Construction
Enerkem gets loan guarantee for Mississippi waste-to-fuel biorefinery
Enerkem Corp. has obtained a conditional commitment for an $80 million loan guarantee by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), for the construction of its waste-to-biofuels project in Pontotoc, Mississippi, which will transform Northeast Mississippi’s municipal solid waste into ethanol.
ONEOK Partners invests in additional natural gas processing plant in North Dakota
ONEOK Partners plans to invest another $260 million to $305 million between now and the end of 2014 for additional projects in the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin of North Dakota.
Deloitte expands energy analytics capabilities
Deloitte has acquired all of the assets of Altos Management Partners, Inc., a consultancy to energy companies that was founded in 1995, as well as those of MarketPoint, Inc., an Altos sister company best known for MarketBuilder, an analytic suite for energy market modeling and price forecasting.
Samsung Engineering breaks into the US plant market
Samsung Engineering has signed a contract for a $411 million chlor-alkali plant with Dow-Mitsui Chlor-Alkali LLC, a joint-venture comprised of Dow Chemical (US) and Mitsui (Japan).
Petrobras signs contract for new units at Refap
Petrobras signed today a contract for the construction of the new diesel hydrotreating unit (HDT II) and the new hydrogen generation unit (UGH II) at the Alberto Pasqualini refinery (Refap) in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Kentz helping get Qatar’s Pearl GTL plant in shape
Kentz Corp. Ltd. has been enlisted to assist in executing plant change requests for Qatar Shell GTL Ltd. Kentz will provide engineering design, construction supervision and procurement services for plant changes and projects at the Pearl gas to liquids (GTL) plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.
Consider different alternatives for enriching lean acid gases
New developments improve operation of Claus sulfur recovery units
Case 60: Socket-weld failures
A risk analysis can determine which critical welds to repair
HP Control: Process control practice renewal—select CVs
I followed my April 2010 call for renewal of process control and IT practice with editorials on purpose in August, performance in October and consequences in December. Now I turn to selection of contr..
HP Reliability: Packing not best practice for firewater pumps
Statistics show that for every 1,000 pump failures in hydrocarbon processing plants, there will be a fire. Fig. 1 shows a typical visible outcome, and the final bill for remedying such disastrous resu..
- UPM unlocks new bio-based markets as Leuna biorefinery produces its first commercial product 12/19
- Stamicarbon awarded technology licensing contract for new urea plant in Eastern China 12/19
- Ford takes $19.5-B writedown on EV business 12/19
- Babcock & Wilcox awarded $40-MM contract for advanced wet gas scrubbing technology at Canadian petroleum refinery 12/19
- Aarti Industries secures methanol and toluene feedstock supply through multiple long-term contracts 12/19
- bp picks first outsider CEO Meg O'Neill after abrupt Auchincloss exit 12/19
