Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has received an LNG heat exchanger order from Petronas for a major LNG project in Malaysia. Air Products’ SplitMR liquefaction process and technology was selected and will be supplied to the Petronas LNG Train…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by the Bahrain Petroleum Company B.S.C. – BAPCO, a lump-sum contract for the engineering, procurement, construction (EPC), pre-commissioning as well as commissioning and start-up assistance for the modification project of the #3 sulfur recovery…
The biotech companies Kultevat (Carlsbad, Calif.; www.kultevat.com) and KeyGene (Wageningen, the Netherlands; www.keygene.com) have entered into collaboration for production of rubber based on the Russian dandelion. This plant has demonstrated potential as a domesticated crop for the U.S. and Europe;…
Veolia Environnement (www.veolia.com) and Total (both Paris, France; www.total.com) today inaugurated the Osilub plant at the Gonfreville l’Orcher site in Normandy, France. Completed after 20 months of construction work, the new plant expands engine-oil-treatment capacity in France and, more broadly,…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Bedlgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that it will build a specialty surfactant plant at an industrial park in Genthin, Germany, close to Berlin. The unit will develop and produce surfactant solutions for Solvay's home & personal care and…
Outotec Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Baotou Steel International Economic & Trading Co. on the design and delivery of an indurating furnace for a new iron-ore pelletizing plant to be built in China. The contract price is not…
Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd. (Shanghai, China), a subsidiary of the Wison Group (www.wison.com), announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) to jointly pursue barge-based natural gas liquefaction facility projects…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) today announced the acquisition of Tri-State Carbonic’s merchant carbon dioxide business in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Tri-State is a producer of high-quality, bulk CO2 gas for industrial use in the…
Pemex Refinación (Huasteca, Mexico; www.ref.pemex.com) has awarded to a consortium formed by Sener (Madrid, Spain; www.sener.es) and the industrial division of the company Obrascón Huarte Lain a turnkey project for the construction of a 35-MW cogeneration plant in its Francisco I…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has been awarded a major contract by Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) to build several plants to generate and purify gases in Jamnagar, India. Part of the Reliance Group, India’s largest private enterprise, RIL specializes…