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CSB to hold a public hearing on the Macondo blowout and explosion in Gulf of Mexico
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB; www.csb.gov) has announced a public hearing to support its continued analysis of effective safety-performance indicators and to release preliminary findings into the agency’s investigation of the Macondo well blowout, explosion and fire in the…
BASF to build butadiene extraction plant in Antwerp
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to build a butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant will have an annual production capacity of 155,000 metric tons (m.t.) and is scheduled to start up during 2014.…
Technip awarded contract for one of the largest ethylene crackers in the world
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) a license, supply of basic engineering package and an engineering and procurement services contract for the Refinery Off-Gas Cracker (ROGC) plant. This contract is part of the expansion project…
Linde signs contract for second LAO plant with Alpha-SABLIN process
Linde Engineering, a division of the Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), is set to build a new Alpha-SABLIN plant for the production of linear alpha olefins (LAO) in Nizhnekamsk, Russian Federation, which upon completion will be operated by Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNH),…
Microchannel biomass-to-liquids technology selected for jet fuel project
Microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology developed by the Oxford Catalysts Group (Abingdon, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com) has been selected for use in a biomass-to-liquids (BTL) project under development in the U.K. by the U.S.-based company, Solena Fuels Corp. (Washington, D.C.; www.solenafuels.com). Solena was…
CB&I awarded paraxylene contract by Reliance Industries
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Reliance Industries Ltd. for providing technology for the world’s largest aromatics complex to be built at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. "Our role as the exclusive licensor for BP's paraxylene technology…
MHI receives award for testing CO2-recovery facility for Statoil
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has been awarded from Statoil (Trondheim, Norway; www.statoil.com) to undertake verification testing for a technology qualification program (TQP) for one of the world's largest carbon-dioxide-capture facilities. The approximately 3,400-ton/d CO2 recovery system…
Dyadic Netherlands to develop enzymes for European-funded research consortium
Dyadic International, Inc. (Jupiter, Fla.; www.dyadic.com), a global biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of enzymes and other proteins for the industrial enzyme, bioenergy, and biopharmaceutical industries, has announced that its research and development center in…
Strong gains in capital spending expected for U.S., ACC mid-year report says
Strong gains in capital spending by U.S. chemical manufacturers are expected during the next several years, according to the Mid-Year 2012 Situation and Outlook report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Capital spending for U.S. chemistry will…
Ineos Technologies has been selected by Sibur for four PE units
Ineos Technologies (Lyndhurst, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene G and Innovene S processes for the manufacture of linear low density and high density polyethylene (PE) products to the ZapSibNeftekhim production complex of Sibur in Tobolsk, Russia. The two 400,000…