Thinnes, Billy
HP Construction: South America
Skanska has a contract to build a hydrodesulphurization (HDS) unit at a Refap refinery in Brazil. Skanska's contract amount totals $150 million. The contract covers construction of the HDS unit at R..
HP Construction: Europe
Technip has a lumpsum front-end engineering design (FEED) contract with Shtokman Development Co. for the onshore portion of the first phase of the Shtokman gas project in Russia. The Shtokman gas fie..
HP Construction: Middle East
CB&I has a contract for approximately $40 million for several large water storage tanks to be built at an independent water and power plant project in the Middle East. The project is scheduled to b..
HP Associations: Taking aim at the policy and business side of carbon capture
  The Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) is based in London. Judith Konigshofer is a policy officer for the organization. Hydrocarb..
HP Construction: North America
Hunt Refining Co. has selected UOP LLC to supply technology, basic engineering services and equipment as part of Hunt's plan to double its gasoline and diesel output for the southeastern US. Hunt wil..
HP Construction: Europe
Galp Energia will use Chevron Lummus Global's (CLG's) deep-conversion Isocracking technology as a part of its approximately $1.4 billion investment plan to boost margins and increase production for i..
HP Construction: Africa
Winfield Resources, Ltd., has received a license to refine oil in Mauritania. This license is a result of Winfield's application to build, own and operate a new 300,000-bpd oil refinery at the Port o..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
PetroChina Petrochemical Co. has selected Dow's polypropylene process technology for its new 300-ktpy polypropylene facility, and Aker Kvaerner will provide the extended process design package and te..
HP Associations: FIATECH supports technology development across industries
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HP Construction: North America
Fluor Corp. will provide integrated engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for Marathon Oil Corp.'s projected $1.9 billion expansion and upgrade of the company's Detroit, Michigan, refinery...
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