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JGC receives contract for lube-oil blending facility in Indonesia
JGC Indonesia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp), has received a contract from the Indonesian subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell for construction of a lubricating-oil blending facility, also located in Indonesia. The lump-sum turnkey contract calls for…
Outotec to modernize Pasar copper smelter in the Philippines
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Co. (Pasar) for the modernization of Pasar's copper smelter in the Philippines. The contract value exceeds €12 million and it has been booked in…
Praxair to expand Kirtland nitrogen facility
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced today that it has started up a second nitrogen plant at its facility in Kirtland, New Mexico to support growing nitrogen demand in the San Juan basin, which includes southwestern Colorado and northwestern New…
Black & Veatch and Kiewit complete first stage of Jordan Cove LNG facility
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) and Kiewit (Omaha, Neb.; www.kiewit.com) have completed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work and pre-construction planning activities for the Jordan Cove Liquefaction Project. Located in Coos Bay, Ore., the facility will utilize Black…
Technip awarded contract by NCRA for a H2 plant in Kansas
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), in consortium with its construction partner Performance Contractors Inc., was awarded a contract by the National Cooperative Refinery Assn. (NCRA). This contract covers supply of Technip’s proprietary reforming technology, as well as engineering, procurement, installation and…
Siemens delivers wet-air-oxidation system to treat wastewater in Indonesia
Siemens Energy (www.siemens.com) has received a contract from Indonesia to deliver a Zimpro wet-air-oxidation system. The technology will be part of the new Gundih gas processing plant where it will treat wastewater contaminated during the gas production process. The contract…
GranBio and Rhodia sign partnership deal in renewable chemicals
GranBio (São Paulo; www.granbio.com.br), a Brazilian biotechnology company, and Rhodia, a Solvay Group (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) company, have signed an agreement to create a partnership to produce bio n-butanol. Bio n-butanol is made from sugar cane straw and bagasse, the…
Clariant and Tasnee establish masterbatches JV in Saudi Arabia
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and Tasnee (www.tasnee.com), one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Saudi Arabia, today announced the signing of an agreement to establish a masterbatches joint venture (JV) in Saudi Arabia. Within the framework of the agreement, through…
Edwards to acquire Gamma Vacuum
Edwards Group Ltd. (Crawley, U.K.; www.edwardsvacuum.com), a leading manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products and abatement systems and a global provider of related value-added services, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the business and certain assets of Gamma Vacuum,…
Endress+Hauser expands flowmeter production in China
Endress+Hauser (Reinach BL, Switzerland; www.endress.com) is manufacturing more and more flowmeters in Suzhou, China, with the principal growth drivers being water and wastewater industry. Endress+Hauser Flowtec, global leader in flow measurement technology, has reacted by enlarging its plant in the…