Petrochemicals
Foster Wheeler wins engineering on monoethylene glycol project of Qatar, Shell
The MEG facility will be part of a new petrochemicals complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City being developed by a joint venture of Qatar Petroleum and Shell. The two-train MEG facility, based on Shell’s OMEGA technology, is planned to produce 1.5 million tpy of MEG. The expected startup date was not disclosed.
Dow Chemical to revamp organizational structure
Effective immediately, Dow is eliminating the current business division structure and move to a global business unit model that will have business presidents. The presidents will be accountable for generating increased earnings and the accelerated advancement and execution of Dow's strategy.
Sinopec forms new engineering company in Beijing for refining, petrochemicals
Sinopec Group, the parent of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, says the unit has the capacity to handle over 20 large engineering, procurement and construction projects simultaneously.
HP Automation Safety: ‘Sticktion’: A dangerous failure mode
I set a wet glass on the old wooden kitchen table at our home. It sat there all night. The next morning, when I went to grab the glass, it stuck to the table. Yes, this event has happened before. But,..
HP Impact: Future bright for molybdenum
Roskill recently released a market outlook on molybdenum. The company expects that molybdenum growth rates will exceed global GDP rates to 2016.Global demand for molybdenum bounced back from the impac..
HP Construction: North America
CB&I has a contract from Enterprise Products Partners L.P. for the license and basic engineering of a propane dehydrogenation unit on the Texas Gulf Coast. The unit will use the CATOFIN propane dehydr..
HP Construction: Europe
INEOS Technologies has licensed its Innovene G, Innovene S and Innovene PP processes to ZAO Vostochnaya Neftechemicheskaya Co. (ZAO VNHK), a subsidiary of OJSC NK Rosneft, for VNHK’s new petroche..
HP Construction: Middle East
Saipem has signed a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical for the naphtha and aromatics package of the PETRORabigh II Project, expan..
HP Construction: Asia Pacific
Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) has awarded Technip a contract to supply a license, basic-engineering package, and engineering and procurement services for the refinery offgas cracker (ROGC) plant. Thi..
DuPont to sell performance coatings unit to Carlyle
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter 2013, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. DuPont Performance Coatings is a global supplier of vehicle and industrial coating systems with 2012 expected sales of more than $4 billion and more than 11,000 employees.
- ABB Ethernet-APL flowmeters to support digitalization at a large petrochemical complex in China 7/2
- Axens acquires Methanol-to-Propylene technology, expanding its SAF portfolio 7/2
- Lighthouse Green Fuels completes FEED for UK SAF project 7/2
- Höegh Evi and Nord Gas Solutions validate ammonia-to-hydrogen cracking technology for floating hydrogen terminals 7/2
- Metacon develops advanced catalytic testing unit for European research customer 7/2
- Yara to acquire Gulf Coast Ammonia Texas (U.S.) facility for $1.3 B 7/2
