Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.; www.chevron.com) has announced that Chevron Lubricants will commence construction of a lubricants manufacturing facility at the company's Pascagoula refinery. The $1.4-billion Pascagoula Base Oil Project (PBOP) is projected to generate approximately 1,000 jobs over the…
Current industry syngas output has increased by 26% since 2007 — and by 50% since 2004 — reaching a current gasification capacity of 70,817 MWth of syngas output, according to the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) 2010…
Given the state of the still-lagging economy, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the chemical process industries (CPI) are attempting to get more finished product from their existing processes at lower costs. As a result, many are examining their…
Eurecat to build a new catalyst-processing facility in India January 4, 2011 — Eurecat SA (La Voulte, France; www.eurecat.com), a joint venture of IFP Investissements and Albemarle Corp., is constructing a new, catalyst processing plant in India. WIth an expected…
Mustang Engineering L-P- (Houston; www.mustangeng.com), a Wood Group Company, and Sime Darby’s Energy & Utilities Division have entered into a joint venture (JV) to form a new company called Mustang Sime Darby. The new company will provide project management, design and…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will supply Porvoon Energia with a biomass boiler plant for combined heat and power production (CHP) in the township of Tolkkinen, Finland. The boiler plant will be delivered by the Metso-Wärtsilä joint venture MW Power…
A new steam pipeline installed as part of a joint project between AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) and Dutch waste-processing company Twence B.V. (Hengelo; www.twence.nl) is expected to deliver annual energy savings for the salt production equivalent to providing gas…
CB&I (Houston; www.cbi.com) announced today that Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by Formosa Chemicals and Fibre Corporation (FCFC) for the license and engineering design of a grassroots cumene and phenol plant to be built in Ningbo, China. This…
The Technology business unit of KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group, Co. (Tianji) to provide licensing and related engineering services for a grassroots aniline plant to be located in Lucheng, Shanxi,…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has signaled its strategic intent to accelerate growth by investing close to €90 million in a new facility being built in Brazil. The plant, operated by the company's Pulp and Paper Chemicals business, Eka Chemicals,…