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KBR awarded contract for restarted Kima Fertilizer Project in Egypt

  KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a new contract for proprietary equipment and has also restarted work under the contract awarded by Tecnimont S.p.A. (part of Maire Tecnimont Group) previously announced in December 2011 for the license and…

KBR JV awarded project-management contract for Baku Oil Refinery modernization

  KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) today announced its Socar-KBR LLC joint venture (JV) was awarded a significant project management consultancy (PMC) contract for the Heydar Aliyev Baku oil refinery modernization project in Azerbaijan. This award marks the first major award…

Amec Foster Wheeler awarded multiple Algerian refinery contracts

  Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) announces today that it has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Sonatrach SPA for three new refineries located in Biskra, Tiaret and Hassi Messaoud, Algeria. The three refineries will each…

Johnson Matthey and Toyo awarded contracts for G2X methanol plant

G2X Energy, Inc. (Houston; www.g2xenergy.com) announced that they have entered into license and engineering contracts with Johnson Matthey (London, U.K.; www.matthey.com) for their previously announced world-scale methanol production facility located in Lake Charles, La. Johnson Matthey will supply the technology…

Total inaugurates special fluids facility in Bayport, Tex.

Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com) has officially inaugurated the production of the company’s new high-purity special fluids facility in Bayport, Tex. Today’s ribbon-cutting represents the completion of a $100-million investment by the global integrated energy producer and leading international oil-and-gas organization.…

DuPont Clean Technologies to provide alkylation process technology in Dalian

DuPont Clean Technologies (Overland Park, Kan. www.cleantechnologies.dupont.com) is pleased to announce that Hengli Petrochemical Co. (Hengli), based in Dalian, China, has awarded DuPont a contract to supply the alkylation and spent-acid regeneration (SAR) technologies for the new grassroots refinery in…

Covestro and Nanodax reach agreement on development collaboration for high-strength polycarbonates

  Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) and Nanodax Co. (Tokyo, Japan) have signed an agreement on the development of innovative polycarbonate composites reinforced with glass wool. Nanodax has developed a special process for the manufacture of these products. Conventionally, glass…

Global CPRI rose in January, ACC report says

The Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) rose 0.5% in January on a three-month-moving-average (3MMA) basis, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economics Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The January rise follows similar…

UCore Rare Metals completes construction for pilot plant in Salt Lake City

Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada; www.ucore.com) has announced the completion of construction of all Molecular Recognition Technology (MRT) superstructure, processing architecture, automation systems, and initial water testing of the SuperLig-One rare-earth separation pilot plant by IBC Advanced…

Air Products to provide membrane separators for Shenhua Ningxia Coal-to-Liquids Project

  Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) Prism Membranes division in Saint Louis, Missouri, has received a significant order to provide a large quantity of membrane separators to the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base in Ningxia, China, for use…