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HP Construction: North America
  BASF started up its new alkylethanolamines plant in Geismar, Louisiana. The new plant complements existing amine production facilities at that site that now include 20 different specialty amine..
HP Construction: South America
  Aker Kvaerner has completed two offshore sulphate removal units (SRUs) in Brazil. The work was executed by Aker Kvaerner Process Systems. The SRU on Petrobras FPSO P50 has a capacity of 220,000..
HP Construction: Europe
  The first commercial Frame 5-2E gas turbine manufactured by GE Oil & Gas was shipped recently for installation at Yara Sluiskil B.V.'s fertilizer plant in The Netherlands. The new 30-megawatt c..
HP Construction: Middle East
  Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has a contract to provide the basic design package for a 900-tpd sulfur recovery unit (SRU) for the Khursaniyah gas plant in Saudi Arabia. The new SRU will recover..
HP Construction: Asia Pacific
  Aker Kvaerner has a contract with BP, Associated British Foods Plc (ABF) and DuPont to execute the front-end engineering and design for a planned new bioethanol plant in the UK. Aker Kvaerner's..
HP Construction: Africa
  Total has a contract with Sonatrach to build a petrochemical complex in Arzew, Algeria. The project encompasses the construction of an ethane cracker and three product lines. It is expected t..
HP Construction: Europe
Aker Kvaerner and SKF have established a partnership for condition-based maintenance for the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry. The agreement integrates Aker Kvaerner's expertise in engineeri..
HP Construction: South America
  Fluor Daniel South America Limited has announced it will lead a consortium with J. Ray McDermott to provide program management, engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the 4,..
HP Construction: Middle East
  GE Water & Process Technologies has announced the construction of a new chemical manufacturing facility in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The new 7,500-m2 chemical blending plant will bring over 10,000 ..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
  GE Energy has a licensing agreement with CJSC Nizhnekamsk refinery to provide gasification technology for a new oil refining and petrochemical complex in Nizhnekamsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Rus..

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