KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a license and engineering contract by Ohio Valley Resources LLC to execute a front-end engineering design (FEED) package to develop an EPC proposal for a fertilizer complex. The complex is proposed for Spencer County, Indiana.…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded two contracts, worth a total value of about €50 million, for the front-end engineering design (FEED) services of two petroleum refineries in Kazakhstan. These awards consist of the modernization of two out of the…
As the first multinational company to open a research center in China in 1997, Novo Nordisk A/S (Bagsværd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) now reaffirms its long-term commitment to the country by investing an additional $100 million to expand its state-of-the-art science facilities…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its production capacity in South Korea for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions. The company is constructing a new plant with an annual capacity of 40,000 metric tons (m.t.) at its site in…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) says that its wholly-owned Saudi Arabian subsidiary, JGC Gulf International Co., has been awarded a contract for an aromatics plant project from Sadara Chemical Co. (Sadara), a joint venture between Saudi Arabia Oil Company (Saudi…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that China’s Jiutai Energy (Zhungeer) Co. Ltd. has licensed UOP’s methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology to convert methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. The UOP/Hydro MTO process converts methanol…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, in consortium with Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co., Ltd. (HDEC), of South Korea, has been awarded a contract by Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) services contract by Karnalyte Resources Inc. for the Wynyard Carnallite Project in Canada.…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced today a capacity increase of 70% at its Panoli plant, India, for the production of its high performance polymers KetaSpire polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and AvaSpire polyaryletherketones (PAEK). Panoli is Solvay's largest plant worldwide for these…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) will supply flotation technology for a major copper producer in South America to their concentrator expansion. The site is one of the largest copper producing sites in the world. The contract value is over €30…