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Metso Outotec to buils India’s first large-scale Grate-Kiln pellet plant

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed a contract with an Indian customer for the supply of a large-capacity Grate-Kiln pellet plant in the State of Odisha, India.  Typically, the value for this type of an order is in the…

Technip Energies wins EPCC contract for IOCL expansion project

Technip Energies (Paris, France) has been awarded a significant Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) contract by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for its BR9 Expansion Project in Barauni, Bihar, in the Eastern part of India. This EPCC contract covers…

Sulzer Chemtech and Borealis develop new extrusion process for expanded PP

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) have completed the development of an innovative process for the cost-effective extrusion of expanded polypropylene (ePP) beads. Polypropylene (PP) is a highly effective material, offering advanced mechanical properties and…

Linde sells refrigerants business in Austria to TEGA

TEGA GmbH (Würzburg, Germany) has announced the acquisition of Linde plc’s Austrian refrigerant business. Thanks to the many years that TEGA has acted as Linde Austria’s reliable refrigerants supplier, critical stock and supply capacities are already in place for the…

Maire Tecnimont wins EPC contract for Port Harcourt refinery rehabilitation in Nigeria

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. has been awarded a contract by the Federal Executive Council to carry out Rehabilitation works for the Port Harcourt Refinery Co. Ltd., located in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in…

Axens’ technologies for Basrah Refinery Upgrading Project

Part of Iraq’s Ministry of Oil, the state-owned South Refineries Company (SRC) executed the upgrading of its refinery located in Basrah, Iraq by implementing a new refining plant adjacent to the existing refinery facility. The Basrah Upgrading Project is now…

Arlanxeo extends foothold in India with launch of legal entity

Arlanxeo Holding B.V. (Maastricht, the Netherlands) continues its growth in the India sub-continent with the launch of its legal entity Arlanxeo India Private Limited, which has commenced operations from the 1st of January this year. To cement the establishment of…

Plug Power, Chart Industries and Baker Hughes form hydrogen-infrastructure fund

Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.), Chart Industries, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) and Baker Hughes (Houston) announced their intention to become cornerstone investors in the formation of the FiveT Hydrogen Fund, a unique, new clean-hydrogen-only private infrastructure fund dedicated to delivering clean hydrogen…

Lummus Novolen Technology awarded major polypropylene contract

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that its Novolen business has been awarded a polypropylene (PP) contract by Jin Guo Tou (Jinzhou) Petrochemical Co., Ltd. at its petrochemical facility in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, China. "We are grateful to Jin Guo Tou…

Bharat Petroleum acquires OQ’s stake in BORL refinery

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL; Mumbai, India) signed a Sales Purchase Agreement with integrated energy company OQ (Muscat, Oman) for the purchase of BPCL’s entire stake in Bharat Oman Refineries Company Ltd, (BORL), a 7.8 million ton/yr petroleum refinery located…