Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a contract for the Centro de Refinación Paraguaná Project. The contract includes an 85,000 barrels per stream day (bpsd) hydrotreating unit, which will be the biggest…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received an award from the Jubail Chemical Industrial Co. to provide technical and project management services for its existing epichlorohydrin plant expansion and a new epichlorohydrin plant at the Jubail, Saudi Arabia…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Imperial Oil Resources for engineering, procurement and construction work on the Kearl oil-sands project in Alberta, Canada. The value of CB&I's work scope is in excess of $900 million,…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has decided to expand its production facilities for hyperpure polysilicon at its Burghausen and Nünchritz sites in Germany. By taking debottlenecking measures within its integrated production network, it will increase annual quantities at each…
Bayer MaterialScience AG (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) plans to invest roughly €100 million in the expansion of the high-tech production plant for MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) at the Bayer Brunsbüttel Industrial Park in Germany. The project is part of the phased…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Inner Mongolia Connell Chemical Industry Co. (Connell) to provide licensing, basic engineering and related training and field services for its grassroots aniline plant in TongLiao, Inner Mongolia Province, China. The…
Solazyme, Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.solazyme.com), a leading renewable-oils and bioproducts company, announced today the execution of both a joint development agreement (JDA) and a letter of intent (LOI) with The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to advance the…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) has been awarded the contract to equip the biggest sugar refinery operating in North America. The Siemens Industry Automation Division will be supplying electrical and control technology to the producing plant, which is currently under…
The Polyurethanes division of Huntsman Corp. (Everberg, Belgium; www.huntsman.com) plans to expand its polyurethane (PU) production capabilities in India. Over the next year, Huntsman will invest $10 million in the construction of a world-class systems house in Pune, India —…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is expanding its global production network for high-tech plastics. The specialty chemical company broke ground today on a new compounding facility in the U.S. Additionally, Lanxess and DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) will double the capacity…