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Specialty chemical plant being built in Louisiana

Myriant Technologies, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Myriant Lake Providence Inc., will soon begin building a new 392,000-square-foot plant at the Port of Lake Providence, Louisiana. Myrant hopes the plant will be the world's largest bio-based succinic acid plant.

Jacobs buys Aker Solutions' process and construction business

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has reached a definitive agreement with Aker Solutions ASA to purchase a number of Aker's operations within its process and construction (P&C) business area.

Chiyoda giving Shell a hand in Singapore and Malaysia

Chiyoda Singapore (Pte) Ltd., signed a new engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract with Shell Eastern Petroleum Ltd. for a project in its Pulau Bukom manufacturing site in Singapore.

Jacobs working on desulfurization unit in Taiwan

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract from CPC Corp. to design and license Jacobs' proprietary technology for a desulfurization unit as part of the Ta-Lin refinery expansion project in Kaoshiung, Taiwan.

Technip awarded major contract in Algeria

Technip has been awarded by Sonatrach, the Algerian national oil company, a contract for the refurbishment and revamping of the Algiers refinery.

Maximize return on capital projects

Fluor: Humphries, J.

How to achieve all of your major capital investments objectives on budget and schedule

Consider new coatings for maintenance turnaround

SemCrude: Karner, C.
Sherwin-Williams: Toews, B.

Epoxy system provides speed of application as well as environmental benefits for large storage tanks

Improve engineering via whole-plant design optimization

Process Systems Enterprise Ltd.: Matzopoulos, M.
Repsol (Technology Unit): Martín Rodríguez, H.
Process Systems Enterprise, Inc.: Cano, A.

New simulation methods identify cost-effective advantages early

Convert waste heat into eco-friendly energy

WorleyParsons: Bourji, A.  |  Barnhart, J.  |  Winningham, J.  |  Winstead, A.

New developments, such as the organic Rankine cycle, help operations go ‘green’

Optimize heat exchanger installations

Fluor Daniel India (1): Mandal, M.

This case study proves that a systematic approach for thermal design can identify substantial savings in projects