JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. for the engineering, procurement, and construction of the main process facilities for a diesel hydrotreater project. This project is located at ExxonMobil's Singapore Refinery.…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotech.com) and Hatch Ltd. (Mississauga, Ont., Canada; www.hatch.ca), an unincorporated joint venture (JV), have been awarded a contract by the Ma'aden and Alcoa JV to provide an Integrated Digestion and Evaporation Facility to what will be…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has acquired Roberts & Schaefer Co, (Chicago, Ill.), a subsidiary of Elgin National Industries (www.elginindustries.com) and a global leader in engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for bulk material handling and processing systems. The company provides…
Aker Solutions (www.akersolutions.com) has entered into a share purchase agreement (SPA) whereby it has agreed to transfer operations within its Process and Construction (P&C) business area to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs; (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com), one of the world’s largest…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal; Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has now received the go-ahead for the implementation of the first phase of Rio Tinto Alcan’s AP60 project in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec. SNC-Lavalin, as a 50:50 joint venture (JV) partner with Hatch Ltd. (Mississauga, Ont., Canada;…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) is cutting emissions from gold ore processing and production facilities with a new standard that will reduce annual mercury emissions by more than 75% from 2007 levels. This action is one…
Blast furnace 2 at the ThyssenKrupp CSA steel mill in Santa Cruz/Rio de Janeiro state was fired up on schedule and without problems on Thursday evening, December 16, 2010 – five months after blast furnace 1, which is now producing…
JGC Corp. (Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) today announced that it will be selling its 44.94% share interest in M.W. Kellogg Ltd. (MWKL; Greenford, Middlesex, U.K.; www.mwkl.co.uk) to KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com). MWKL is an affiliate of both companies. Following the transaction, MWKL will become…
Styron (www.styron.com) today announced that the company will expand its SSBR (solution styrene butadiene rubber) capacity with a new production line at Styron’s production facility in Schkopau, Germany. The additional capacity of 50,000 metric tons (m.t.) will allow Styron to…
Following the successful operation of a biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant at the biomass gasification facility in Güssing, Austria, the Oxford Catalysts Group's (U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com) F-T (Fischer-Tropsch) microchannel reactor technology is now moving towards a full pilot plant phase. The Oxford…