Nuberg EPC (New Delhi, India; www.nuberg.in) has been awarded a $53 million turnkey project contract by Middle East Chemicals Company Ltd. (Midchem; Saudi Arabia). The exclusive agreement covers EPC & LSTK services and solutions for a chlor-alkali plant and a…
TechnipFMC has awarded Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) a contract for license and basic engineering for two gas-based ammonia plants for Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Ltd. (HURL). The two fertilizer complexes in Sindri and Barauni will each comprise 2,200…
The engineering and technology group Sener S.A. (Las Arenas, Spain; www.engineeringandconstruction.sener) and Acciona Industrial S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.acciona.com) have achieved another relevant milestone initiating the salt-melting process at the Kathu Solar Park Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant. The molten salt…
Honeywell says that Hubei Sanning Chemical Industry Co. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) Polybed pressure-swing adsorption (PSA) technology to supply high-quality hydrogen at its monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant at Zhijiang in China’s Hubei Province. The Hubei Sanning…
Aveva Plc (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) has signed a partnership agreement with Virsec (San Jose, Calif.; www.virsec.com), whereby Aveva customers gain access to in-memory cyber protection for Industrial Control (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Virsec’s patented technology…
Gasum Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.gasum.com) has awarded Pöyry Oyj. (www.poyry.com) with the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services assignment for Topinoja biogas plant expansion project in Turku, Finland. The work will be carried out between May 2018 and June…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a reimbursable engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Methanex Corp. for providing front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a 5,000 metric ton per day world-scale methanol plant to be located adjacent…
Honeywell announced today that Jizzakh Petroleum JV LLC will use Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) technologies to build a new petroleum refinery capable of processing 5 million ton/yr of crude oil to produce clean-burning gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.…
I first visited Achema some years ago, while I was working in Europe as an R&D project leader for a large, international chemical company. It was my first year living in the Netherlands on an expatriate assignment from the U.S.,…
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