Myriant produces bio-succinic acid at commercial scale
Myriant Corp.(Quincy, Mass.; www.myriant.com) announced the successful scaling and commercial production of bio-succinic acid at…
BASF and Sinopec consider further expansion of Nanjing JV
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Sinopec (www.sinopec.com) are considering the extension of their Nanjing…
Eastman to invest $1.6 billion in Kingsport site
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) chairman and CEO Jim Rogers and Tennessee Governor Bill…
Toyo’s Brazil affiliate awarded contract for hydrogen production facilities
Toyo-Setal Empreendimentos Ltda. (TSE), a Brazilian joint venture capitalized by Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba,…
Nucelis inaugurates pilot plant
Today, Nucelis Inc. (San Diego, Calif.; www.nucelis.com) officially commissioned its first, state-of-the-art fermentation facility. The…
Linde to build large ammonia plant in Russia
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has formed a joint venture with chemical company JSC…
Technip awarded contract for a calcination unit for a coker project in Abu Dhabi
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded a significant contract comprising technology, engineering services and…
Air Liquide awarded a major coal-gasification contract in China
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a long-term contract with Fujian Shenyuan New Materials…
WorleyParsons awarded EPCM contract for a methanol plant in Texas
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has signed a contract for the engineering, procurement and…
Ineos Nitriles and Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry Group to create a JV
Ineos Nitriles (www.ineos.com) and Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry Group Corp. (www.bcig.cn) have today signed a…
Outotec to design and deliver concentrator to Russian Copper's Tominsky project
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Russian Copper Co. on the design and…
Black & Veatch completes Cameron LNG boil-off gas reliquefaction facility
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) has completed and successfully commissioned the boil-off gas…
Sulzer Chemtech opens sales and engineering office in Brazil
Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) has opened an office in Brazil to better service…
Axens and HTI to jointly promote ebullated-bed technology for upgrading heavy oil
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has entered into a technology alliance with HTI, a subsidiary of…
Outotec collaborates with Global Oil Shale in the development of a concentration process for oil shale
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Global Oil Shale Group Plc. (London, U.K.; www.globaloilshale.com) have…
Lewa-Nikkiso expands its presence in life sciences
Lewa-Nikkiso America, Inc. (Holliston, Mass.; www.nikkiso.com) has recently acquired Integrated Process Technologies, Inc. (IPT), a…
Technip awarded contract for a PE-expansion project in Canada
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by NOVA Chemicals Corp. the detail engineering, and procurement…
UOP’s C3 Oleflex process selected for propylene plant in the U.S. Gulf Coast
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected to provide technology…
BASF strengthens its enzyme technology footprint
With three separate transactions, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany: www.basf.com) has strengthened its technology footprint in…
Neste Jacobs and Global Oil Shale sign oil shale development and engineering agreement
Technology, engineering and project management company Neste Jacobs Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) and energy company…
Meeting point for the CPI in China: AchemAsia opens in Beijing
With 418 exhibitors, AchemAsia has opened in Beijing on Monday morning. Until Thursday, companies from…
Lanxess opens first production facility for high-performance bladders in Brazil
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany: www.lanxess.com) is focusing on the megatrend of mobility also in Brazil.…
BASF plans production of butanediol from renewable feedstock using Genomatica technology
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to begin production of 1,4-butanediol based on renewable feedstock…
Evonik plans new silica plant in Brazil
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has started basic engineering for a production plant for…
NPN to build $1.5-billion nitrogen-fertilizer plant in North Dakota
Northern Plains Nitrogen (NPN; Grand Forks, N.D.; www.northernplainsnitrogen.com) leaders announced their plans today to build…
Jacobs receives another contract from Minera Chinalco
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Minera Chinalco Peru…
Solvay and Ineos join forces to create a world-class PVC producer
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay) and Ineos AG Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) have signed a Letter…
Foster Wheeler awarded FEED contract for a refinery upgrade in Russia
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and…
Fluor wins contract for Dow U.S. Gulf Coast investments
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that it was awarded a contract by The…
Petroleum Refining Outlook
Increasing production of crude oil from shale deposits in the U.S. and oil sands in…