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ItN Nanovation receives two big orders from Saudi Arabia
Nanostart AG’s ItN Nanovation AG (Saarbrücken, Germany; www.itn-nanovation.de) has bindingly received via its local agent Juffali Chemical Products Co. two big orders for ItN flat membrane filters (CFM Systems) for a total of more than €4,5 million. The orders, which…
Altana acquires specialty coatings business from Henkel
The specialty chemicals group Altana (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has acquired the specialty coatings business of Henkel. The products are sold under the brand names MiraFoil and Miracure and are mainly supplied to the packaging industry in North America. The business…
One of the world’s largest ammonia plants to be built in Saudi Arabia
The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) will be utilizing ammonia technology from ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-uhde.de) in its new ammonia plant Ma’aden II, being built near the port of Ras al Khair in the Arabian Gulf. As a…
SNC-Lavalin awarded contract for MEG Energy’s Christina Lake project
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 receives contract from Nexen Energy
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…
Dow and Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies License LP Oxo Technology to PetroChina
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 raises $20 million in Series D Financing
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 continues to grow in China
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…
This FCC process shown to enhance olefins production
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…
Reduce air consumption from AODD pumps with this technology
New technology developed for air-operated, double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps can reduce consumption of compressed air by up to 60% without electronic components, while maintaining the same flowrates. The reduced air consumption translates directly to lower energy usage. Developed by Wilden Pump…