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Linde signs contract for second LAO plant with Alpha-SABLIN process  

Linde Engineering, a division of the Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), is set to build a new Alpha-SABLIN plant for the production of linear alpha olefins (LAO) in Nizhnekamsk, Russian Federation, which upon completion will be operated by Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNH),…

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CB&I awarded paraxylene contract by Reliance Industries  

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Reliance Industries Ltd. for providing technology for the world’s largest aromatics complex to be built at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. "Our role as the exclusive licensor for BP's paraxylene technology…

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MHI receives award for testing CO2-recovery facility for Statoil  

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has been awarded from Statoil (Trondheim, Norway; www.statoil.com) to undertake verification testing for a technology qualification program (TQP) for one of the world's largest carbon-dioxide-capture facilities. The approximately 3,400-ton/d CO2 recovery system…

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Solvay to build bio-based epichlorohydrin plant in China, and more business news

Plant Watch Solvay to build bio-based epichlorohydrin plant in China June 11, 2012 — Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) says its Thai affiliate Vinythai will build an epichlorohydrin plant in Taixing, China. The plant, with an initial capacity of 100,000…

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Wison wins Puerto la Cruz oil refinery in Venezuela  

Wison Engineering Ltd. (Shanghai, China; www.wison.com ), China’s largest private sector chemical engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) service provider, has been officially awarded an EPC contract by PDVSA Petroleo, S.A. (PDVSA), Venezuela’s state-run oil company, at the Puerto la Cruz…

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Kobe Steel to set up compressor companies in Europe and the Middle East  

Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kobelco.com) says it will establish two 100% owned companies in July, one in Europe and the other in the Middle East, to expand the global marketing and servicing of its compressors. Kobelco Machinery Europe GmbH…

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Technip awarded two contracts for a petrochemical complex in Russia  

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by ZapSibNeftekhim LLC (an affiliate of JSC Sibur Holding) two front-end engineering and design contracts for plants located in Tobolsk, in the Tyumen Region of Russia. The first contract concerns a linear low/high density…

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Linde wins contract for ethylene plant in Russia  

The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has received an engineering contract for the licensing and front end engineering design (FEED) of one of the world’s largest ethylene plants in Tobolsk, Western Siberia. The contract was awarded by Russia’s largest petrochemical…

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Pompetravaini to acquire 80% of NSB Gas Processing  

Pompetravaini S.p.A. (Castano, Italy; www.pompetravaini.it) has entered into a share purchase agreement with the holders of 80% of the outstanding shares of NSB Gas Processing AG (NSB; Basel, Switzerland; www.nsbgas.com), a market leading European manufacturer of API liquid ring compressors…

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Dow and DPT license new LP Oxo Technology to Yan’an Energy in China  

Davy Process Technology Ltd. (DPT; London; www.davyprotech.com), a Johnson Matthey company, and The Dow Chemical Company’s (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) Oxygenated Solvents business announced that Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yan’an Energy and Chemical Co., (Yan’an Energy), a project entity invested in…