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Technip Energies awarded project engineering and management contract in Kuwait

Technip Energies (Paris), through its wholly owned subsidiary in the U.K. (Technip E&C Limited), has been awarded a significant contract for Project Engineering and Management Services (PEMS) by Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) for various projects in southern Kuwait.…

Indorama to add PET resin production capacity in Nagpur, India

Indo Rama Synthetics (India) Limited (IRSL), a subsidiary of global petrochemical producer Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand), will spend up to INR 6 billion ($82 million) upgrading equipment and adding capacity at its manufacturing site in Nagpur, India. The…

MilliporeSigma launches synthetic cholesterol production to meet vaccine demand

 To meet the high demand for lipids, a key component of mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics, MilliporeSigma (Burlington, Mass.) has launched a new, high-purity synthetic cholesterol product, nine months ahead of schedule. “Tapping into two decades’ experience of developing and manufacturing high-quality…

Bechtel awarded FEED contract for Nacero’s new natural gas-to-gasoline plant

Nacero (Houston) has awarded Bechtel (Reston, Va.) the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for the first natural gas-to-gasoline manufacturing facility in the United States. Nacero's 115,000 barrel per day plant in Penwell, Texas, near Odessa in the heart of…

Dow, LyondellBasell and NOVA Chemicals launch circular plastics investment fund

Dow, LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and NOVA Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) announced the establishment of the Closed Loop Circular Plastics Fund to invest in scalable recycling technologies, equipment upgrades and infrastructure solutions. The Fund, managed by Closed Loop Partners,…

Johnson Matthey and Plug Power join forces to develop materials for next-generation electrolyzers

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) announced a Memorandum of Understanding with Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.), a leading provider of turnkey green hydrogen solutions. Under the MoU the companies will develop a roadmap to accelerate the joint development of high-performance electrolyzer…

Saint-Gobain inaugurates construction chemicals plant in Malaysia

Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) has inaugurated a new plant for the production of advanced solutions for the construction market in Singapore and Malaysia. The new plant is located in the State of Johor, in the south of Malaysia. The new installation,…

Shell sells stake in Deer Park Refinery to Pemex for $596 million

Shell Oil Company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc (The Hague, the Netherlands), has reached an agreement for the sale of its interest in Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership, a 50-50 joint venture between Shell Oil Company and P.M.I.…

Korea Petrochemical selects Lummus butadiene extraction technology for new plant in Ulsan

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced an award for its butadiene extraction (BDE) technology from Korea Petrochemical Ind. Co., Ltd. (KPIC). The BDE unit will be part of KPIC's Onsan Chemical Plant in Ulsan, Republic of Korea.  "With this award, KPIC is…

Technip Energies awarded two contracts for work on Neste’s Rotterdam projects

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded two contracts by Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) for work on the development of their renewables production platform in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as part of the existing Partnership Agreement between Neste and Technip Energies. The…