KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says it was selected by PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang, to provide licensing, engineering services and proprietary equipment for a new 2,000 metric tons (m.t.) per day ammonia and 2,750-m.t./d urea plant located in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia.…
Rotterdam is the second largest chemical and petrochemical basin in Europe. This industry has maintained its momentum, despite the crisis, across Western Europe, with dynamic players demonstrating sustained demand for industrial gases. In this context, AirLiquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) will…
Forest BtL Oy (Vantaa, Finland; www.forestbtl.com) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) have signed a license for the use of Gasel technology suite in the Biomass to Liquid (BtL) plant to be constructed in Ajos, near the city of Kemi, Finland.…
An official ceremony took place today with Giovanni Azzone, rector of Politecnico di Milano (www.polimi.it), and Fabrizio Di Amato, CEO and chairman of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (www.mairetecnimont.com) for the signature of a framework agreement for a scientific collaboration between Maire…
Today, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) officially launched its new production plant for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Ulsan site in South Korea. The additional 40,000 metric tons (m.t.) from the second reactor line increases the site’s…
MAN Diesel & Turbo (MDT; Berlin, Germany; www.mandieselturbo.com) is providing the compressor technology for Shell Canada’s Quest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project, located in Alberta, Canada. Quest will be the world’s first commercial-scale CCS project to tackle carbon emissions…
Teijin Chemicals Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.co.jp), the core company of the Teijin Group’s resin and plastic processing business, announced an agreement with SK Chemicals, a South Korean chemical producer, on a business collaboration, including the establishment of a joint venture…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire NuCO2 INC. from Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles, California based private equity firm, for $1.1 billion in cash. The transaction is subject to customary conditions to closing,…
Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) has officially announced its contract award from Gazprom Neft, a subsidiary of Gazprom, one of Russia’s largest oil and gas companies. The $879-million contract covers engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for the gas…
Composite liquid and slurry boiler fuels have been produced from mixtures of various waste materials, such as biomass, coal- and crude-oil-processing residues, wood and other combustible substances, in a collaboration between researchers at the University of Rhode Island (Kingston, R.I.)…