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Praxair to build air separation plant in west India

Praxair plans to build a new state-of-the-art air separation plant in the rapidly growing Pune-Mumbai industrial corridor of western India, the industrial gases firm said on Tuesday.

Alfa Laval wins order for heat exchangers from Qatar natural gas project

Alfa Laval has received an order from Japanese engineering company JGC Corp. to supply heat exchangers for a major natural gas project in Qatar. The order value is approximately SEK 90 million and delivery is scheduled for 2012.

Solutia adds to high-tech film manufacturing in Asia

Solutia has acquired additional capacity for its high-tech conductive film manufacturing operation in the Asia-Pacific region, continuing the company's expansion in support of the region's fast-growing mobile electronics and smart window markets.

Tyco inks supply deal with Shell for butterfly valves

The flow control unit of Tyco International has been selected by Shell to provide butterfly valves for the company’s global operations. The five-year agreement covers more than 2,500 of Tyco's Vanessa, Winn, NeoTecha and Sapag brand highly engineered butterfly valves, for use in projects, maintenance repair operations and turnaround applications, the company said.

BP, Reliance close $7.2bn deal on India gas alliance

BP has completed its acquisition of a 30% stake in 21 oil and gas production sharing contracts (PSCs) that Reliance Industries operates in India, including the producing KG D6 block. This significant step will commence the planned alliance which will operate across the gas value chain in India, from exploration and production to distribution and marketing, the companies said.

Air Liquide to engineer, license coal-to-propylene project in China

The engineering and construction division of Air Liquide signed a contract with the Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group (SNCG) in China to build a 500,000 tpy methanol-to-propylene (MTP) plant, following the successful commissioning of the first industrial scale unit built with the same client.

Siemens to supply core compressor train for China propane dehydrogenation unit

Siemens Energy has received an order for the supply of two gas-turbine-driven axial-flow compressors trains for the first propane dehydrogenation (PDH) project in China.

India ammonia group picks KBR for engineering, technology license

KBR was awarded a contract by Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) - a Jaypee Group company - to provide license and engineering design services for JAL’s brownfield 2,200 tpd ammonia plant in Kanpur, India.

PPG, Harsha to form India fiber glass joint venture

PPG Industries signed a letter of intent with India-based Harsha Exito Engineering to establish a 50-50 joint venture for the manufacture and sale of fiber glass reinforcement products.

Honeywell unit to provide production technology on China petrochemical project

Honeywell’s UOP has been selected by Jiangsu Haili Chemical Industry Co. to provide technologies for the production of propylene, cumene and phenol at its facility in Dafeng City, Jiangsu Province, China.