KBR Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) today announced its 55% owned subsidiary, M.W. Kellogg Ltd. (MWKL; www.mwkl.co.uk) has been awarded a contract to provide detailed engineering and procurement services for a coker-revamp project at StatoilHydro's Mongstad Refinery, near Bergen, Norway. The…
Following clearance by the competition authorities, Ineos (www.ineos.com) has completed the agreement to combine Ineos Silicas and PQ Corp., the speciality chemical company owned by The Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group will hold a 60% share and Ineos Capital the…
Technip (Paris; www.technip.com), leader in a consortium with Pireco, has been awarded by Tunisian Indian Fertilizers (TIFERT) an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) lump-sum contract for a sulfuric acid unit to be built at the La Skhira industrial site in…
Alstom (www.power.alstom.com) has signed a letter of intent with Saudi Arabian utility, Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), for a €1-billion turnkey contract to build a new 1,200 MW steam power plant in Saudi Arabia. This new plant will be constructed adjacent…
In Rotterdam, Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has just won a long-term contract to supply hydrogen to Neste Oil’s Renewable Diesel plant. To meet the industrial gas requirements of Neste Oil, Air Liquide is investing in a new world-scale hydrogen…
Biazzi SA (Montreaux, Switzerland; www.biazzi.com) has just received an order for a large hydrogenation unit from Belgian Oleon N.V., one of the three majors on the European oleochemical scene. After successful tests in the Biazzi laboratories on specific raw materials,…
Siltronic Samsung Wafer Pte. Ltd. (www.siltronic-samsung-wafer.com), a joint venture (JV) of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (www.samsung.com) and Siltronic AG (www.siltronic.com), today commissioned a new fab in Singapore for the production of 300 mm wafers. After only 18 months of construction,…
Lukoil Neftochim Burgas AD, a subsidiary of the Russian oil major Lukoil (Moscow; www.lukoil.com), has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to design and license technologies to convert Urals blend vacuum residue and gasoil (VGO) at its 165,000-bbl/d petroleum refinery in…
Larox Corp. (Lappeenranta, Finland; www.larox.com) will deliver two gas-tight Pannevis vacuum belt filters to Chempolis Biorefining Park, CBP, 3rd generation biorefining research and demonstration plant in Oulu, Finland. Chempolis Ltd. (www.chempolis.com) is a leading-edge company in the development and delivery…
Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com) signed with Dutch utility Essent a series of contracts worth up to 1-billion euro for the repowering of Claus B and the construction of Claus C, resulting in a 1,280 MW GT26-based combined-cycle (CC) power plant.…