Wood has secured a new contract with SABIC UK Petrochemicals Limited (SABIC), to provide industrial services at the Olefins 6 plant in Wilton, Teesside, UK. The contract, effective immediately, is to provide rope access, scaffolding, insulation and coatings services to…
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced a series of phased, incremental investments to expand its global glycol ethers capacity to meet increasing demand in key end-markets and applications. Once complete, the Company will have nearly doubled its current…
Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com) has started construction of a new demonstration plant that will help advance the production of bio-based mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) made directly from renewable sugars. As MEG is a component for making everyday consumer goods,…
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced its plan to invest in an alkoxylation facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Upon completion, this new facility will support global growth in Dow’s core end-markets related to infrastructure and home and…
Here is the official news from ACHEMA on Thursday, June 14. Highlights include the Chinese Business Forum, a Plenary Lecture from Covestro CEO Markus Steilemann and a look at Rockwell Automation's new automation platform. Read the ACHEMA DAILY here.
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) has announced the appointment of John Gugel as president of Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com). With more than 25 years serving in numerous roles at Honeywell UOP, Gugel is an established leader in the…
Saudi Aramco Technologies Company (www.saudiaramco.com) and Siluria Technologies (San Francisco, Calif.; www.siluria.com) executed a multi-plant technology license for the integration of Siluria’s proprietary technology (natural gas to olefins) with Saudi Aramco’s high-olefins cracking process technology. Siluria’s natural gas-to-olefins technology,…
Phillips 66 (Houston; www.phillips66.com) announced that it is proceeding with an expansion of the company’s Sweeny Hub. This project includes the construction of two 150,000 barrel-per-day (bbl/d) natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionators in Old Ocean, Texas, additional NGL storage capacity,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced that Venture Capital GmbH is to invest in LanzaTech (Chicago, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com). Using special microbes, LanzaTech has developed a technology for gas fermentation that first enables ethanol to be produced from residual gases containing…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has signed an exclusive agreement with Florexx International Investments LLC for the extended basic engineering and subsequent design and delivery of an Advanced Topping Refinery in the U.A.E. Under the exclusive agreement, SNC-Lavalin will carry…