Chemical Engineering
Saipem awarded $520-million contract for ADNOC Sour Gas expansion
Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) has received a Letter of Award from ADNOC Sour Gas, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) , for a new contract related to the Optimum Shah Gas Expansion (OSGE) &…
Aemetis awards contracts to Worley, Koch Project Solutions for ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable-fuels plant
Aemetis, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.) has awarded an engineering services contract to Worley (North Sydney, Australia) for the Aemetis ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable jet and diesel plant in Riverbank, California. The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat…
Messer to build large-scale ASU in central Texas
Messer Americas, a part of Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany), announced plans to build a large-scale air separation unit (ASU) to manufacture liquid atmospheric products in central Texas. The new air separation plant will produce medical and industrial gases…
Kemira completes emulsions and bio-acrylamide expansion in Alabama
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has completed the installation of new state-of-the art production units for emulsion polymers and bio-acrylamide monomer at its manufacturing site in Mobile, Alabama. Production has started and the facility is expected to be fully operational during…
Axens and Sulzer join forces to license advanced FCC naphtha-processing technology
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Sulzer Chemtech’s (Winterthur, Switzerland) GTC Technology business, a global licensor of refinery and petrochemical process technologies, have formed an alliance to license an advanced process for FCC (fluid catalytic cracking) naphtha processing. The combined offering is…
Saipem and Technip Energies awarded contracts for design of Norway’s Barents Blue ammonia plant
Horisont Energi (Sandnes, Norway) announced that it has selected Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Technip Energies B.V. (Paris) for two independent concept studies for the full conceptual design of the Barents Blue carbon-neutral ammonia plant in Hammerfest, northern…
Sinopec starts up two Dupont alkylation units
DuPont Clean Technologies has announced the successful startup of the STRATCO alkylation units at the Zhongke Refinery and Petrochemical Company LTC refinery in Zhejiang, China and the Sinopec Shanghai Company (SPC) refinery in Jinshan, Shanghai, China. Both alkylation units at…
Orlen Group to launch international hydrogen program
The ORLEN Group (Płock, Poland) is launching Hydrogen Eagle, an investment program to develop an international chain of hydrogen hubs powered by renewable energy sources and build innovative facilities to convert municipal waste into zero- and low-emission hydrogen. The project…
McDermott wins two EPCC contracts for IOCL refinery projects
McDermott International, Ltd. (Houston) has received two separate engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract awards from IndianOil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL; New Delhi) for the Haldia Refinery and the Barauni Refinery. The first award is an EPCC contract for a…
Schlumberger and Panasonic Energy collaborate on new lithium-production process
Schlumberger New Energy and Panasonic Energy of North America, a division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, announced that they have entered into a collaboration agreement for the validation and optimization of the new lithium extraction and production process to…