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High-technology for Africa’s largest petroleum refinery

With a double-digit million dollar order volume, MAN Diesel & Turbo (Oberhausen, Germany; www.mandieselturbo.com) will deliver two compressor trains to Nigerian Dangote Oil Refining Co., to be employed in the company’s petroleum refinery in the capital of Lagos. Dangote Corp.…

BASF to invest in new plastic-additives plant in Shanghai

As announced in November 2016, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing more than €200 million globally to increase its production network for plastic additives. An important step is an investment to build a new plastic-additives plant at its Caojing…

Wood Group agrees to takeover of Amec Foster Wheeler

John Wood Group PLC (Wood Group; Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodgroup.com) and Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) have announced that Wood Group will take over Amec Foster Wheeler. The boards of both companies reached agreement on the terms of a recommended…

LyondellBasell HDPE process technology selected for new production unit in China

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that Shandong Yuhuang Shengshi Chemical Inc. Ltd, has selected the LyondellBasell Hostalen ACP polyethylene process technology for a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) unit to be constructed in their petrochemical complex at Heze in Shandong province.…

SNC-Lavalin wins EPC contract for ammonia plant in Oman

SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Salalah Methanol Co. LLC (SMC) for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of an anhydrous liquid ammonia plant, including its utilities and off-site infrastructure, in the city of Salalah,…

Amec Foster Wheeler wins EPC contract from Eni for steam-reforming plant at Gela refinery

Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has been awarded a lump-sum turn-key contract in excess of €50 million by Eni SpA for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a new steam reforming plant for hydrogen production to be built…

GE Water acquired by Suez and CDPQ for $3.4 billion

SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez-environnement.fr) and Canadian institutional fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) announced that they have entered into an agreement with General Electric Co. (www.ge.com) to acquire its Water & Process Technologies business (GE Water;…

ExxonMobil to invest $20 billion in capacity expansions on U.S. Gulf Coast

Exxon Mobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) is expanding its manufacturing capacity along the U.S. Gulf Coast through planned investments of $20 billion over a 10-year period, Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer, said Monday. The projects, at 11 proposed…

GE and Caithness annouce deal to build combined-cycle power plants

GE Power (Schenectady, N.Y.; www.ge.com) and Caithness Energy (New York, N.Y.; www.caithnessenergy.com) today announced an exclusive agreement with the intent to pursue development of multiple new HA combined-cycle power plants in the United States. The equipment package that GE will…

Messer opens its largest CO2-recovery plant in China

Messer Group (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) opened its biggest CO2 recovery plant on the globe in Nanjing, China. This plant makes Messer China’s largest CO2 provider, according to the company. The plant has a capacity of 150,000 metric tone per…