing and basic engineering services for the construction of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) and solvent…

Shell and Cosan sign JV for ethanol production

A $12-billion joint venture (JV) between Shell International Petroleum Co. (Shell; The Hague, The Netherlands; www.shell.com) and Cosan S.A. (Cosan; Brazil; www.cosan.com.br/) moved closer to reality today when the two companies signed binding agreements. The proposed JV, which still requires…

Aveva releases AVEVA NET Portal 4.5

Aveva Inc. (Houston; www.aveva.com) has released AVEVA NET Portal 4.5, a highly configurable user interface designed specifically to improve the accessibility of objects and documents used in complex engineering projects and throughout the long-term operation of such assets. The powerful new…

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Haldor Topsoe & CoaLogix: Regenerated SCR catalyst

Haldor Topsoe Inc. (Houston; www.topsoe.com) and CoaLogix Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.coalogix.com) have developed a closer collaboration since 2009, which has now been executed into a signed agreement to provide additional value in connection with SCR catalyst supply to the power-generation…

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Aruba selects VWS firms for desalination plant

Two Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS; Saint Maurice, France; www.veoliawaterst.com) companies — N.A. Water Systems (www.nawatersystems.com) and OTV (www.otv.fr) — have been awarded a contract to design and build a 24,000 m3/d (6.34-million gal/d) desalination facility on the island…

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SGL Group expands isostatic graphite capacity

SGL Group (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglcarbon.com) will invest within the next three years approximately €75 million into the capacity expansion of isostatic graphite to support the global growth of its customers in the solar energy, light emitting diodes (LED) and semiconductor industries.…

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SNC-Lavalin: Contract in Alberta’s oil sands

SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering and procurement (EP) contract by Grizzly Oil Sands ULC for its new Algar Lake Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) facility located near Fort McMurray in north-eastern Alberta. The project…

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Siemens: Order from the Steel Authority of India

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies (Linz, Austria, www.siemens.com/metals) has received an order from the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) to supply an RH vacuum degassing plant to the Rourkela Steel Works in the state of Orissa. The new plant will allow high-quality…

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FT microchannel demonstration is up and running

The biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant, jointly operated by the Oxford Catalysts Group (Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com) and the Portuguese incorporated holding company SGC Energia (SGCE, www.sgc.pt), at the biomass gasification facility in Güssing, Austria, is now up and running. The plant…

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BASF to build dispersions plant in Huizhou

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will invest in a dispersions plant in Daya Bay Petrochemical Industrial Park in Huizhou, China. With an annual capacity of 100,000 tons, the new plant will produce XSB dispersions for the paper industry and acrylic dispersions…