Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) has purchased ConocoPhillips’ (Houston, Tex.; www.conocophillips.com) leading delayed coking technology, a move that uniquely positions Bechtel for growth in the refining industry. ThruPlus Delayed Coking Technology is a proprietary process for upgrading heavy oil…
GE Energy (Atlanta, Ga.; www.ge-energy.com) has announced that Dan Heintzelman, currently CEO of GE Energy Services, has been named CEO of GE Oil & Gas. Heintzelman succeeds Claudi Santiago, who has served as CEO of GE Oil & Gas for…
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kolbeco.com) says that its Chinese subsidiary, Kobelco Compressors Manufacturing (Shanghai) Corp. (KCMS), has increased production capacity at its compressor plant in Shanghai, China. A new manufacturing line in the expanded facility has been completed and…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed on the delivery of concentrator technology for the Petropavlovsk Group in Malomyr gold mine in the Russian Far East. The contract was signed with LLC Malomyrskiu rudnik, which is a part of the…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it), has signed a license agreement with Hengang Huahe Coal Chemical Industry, Ltd. in the Peoples’ Republic of China for a urea granulation…
Crane ChemPharma Flow Solutions (Cincinnati, Ohio), a Crane Co. business (www.craneflowsolutions.com) and a leading provider of highly engineered products for fluid handling applications worldwide, has acquired German valve manufacturer W.T. Armatur GmbH & Co. KG (WTA; Maxdorf, Germany). Founded in…
The M&G Group (Tortona, Italy; www.gruppomg.com), has selected Corpus Christi, Tex., as the location for construction of its previously announced 1-million metric tons (m.t.) per year polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and accompanying 1.2-million m.t./yr purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants. For more…
GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has acquired Nu-Con Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand), a major global supplier of powder handling components, complete powder handling systems and bulk filling lines. With 167 employees, Nu-Con generated some €27 million in revenues during…
Fuel cells from Nedstack (Arnhem, the Netherlands; www.nedstack.com) will soon produce one megawatt (1 MW) of electricity for Solvay’s chlorine plant in the harbor of Antwerp. On July 26th, the hydrogen power plant will be transported to Solvay, in Lillo,…
NexLube Tampa LLC plans to begin construction of a used oil re-refinery and blending plant in Tampa, Florida using Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and Viscolube S.p.A.’s (Pieve Fissiraga, Italy;www.viscolube.it) Revivoil technology. The facility is expected to process 24 million gallons…