Business & Economics
Clifford Johnson is president of the Pipeline Research Council International….
Yeghnazar Hubbard Allard Dalton Way Clifford Johnson, formerly of NACE International, is now president of the Pipeline Research Council International (Falls Church, Va.).…
JGC awarded hydrotreater project in Singapore
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. for the engineering, procurement, and construction of the main process facilities for a diesel hydrotreater project. This project is located at ExxonMobil's Singapore Refinery.…
EPA to set modest pace for GHG standards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) issued its plan for establishing greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution standards under the Clean Air Act in 2011. The agency looked at a number of sectors and is moving forward on GHG…
Outotec: Aluminum project in Saudi Arabia
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotech.com) and Hatch Ltd. (Mississauga, Ont., Canada; www.hatch.ca), an unincorporated joint venture (JV), have been awarded a contract by the Ma'aden and Alcoa JV to provide an Integrated Digestion and Evaporation Facility to what will be…
KBR Acquires Roberts and Schaefer
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has acquired Roberts & Schaefer Co, (Chicago, Ill.), a subsidiary of Elgin National Industries (www.elginindustries.com) and a global leader in engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for bulk material handling and processing systems. The company provides…
Principal Aker Solutions’ P&C to transfer to Jacobs
Aker Solutions (www.akersolutions.com) has entered into a share purchase agreement (SPA) whereby it has agreed to transfer operations within its Process and Construction (P&C) business area to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs; (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com), one of the world’s largest…
SNC-Lavalin/Hatch: New smelter for Rio Tinto Alcan
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal; Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has now received the go-ahead for the implementation of the first phase of Rio Tinto Alcan’s AP60 project in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec. SNC-Lavalin, as a 50:50 joint venture (JV) partner with Hatch Ltd. (Mississauga, Ont., Canada;…
EPA sets first national standard to reduce mercury emissions from gold production
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) is cutting emissions from gold ore processing and production facilities with a new standard that will reduce annual mercury emissions by more than 75% from 2007 levels. This action is one…
Styron: New SSBR production line in Schkopau
Styron (www.styron.com) today announced that the company will expand its SSBR (solution styrene butadiene rubber) capacity with a new production line at Styron’s production facility in Schkopau, Germany. The additional capacity of 50,000 metric tons (m.t.) will allow Styron to…
F-T µ-technology scales up towards the pilot phase
Following the successful operation of a biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant at the biomass gasification facility in Güssing, Austria, the Oxford Catalysts Group's (U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com) F-T (Fischer-Tropsch) microchannel reactor technology is now moving towards a full pilot plant phase. The Oxford…