Next Wave Energy Partners, LP (Houston; www.nextwaveenergy.com) has made a positive final investment decision (FID) to construct a new alkylate production facility, known as Project Traveler, which will be located adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel at Next Wave’s 53-acre site…
The Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), Shell Overseas Services Ltd. (Shell; www.shell.com) and Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. (www.amg-nv.com) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to evaluate the potential for construction and operation, subject to regulatory approvals, of a spent…
Today Shell (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) announced it has successfully made high-end chemicals using a liquid feedstock made from plastic waste. The technique, known as pyrolysis, is considered a breakthrough for hard-to-recycle plastics and advances Shell’s ambition to use…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract for its PLINKE Hydrochloric Acid (HCl) Purification technologies by Italmatch Deutschland GmbH for its phosphorous acid production plant in Frankfurt, Germany. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide technology license,…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) for September 2019 increased from the previous month’s value by 0.7, reversing a trend of declining values this year. Three of the four major subindices —…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) has announced that multiple debottlenecking projects underway to continually increase capacity to meet growing global demand for alkyl amines. The projects are taking place at Eastman’s global integrated assets located in North America, Europe…
Honeywell announced that Enterprise Products Partners L.P. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) C3 Oleflex technology in its second propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant, called “PDH 2.” Located near Mont Belvieu, Texas, PDH 2 will produce 750,000 metric tons…
Saft (Levallois-Perret, France; www.saftbatteries.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com), has won an order for three Intensium Max 20 High Energy containers from TuuliWatti, the Finnish wind developer and operator. The lithium-ion energy storage system (ESS) will…
Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara; www.sadara.com) and Baker Hughes (Houston; www.bakerhughes.com) have signed agreements through which Sadara will supply feedstock chemicals to Baker Hughes’ new chemical manufacturing facility in PlasChem Park. Under the agreements’ terms, Sadara will supply ethylene oxide (EO)…
The Lenzing Group (Lenzing, Austria; www.lenzing.com) officially launched construction work in Thailand to build the world’s largest lyocell production plant. Following the approval granted to the project in June 2019 and the successful signing of the Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management…