Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) through its South African joint venture Jacobs Matasis (Proprietary) Ltd., was awarded a two-year agreement with Sasol Group Technology for project management services and specialized resources. Sasol is one of South Africa’s largest investors…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed an agreement to acquire significant parts of Bayer AG’s (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayer.com) seed and non- selective herbicide businesses. Bayer intends to divest these assets in the context of its planned acquisition of Monsanto.…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business has entered the next phase of a major expansion at its organic peroxides facility in Ningbo, China, which will increase production capacity by more than 100% by the third quarter of 2018.…
Wood Goup plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodgroup.com) has been awarded a new multi-million dollar contract by Total, supporting their Lindsey Oil Refinery located in North Killinghome, Lincolnshire, U.K. The five-year contract is to provide onshore maintenance services and includes the option…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced the completion of key debottlenecking projects and product transfers at its global manufacturing facilities to support customer demand and project pipeline growth in the company’s engineered materials business. “These production debottlenecks, completed in the…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) signed a sulfur recovery technology licensor agreement with Paqell, a joint venture between Shell Global Solutions and Paques B.V., for use of its Thiopaq O&G (Oil and Gas) technology in refineries and gas…
Emerson (Saint Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) has acquired GeoFields, Inc., a leading global supplier of software and implementation services for pipeline integrity data collection, management and risk analysis for the oil and gas industry. GeoFields software enables pipeline operators to collect…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently signed a contract with Barrick Goldstrike that extends its long-standing agreement to operate and maintain Barrick’s oxygen plant in Elko, Nevada. In addition to running the Barrick plant, Air Products plans to install…
Oxiteno’s (São Paulo, Brazil; www.oxiteno.com) new alkoxylation plant in Pasadena, Texas approaches its final phase of completion and is scheduled to startup in the beginning of 2018. With 170,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of capacity, the new unit utilizes…
Indorama Ventures Public Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire DuPont Teijin Films (DTF), a leading global producer of Biaxially-oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate (BOPET) and Polyethylene Naphthalate (PEN) films with total film/polymer…