Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that Stork, Fluor’s maintenance, modification and asset integrity segment, was awarded a five-year contract by Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) for maintenance and sustaining small capital projects at four of its differentiated chemicals…
Honeywell today announced that Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) is using technologies from Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) for the expansion and modernization of its refinery at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on the southeast coast of India. Included in…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $460 million by NefteGazIndustriya, LLC, through project developer China National Chemical Engineering Co., for the Afipsky Oil Refinery Expansion Project in Krasnodar, Russia. The project was included…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), posted its strongest year-over-year gain in nearly seven years. The 5.5 percent increase over this time last year reflects elevated consumer…
Abengoa (Seville, Spain; www.abengoa.com) and private equity firm Trilantic Europe have signed an agreement under which Trilantic will acquire Abengoa’s four bioethanol plants in Spain and France. The deal is valued at €140 million, including the debt assumed by the…
A number of factors need to be considered to properly size and specify a vacuum pump. In some of our previous posts, we've discussed topics like how to determine the right flow rate for your new pump. Considerations such as…
Johnson Controls (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.johnsoncontrols.com) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Scott Safety business to 3M Co. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.3m.com) in a cash transaction valued at approximately $2.0 billion. Scott Safety is a leader…
The preliminary value for the January CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) represents a gain from the last reading of 2016. With that, the annual CEPCI number for 2016 was calculated to be 541.7, using the average…
Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) today announced that the Diamond Green Diesel facility in Norco, La., will expand its annual production capacity of renewable diesel from 10,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) to 18,000 bbl/d, using Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining process…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE; Palo Alto, Calif.) today announced that the companies will collaborate to develop one of the world’s largest supercomputers for industrial chemical research at BASF's Ludwigshafen headquarters this year. Based on…