Process Optimization
Takreer taps Jacobs for waste heat recovery FEED work at Ruwais refinery
Jacobs has been contracted to provide FEED services that focus on raising efficiency at the plant to enhance power generation and water production, while reducing adverse environmental impacts.
Fluor to acquire Dutch industrial services provider Stork for $755 million
Stork is a global provider of maintenance, modification and asset integrity services associated with large existing industrial facilities in the oil and gas, petrochemicals, industrial and power markets.
Technip to supply furnaces at Czech ethylene hub
The project covers the engineering, supply and construction of the furnaces, including the associated pipe-rack. These new furnaces will replace damaged units at the site.
Wood Group buys downstream contractor Infinity
Texas-based Infinity provides a range of services including mechanical construction, fabrication, project management, turnarounds, maintenance services, heavy civil works, site preparation, and electrical and instrumentation services. The existing management team will continue to lead the business.
SOCAR contracts Axens on Baku refinery upgrade
Axens is recognized by SOCAR as a key provider for clean fuel technologies after its involvement in the STAR refinery project in Turkey, where it supplied the naphtha, kerosene and diesel hydrotreating processes.
Improve acetylene hydrogenation selectivity using dynamic deactivation estimation
Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (SSPC) has been closely working with the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) on technical research to improve operational efficiency, reduce energy consumption and increase ethylene production.
Improve FCC margins by processing more vacuum residue in feed
With the greater processing of heavy crude oils in refineries, the importance of fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCUs) has increased.
G2 LNG contracts KBR for Louisiana export FEED
KBR will perform FEED engineering for a two-train LNG facility using Air Products and Chemicals technology. KBR will also provide technical documentation required during the pre-filing process.
Pemex awards EPC work to ICA Fluor to upgrade Tula refinery at Hidalgo
Once the upgrade is completed, the refinery’s processing capacity will increase from 315,000 bpd to 340,000 bpd. The project’s mechanical completion is scheduled for the second quarter of 2018.
Saudi Aramco, Hyundai Heavy to align on new downstream, EPC business
The agreement lays out a comprehensive, multi-faceted business cooperation framework in areas such as engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and downstream.
- NAPCOR releases 2024 PET recycling report highlighting system efficiency gains and continued strength of PET circularity 12/12
- OQ courts other partners for petrochemical complex in Oman as SABIC drops out 12/12
- Brazil's BNDES approves $71 MM for carbon storage project 12/12
- Cuba on edge as U.S. seizure of oil tanker puts supply at risk 12/12
- China oil demand to plateau between 2025 and 2030 12/12
- Germany's PCK refinery says no impact from pipeline leak 12/12
