The Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) was flat in October, following 10 months of gains, according to data from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). In its most recent Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report, ACC…
Sasol (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.com) today announced it will proceed with the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase for an integrated, 96,000 bbl/d gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility and a world-scale ethane cracker with downstream derivatives, at its Lake Charles site…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a new project by Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden). Fluor’s scope of work is to provide project management consulting (PMC) services related to the development of the Umm Wu’al greenfield phosphate project and…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) and its consortium partner Daewoo Nigeria Ltd. have jointly received letter of award to build world’s largest single train urea plant from Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals Ltd. The proposed facility shall be…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that its technology has been selected by Petrobras to process natural gas aboard up to eight floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. UOP Separex membrane systems will be installed…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has received a contract from Japan CCS Co. to construct the core facilities at a carbon-dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology-demonstration project. The site for the demonstration project is located adjacent to an oil refinery…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Viru Keemia Grupp AS (VKG; Kohtla-Järve, Estonia; www.vkg.ee/eng) to provide a license package and services for a sulfur recovery unit (SRU). The SRU is part of VKG’s investment…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by Lanxess Changzhou Co. for a new ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM)…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded two contracts for Syncrude Canada Ltd. (Syncrude) to execute module fabrication and field construction for its Fluid Fine Tailings – Centrifuging Full Scale Plant (FFT-CFSP) in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Syncrude, which operates a surface…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has appointed two engineers to serve as the chairs of two independent Federal Advisory Committees: the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee…