Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will supply a gasifier to sustain new gasification technology to Göteborg Energi AB´s innovative project GoBiGas20MW. The value of the order is approximately €30 million, and the order was already included in Energy and Environmental…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a feasibility study contract by Karnalyte Resources Inc. for the Wynyard Carnallite Potash Project in Saskatchewan, Canada. The study will consider initial…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), in a consortium with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., has been awarded by Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) and MISC Berhad a front-end engineering and design contract for a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit. The…
Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.; www.chevron.com) has announced that Chevron Lubricants will commence construction of a lubricants manufacturing facility at the company's Pascagoula refinery. The $1.4-billion Pascagoula Base Oil Project (PBOP) is projected to generate approximately 1,000 jobs over the…
DuPont acquisition Last month, DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced its plans to acquire Danisco, a global enzyme and specialty food ingredients company, for $5.8 billion in cash and assumption of $500 million of Danisco’s net debt. Danisco is…
A novel process for removing hydrogen sulfide from natural gas has been started up at Sinopec Zhongyuan Petroleum Co.’s Puguang natural gas plant in China’s Sichuan Province. The plant, Asia’s largest sour natural-gas treatment facility, can process up to 36-million…
A pilot plant for a process that uses a fluidized bed of sand to gasify coal and other carbonaceous materials will be started up this summer in Kanab, Utah by Viresco Energy LLC (Riverside, Calif.; www.virescoenergy.com). Initially, the plant will…
Current industry syngas output has increased by 26% since 2007 — and by 50% since 2004 — reaching a current gasification capacity of 70,817 MWth of syngas output, according to the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) 2010…
A manufacturing facility for bio-based intermediate and specialty chemicals under construction by Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. (Bolingbrook, Ill.; www.elevance.com) is on track to begin generating products late this year, according to the company. Located in Indonesia, the facility is currently…
Given the state of the still-lagging economy, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the chemical process industries (CPI) are attempting to get more finished product from their existing processes at lower costs. As a result, many are examining their…