SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by MEG Energy to complete the detailed engineering and provide procurement services for Phase 3A of the Christina Lake Regional Project steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) central processing facility in…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a three-year contract from Nexen Energy ULC for engineering and procurement services for the Long Lake oil-sands facility. Long Lake is an integrated steam-assisted, gravity-drainage (SAGD) and upgrading operation that uses…
Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies (JM Davy; London, U.K. www.davyprotech.com) and The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced that PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical Co., a subsidiary of PetroChina Company Ltd. (PetroChina), China's largest oil-and-gas producer and distributor, has selected LP Oxo…
Rive Technology (Princeton, N.J.; www.rivetechnology.com), a provider of innovative materials-based solutions for catalytic and separations processes in the petroleum refining, chemicals, water and biofuels industries, today announced the closing of a $20 million round of financing from leading energy investors.…
Messer (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com), the largest owner-managed industrial gas specialist worldwide, continues to drive its development in China. In the Paojiang industrial zone located in Shaoxing in Zhejiang province, the company is building a new air separation plant to…
A process that is expected to produce high-octane gasoline from non-food biomass for an average cost of $1.50/gal, depending on feed costs, will be commercialized by Cool Planet Energy Systems (Denver, Colo.; www.coolplanet.com). The company has tested the process in…
Last month, Southwest Research Institute (SWRI; San Antonio, Tex.; www.swri.org) was awarded $1.5 million by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA; Arlington, Va.; www.darpa.mil) for a three-year project to develop alternative technologies for depositing thin films. The project is…
A typical fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCC) generates about 200 tons/d of dry gas — a mixture of off-gases that is burned as refinery fuel. However, about 40 tons of that gas is ethylene, which would have much greater value…
Anti-hydrolysis agent Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.co.jp) has developed a new carbodiimide anti-hydrolysis agent that is said to exhibit “superior” anti-hydrolysis properties to improve the durability of plastics. The agent has the additional advantage of not emitting isocyanate gas,…
JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. (JX_NOE; Tokyo, Japan; www.noe.jx-group.co.jp) has demonstrated enhanced propylene and butenes yields by its high-severity, fluid-catalytic cracking (HS-FCC) technology. In a 3,000-bbl/d semi-commercial plant, which has been operating at the company’s Mizushima Refinery since May…