Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) announced today that Italian and Greek subsidiaries of its Continental Europe operating unit, part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, have been awarded engineering, procurement and construction management contracts by Hellenic Petroleum S.A.…
Specialty chemicals supplier Cognis (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com) today announced the sale of its 50-% stake in the Cognis Oleochemicals joint venture (JV) to PTT Chemical International Private Ltd. (PTT Chemical International), a Singapore based wholly owned subsidiary of PTT Chemical…
The Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co. (Takreer, United Arab Emirates; www.takreer.com) has awarded the Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) a process license technology package that will include four Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) technologies along with the world’s largest…
Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.synthesisenergy.com), a global industrial gasification company, and Aker Solutions US Inc. (www.akersolutions.com), a U.S. based subsidiary of Aker Solutions ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.akerasa.com) have entered into an engineering agreement. “Aker Solutions’ expertise in…
Petrom S.A. of Romania has commissioned Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) to build a gasoline desulphurization plant at its refinery located in Brazi, some 50km north of Bucharest. This clean-fuels plant is scheduled to come on-stream in early 2009 with…
Royal Dutch Shell plc (The Hague, Netherlands; www.shell.com) and its subsidiaries and Iogen Corp. (Ottowa, Canada; www.iogen.ca) today announced an extended commercial alliance to accelerate development and deployment of cellulosic ethanol. The terms of the agreement include a significant investment by…
GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has further strengthened its Farm Technologies Division through the acquisition of Norbco, Inc. (Westmoreland, NY). Norbco, Inc., has so far been the sole and exclusive supplier of conventional heavy- and medium-duty milking parlor stalls…
A massive fire that injured four workers and caused the total shutdown and evacuation of the Valero McKee Refinery in Sunray, Tex., in February 2007 likely occurred after water leaked through a valve, froze, and cracked an out-of-service section of…
Ashland Inc. (Covington, Ky.) and Hercules Inc. (Wilmington, Del.) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Ashland would acquire all of the outstanding shares of Hercules for $18.60 per share in cash and 0.093…
Airgas, Inc. (Radnor, Pa.; www.airgas.com) today announced that it will build a new 450-ton/d liquid-carbon-dioxide plant at the First United Ethanol LLC, (FUEL) complex in Camilla, Ga. Airgas entered into a 15-year agreement with FUEL, which will supply the feedstock…