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KBR to provide proprietary ammonia technology to PAU in Indonesia
KBR, Inc. (Houston, www.kbr.com) announced that it has entered into an agreement to provide its proprietary Ammonia InSite Technology to PT Panca Amara Utama (PAU) for the Sulawesi, Indonesia ammonia plant complex. Ammonia InSite Technology is a KBR integrated solution…
Valero to use CB&I’s CDAlky technology for St. Charles refinery project
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that its CDAlky technology has been selected by Valero Refining – New Orleans LLC for its St. Charles Alkylation Project located in Norco, Louisiana. CB&I's overall scope of supply on the project includes CDAlky…
Trinseo opens pilot plant and expanded S-SBR facility in Germany
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.; www.trinseo.com) marked the opening of its new pilot plant and Solution-Styrene Butadiene Rubber (S-SBR) capacity expansion at Schkopau, Germany. Business leaders and dignitaries, among them Dr. Reiner Haseloff, Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, celebrated the opening, marking an important…
BP licenses PTA process technology to SOCAR Turkey
BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and SOCAR Turkey Enerji A.Ş have entered into a licensing agreement for BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology. SOCAR Turkey intends to deploy the technology in its new unit, which will have capacity to…
Kathu CSP plant successfully connected to the national grid
The engineering and technology group Sener S.A. (Las Arenas, Spain; www.engineeringandconstruction.sener) and Acciona Industrial S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.acciona.com) have achieved the connection of the 100-MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant to 132 kV ESKOM Distribution line on February 23, 2018.…
Clean Harbors buys Veolia Environmental Services North America
Veolia North America, Inc.’s (Boston, Mass.; www.veolianorthamerica.com) subsidiary Veolia Environmental Services North America, LLC was sold to Clean Harbors, Inc. (Norwell, Mass.; www.cleanharbors.com). Brown Gibbons Lang & Co.’s (BGL) Environmental & Industrial Services team served as the exclusive financial advisor…
Honeywell and Equate to collaborate in support of new petrochemical technologies
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) and EQUATE Petrochemical Co. K.S.C.C. (Ahmadi, Kuwait; www.equate.com) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to further the development of innovative technologies to support operations at EQUATE's industrial complexes. EQUATE is currently the…
DowDuPont details plans to separate its three corporate divisions
DowDuPont (www.dow-dupont.com) announced the corporate brand names that each of its divisions plans to assume once they are separated as independent companies as intended. While certain product names will change at separation, many products within each intended company will continue…
Norsk Hydro acquires aluminum assets in Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands
Norsk Hydro ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.hydro.com) has made a binding offer to acquire Rio Tinto’s 100% share in Icelandic aluminum plant ISAL. The offer also includes the Dutch anode facility Aluchemie and Swedish aluminum fluoride plant Alufluor. The transaction includes…
JFE Steel orders Meros off-gas cleaning system from Primetals Technologies for new Fukuyama 3 sinter plant
Primetals Technologies, Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com) has received an order from Japanese steel producer JFE Steel Co. (JFE Steel) to supply a Meros (maximized emission reduction of sintering) off-gas cleaning system for its new sinter plant for the Fukuyama, Japan…