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Technip awarded contract for a sulfur-recovery-unit modification in Bahrain
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by the Bahrain Petroleum Company B.S.C. – BAPCO, a lump-sum contract for the engineering, procurement, construction (EPC), pre-commissioning as well as commissioning and start-up assistance for the modification project of the #3 sulfur recovery…
Nevada deploys first U.S. commercial, grid-connected enhanced geothermal system
As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department (Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) today recognized the nation’s first commercial enhanced geothermal system (EGS) project to supply electricity to the grid. Based in Churchill County, Nevada, Ormat Technologies’ Desert…
KeyGene and Kultevat to develop commercial rubber production from Russian dandelion
The biotech companies Kultevat (Carlsbad, Calif.; www.kultevat.com) and KeyGene (Wageningen, the Netherlands; www.keygene.com) have entered into collaboration for production of rubber based on the Russian dandelion. This plant has demonstrated potential as a domesticated crop for the U.S. and Europe;…
Solvay plans to build a specialty surfactant plant in Germany
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Bedlgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that it will build a specialty surfactant plant at an industrial park in Genthin, Germany, close to Berlin. The unit will develop and produce surfactant solutions for Solvay's home & personal care and…
Veolia Environnement and Total inaugurate Osilub recycling plant in Normandy
Veolia Environnement (www.veolia.com) and Total (both Paris, France; www.total.com) today inaugurated the Osilub plant at the Gonfreville l’Orcher site in Normandy, France. Completed after 20 months of construction work, the new plant expands engine-oil-treatment capacity in France and, more broadly,…
Outotec to deliver technology for an iron-ore pelletizing plant in China
Outotec Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Baotou Steel International Economic & Trading Co. on the design and delivery of an indurating furnace for a new iron-ore pelletizing plant to be built in China. The contract price is not…
Wison and Black & Veatch to jointly pursue offshore LNG projects
Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd. (Shanghai, China), a subsidiary of the Wison Group (www.wison.com), announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) to jointly pursue barge-based natural gas liquefaction facility projects…
Praxair acquires Tri-State Carbonic’s merchant CO2 Business
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) today announced the acquisition of Tri-State Carbonic’s merchant carbon dioxide business in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Tri-State is a producer of high-quality, bulk CO2 gas for industrial use in the…
Sener and Obrascón Huarte Lain to build a cogeneration plant in México
Pemex Refinación (Huasteca, Mexico; www.ref.pemex.com) has awarded to a consortium formed by Sener (Madrid, Spain; www.sener.es) and the industrial division of the company Obrascón Huarte Lain a turnkey project for the construction of a 35-MW cogeneration plant in its Francisco I…
Linde to build major plant complex for Reliance in India
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has been awarded a major contract by Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) to build several plants to generate and purify gases in Jamnagar, India. Part of the Reliance Group, India’s largest private enterprise, RIL specializes…