Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and Sonatrach (Algiers, Algeria; www.sonatrach.com) have signed a shareholder agreement to create a joint venture known as STEP (Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymères). STEP will be responsible for carrying out a joint petrochemical project in Arzew,…
Wison Engineering Services Co. Ltd. (Shanghai; www.wison-engineering.com) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Wison Engineering Ltd. (Saudi Branch) has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, worth approximately $150 million, with Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) for a Utilities…
Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC (Houston, www.shell.us) today announced the successful installation of its quench tower – the largest piece of equipment at its Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, currently under construction. The heavy lift of the quench tower, undertaken October 7, marked…
Perstorp (Malmö, Sweden; www.perstorp.com) announced that it will substantially expand the production capacity of its non-phthalate polyester plasticizer Pevalen in 2019. To accomplish this Perstorp has entered into a long-term production agreement with Italian company Alcoplast Srl. The new partnership…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) accelerates its investment activities to capitalize on the strong methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) market growth. Today, the Supervisory Board of Covestro has approved an investment of around €1.5 billion to build a new world-scale MDI…
Dürr Systems AG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany; www.durr.com) has completed the previously announced acquisition of the industrial environmental technology business of the U.S. company, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W; Barberton, Ohio; www.babcock.com) as of October, 5th, 2018. The transaction creates one…
Amin H. Nasser, president and CEO of Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), signed today in Dhahran the joint development agreement for the front-end engineering and design (FEED)…
A much-anticipated report by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (www.ipcc.org) shows there is still a long way to go if we want to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C and prevent dangerous warming. But the report also…
Wood plc. (London, U.K.; www.woodplc.com) has secured a new multi-million-dollar contract with Duqm Refinery and Petrochemicals Industries to provide two Terrace Wall double-fired delayed coker heaters at its petroleum refinery on the south eastern coast of the Sultanate of Oman.…
Nalco Water, the water-management business of Ecolab Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.ecolab.com), has acquired ChemStaff, a privately held provider of strategic consulting and engineering solutions for the global power industry. The acquisition further strengthens Nalco Water’s solutions and services to…