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Dow, Saudi Aramco select Jacobs for engineering, construction of chemicals venture

Jacobs Engineering Group was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for the Chemicals 1 Envelope of Sadara Chemical Co., the joint venture between Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco. Construction work on the project has already started and is scheduled to be completed by early 2015.

Jacobs to engineer, manage European projects for Shell downstream distribution

Jacobs Engineering Group has received a contract from Shell Downstream Distribution to provide project management and engineering services for Shell's European program. The three-year framework agreement has an optional two-year extension.

Fluor acquires sulfur technology business in Texas from Air Products

Fluor said on Monday that it has acquired Goar, Allison & Associates, a unit of Air Products. The Tyler, Texas-based company provides sulfur technologies for upstream gas plants, downstream refineries and gasification.

Technip forms technology partnership with French atomic energy group

France-based engineering major Technip has signed a strategic partnership agreement for innovation and technology development with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The agreement is valid for an initial period of three years.

Spent caustic management: Remediation review

Understanding of waste components needed for proper spent caustic disposal

Improve material balance in high-purity distillation control

Summa Control Solutions Inc.: Nino, S.

Using dual-composition conserved energy efficiency, reduced reprocessing and allowed higher throughput

Investigation: Failure of a steam generator

SABIC R&T: Babakr, A.  |  Bairamov, A.

In case history, engineers search for root cause of water-side tube failures for a 23-year-old boiler

HP Reliability: One pump fire per 1,000 pump repairs

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

While performing reliability audits decades ago, pump-failure statistics were made available or could be recovered with relative ease. But even then, the sources were usually kept confidential because..

HP Water Management: Don’t let water be the reason for a turnaround

MarTech Systems, Inc.: Huchler, L. A.

Several years ago, while arriving onsite during another unit turnaround, I joked to a process engineer at the refinery “I get it. . . every time I ‘turn around,’ you have a turnaround.&..

HP Integration Strategies: Aging HPI workforce drives need for operator training systems

ARC Advisory Group: Abel, J.

As a leading research and consulting organization focused on the process industries, manufacturing, infrastructure and other industrial sectors, ARC Advisory Group has been closely following the emerg..