JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has been awarded a contract by Osaki CoolGen Corp. for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services of the core facilities for an integrated coal-gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) demonstration plant. The lump-sum turnkey contract, which was awarded…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from RSPL Ltd. to provide engineering services for a new greenfield soda ash plant in Gujarat, India. Officials did not disclose the contract value, however noted that the total…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Samsung C&T ECUK Ltd. (Samsung), a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung C&T Korea, to participate in a…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) says that it will be joining Japan's largest-scale mega-solar photovoltaic power generation project to date, located in the seaside industrial district of Oita City, Oita Prefecture. This is the first domestic solar power project JGC…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by the Hebei Haiwei Group for the license and basic engineering design of a grassroots propane dehydrogenation unit to be located in Jingxian, Hebei Province, China. The unit will use…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has increased its global annual capacity for the production of the chemical intermediate PolyTHF (polytetramethylene ether glycol – PTMEG) from 185,000 metric tons to 250,000 metric tons. The company has continuously developed and expanded its…
Yesterday, SGL Group (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglgroup.com) – The Carbon Company – and Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co. (Qinghai Salt Lake; Golmud, Qinghai, China) held a project launch ceremony to celebrate contract signing for the supply of a recovery system which…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for a world-scale grassroots gas-to-chemicals complex in Linhares, Espirito Santo State, southeast Brazil,…
In May 2012 ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) won a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a single-train polypropylene (PP) plant based on LyondellBasell's Spheripol process technology for ZapSibNeftekhim L.L.C, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sibur, in…
As part of the company’s India Growth Plan, Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) is expanding its India operations, which includes adding numerous local professionals by 2020. Moving and expanding its Pune office to address the increased critical human…