The Bokpoort concentrated-solar plant, built by a joint venture (JV) between Sener (www.sener.es), Acciona (both Madrid, Spain; www.acciona.com) and TSK and South Africa’s Crowie, was inaugurated today (March 14) near Upington in Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The…
NET Power, LLC (Durham, N.C.; www.netpower.com) has broken ground on a first-of- a-kind power plant that will validate a new natural-gas-fired power system that produces low-cost electricity with zero atmospheric emissions, including carbon dioxide. NET Power is a collaboration between…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a new contract for proprietary equipment and has also restarted work under the contract awarded by Tecnimont S.p.A. (part of Maire Tecnimont Group) previously announced in December 2011 for the license and…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) today announced its Socar-KBR LLC joint venture (JV) was awarded a significant project management consultancy (PMC) contract for the Heydar Aliyev Baku oil refinery modernization project in Azerbaijan. This award marks the first major award…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) announces today that it has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Sonatrach SPA for three new refineries located in Biskra, Tiaret and Hassi Messaoud, Algeria. The three refineries will each…
G2X Energy, Inc. (Houston; www.g2xenergy.com) announced that they have entered into license and engineering contracts with Johnson Matthey (London, U.K.; www.matthey.com) for their previously announced world-scale methanol production facility located in Lake Charles, La. Johnson Matthey will supply the technology…
Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com) has officially inaugurated the production of the company’s new high-purity special fluids facility in Bayport, Tex. Today’s ribbon-cutting represents the completion of a $100-million investment by the global integrated energy producer and leading international oil-and-gas organization.…
DuPont Clean Technologies (Overland Park, Kan. www.cleantechnologies.dupont.com) is pleased to announce that Hengli Petrochemical Co. (Hengli), based in Dalian, China, has awarded DuPont a contract to supply the alkylation and spent-acid regeneration (SAR) technologies for the new grassroots refinery in…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) and Nanodax Co. (Tokyo, Japan) have signed an agreement on the development of innovative polycarbonate composites reinforced with glass wool. Nanodax has developed a special process for the manufacture of these products. Conventionally, glass…
The Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) rose 0.5% in January on a three-month-moving-average (3MMA) basis, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economics Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The January rise follows similar…