Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) will invest over €50 million in its Andalusian chemical plants in 2016 (€30.1 million at its plants in San Roque, Cádiz, and €20 million in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva), to…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland: www.clariant.com) today announces two acquisitions in the oilfield-production-chemicals business. After closing, the agreed purchases of Kel-Tech Inc. (Midland, Tex.) and X-Chem LLC (Irving, Tex.) add approx. $200 million of sales, as well as personnel, technology and expertise…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Ineos Oligomers to design and build a large linear alpha olefin (LAO) unit at the Ineos petrochemical complex in Chocolate Bayou, Texas. The LAO unit is expected to…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London; U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has been awarded a contract by JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) to design and supply a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generator for the SEC210 Phase 2 Project in the Philippines for Sarangani Energy Corp.…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by a major North American petroleum refiner for the technology license and engineering design of a new alkylation process unit to be located on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The unit…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) has selected its La Porte, Tex., manufacturing complex as the site for a new High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Plant. The plant will be the first commercial plant to employ LyondellBasell's new proprietary Hyperzone PE technology…
3M (St. Paul, Minn.; www.3m.com) has entered into an agreement to sell the assets of its temporary protective films business to Pregis LLC. 3M’s temporary protective films business is a provider of adhesive-backed temporary protective films used in a broad…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has completed the divestiture of certain U.S. assets to Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. (www.mathesongas.com) first announced on June 24, 2016, and cleared by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a decision published on September 1, 2016. This…
SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) has entered into a share purchase agreement to divest its Polymershapes distribution business to Blackfriars Corp., a privately-held investment company. The transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed during…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has achieved mechanical completion on a citral facility and associated infrastructure for BASF Petronas Chemicals in Kuantan, Malaysia. As part of the Integrated Aroma Ingredients Complex, Fluor performed front-end engineering and design, engineering, procurement and…