Engineering & Design
AMPO Poyam Valves completes construction of new manufacturing facility in India
IDIAZABAL, Spain -- AMPO Poyam Valves has completed construction of their new valve manufacturing plant in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu, India) in order to accommodate AMPO’s expanding capabilities.
Air Liquide signs long-term contract with Oman petroleum group
Air Liquide and Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic), Oman’s national refining company, recently signed a long-term agreement for the supply of nitrogen to the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC), a new plastics production complex including the country’s first steam cracker Orpic is adding to its existing production facilities, in Sohar industrial port area in Oman.
CB&I awarded multiple petchem technology contracts in china
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- CB&I announced it has been awarded multiple technology contracts by Tianjin Bohua Chemical Development Co. Ltd. for a grassroots petrochemicals plant to be built in Tianjin, China.
Shell makes progress on site work for Pennsylvania petchem complex
HOUSTON – Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC has made progress on site preparations for its new major petrochemicals complex in Pennsylvania, USA. The early works program is in preparation for the start of main site construction in late 2017, with commercial production beginning early next decade.
ExxonMobil completes heavy lift of hydrocracker tower at Rotterdam refinery
ROTTERDAM -- ExxonMobil successfully completed the heavy lift of its vacuum fractionation tower for the hydrocracker at its Rotterdam refinery this April.
Bahrain's Bapco starts talks with contractors on Sitra expansion bids
DUBAI (Reuters) -- State-run Bahrain Petroleum Co (Bapco) has started two weeks of negotiations with international contractors to clarify bids to expand the Sitra oil refinery, estimated to cost around $5 B.
Alfa Laval awarded heat exchanger order for West African refinery
LUND, Sweden -- Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers to a refinery in West Africa. The order, booked in the Welded Heat Exchangers unit of the Energy Division late March, has a value of approximately SEK 55 million and delivery is scheduled for 2017 and 2018.
ChemChina, IPP team to supply turn-key chlor-alkali plants
PRINCETON JUNCTION, New Jersey and BEIJING -- International Process Plants (IPP) and ChemChina's Bluestar (Beijing) Chemical Machinery Company, Ltd. (BCMC) announce a partnership for IPP to provide new chlorine alkali plants designed and built by BCMC to industries around the world.
CB&I to provide up to 30 technologies to refining, petchem complex in China
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- CB&I announced it has signed a strategic alliance with Jinzhou Port Co., Ltd. (Jingang) to become the master licensor for an integrated refining and petrochemicals project in Jinzhou City, China.
GTC provides isomerization, dividing wall technology at BPCL refinery in India
HOUSTON, Texas — GTC Technology has provided its low-temperature Isomalk-2 process technology for the successful start-up of a light naphtha isomerization unit at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Ltd. refinery in Mumbai, India.
- Southern Energy Renewables and Axens Sign MoU to advance SAF projects in Louisiana and beyond 4/8
- One of the largest heat pumps in the world has reached BASF's Ludwigshafen site 4/8
- LANXESS introduces surcharge for Lewatit ion exchange resins 4/8
- HyOrc secures industrial site and accelerated permitting path for Portugal green methanol project 4/8
- India raises HPCL Rajasthan Refinery project cost to $8.6 B 4/8
- Iranian Oil Refining Co. confirms attack on Lavan refinery 4/8
