UOP LLC (Dews Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell Company (www.honeywell.com), announced today that its technology has been selected for a new transportation fuel refinery to be built in Iraq. The State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), under the Ministry of…
Torresol Energy S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.torresolenergy.com), a joint venture (JV) between Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas (Madrid, Spain; www.sener.es) and Masdar (Abu Dhabi; www.masdaruae.com), announced today the commissioning of its flagship 19.9-MW Gemasolar concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Seville, Spain.…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Goteborg Energi AB for the GoBiGas-project, a 20-MW biomass gasification and methanation project in Goteborg, Sweden. Officials estimate the contract value at $19 million (€13.7 million). Jacobs is…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Air Liquide Arabia (www.airliquide.com) have signed a new long-term nitrogen supply agreement for Saudi Aramco’s operations in Qurayyah, in the Eastern Province. This nitrogen will be used by Saudi Aramco in the processing…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has commissioned its first DynaPeaQ energy storage installation for U.K. Power Networks at a site north of Hemsby in Norfolk, England. DynaPeaQ was recently launched by ABB and is part of its family of FACTS (flexible…
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kobelco.com) has acquired a 44.3% equity share in Wuxi Compressor Co., Ltd., based in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China, after reaching agreement with parent company Wuxi Victor Group Co., Ltd. The investment will enable Kobe Steel to…
Sasol (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.com) has selected S & B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. (Houston; www.sbec.com) as its engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) contractor to construct its recently announced ethylene Tetramerization plant at Lake Charles, La. The pioneering plant…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will invest in a dispersions plant in Durban, South Africa. The new plant will produce acrylic dispersions mainly for the coatings and construction industry. The facility will benefit from local availability of raw materials and…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Karlsruhe, Germany; www.thermoscientific.com) today announced a collaboration with integrated process technology provider Glatt Process Technology GmbH (Binzen, Germany; www.glatt.com) to deliver continuous twin-screw granulation and drying solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. Together, the two companies provide…
The M&G Group (Tortona, Italy; www.gruppomg.com), a major producer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), has announced that it will build a next-generation-technology PET plant in the U.S., co-located and fully integrated with a new PTA (purified terephthalic acid) plant at the…