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Clough Curtain Receive Work Order for PNG LNG Upstream Infrastructure

Curtain Joint Venture receives firm work orders worth AU$250 Million associated with the Upstream Infrastructure contract awarded on 1 May 2009. Total value of work awarded to CCJV on the Upstream Infrastructure project now stands at AU$560 Million.
03/09/2010 More »

Woodside Update on Browse LNG Development Land Access

Woodside acknowledges the Western Australian Government's decision to proceed with the compulsory acquisition of land required for the State's Browse LNG Precinct. Woodside is the foundation commercial proponent at the Precinct.
03/09/2010 More »

BP to Sell Malaysian Ethylene and Polyethylene Interests to Petronas

BP agree to sell its interests in ethylene and polyethylene production in Malaysia to Petronas. The agreement concerns BP's 15 per cent interest in Ethylene Malaysia Sdn Bhd and 60 per cent interest in Polyethylene Malaysia Sdn Bhd, both of which are operated by Petronas.
03/09/2010 More »

KBR Awarded Contract by Chemetall Foote Corp. for Lithium Hydroxide Operation Expansion

KBR's Downstream business unit awarded contract to provide engineering and procurement services to Chemetall Foote Corp. (a subsidiary of Rockwood Holdings, Inc.) for the addition of lithium hydroxide production at its current operation in Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
31/08/2010 More »

BAM Clough JV Awarded Letter of Intent for PNG LNG Jetty

Clough today announced that the BAM Clough Joint Venture received a Letter of Intent from Chiyoda JGC Joint Venture to proceed with the design and construction of the LNG and condensate offloading jetty for the PNG LNG project.
28/08/2010 More »

Shell and Cosan Sign Joint Venture

US$12-billion joint venture between Shell International Petroleum Company Limited (Shell) and Cosan S.A. (Cosan) moves closer to reality today when the two companies signed binding agreements.
25/08/2010 More »

KBR Awarded Contracts by The Republic of Iraq Ministry of Oil for Grassroots FCC and ROSE© Units at Maissan Refinery

KBR awarded two contracts by the Republic of Iraq Ministry of Oil through the South Refineries Company. KBR will provide licensing and basic engineering services for the construction of Fluid Catalytic Cracking and Solvent Deasphalting units at the planned grassroots Maissan Refinery in Maissan, Iraq.
24/08/2010 More »

Review of Project Application Report Submitted by Sasol and the Shenhua Ningxia Coal Group

The review, by the appointed experts, of the Project Application Report, submitted by Sasol and the Shenhua Ningxia Coal Group, as owners of the planned Coal to Liquids facility in Ningxia Hui Autonomus Region, to the China Development and Reform Commission, will conclude tomorrow in Yinchuan China.
23/08/2010 More »

U.S. Department of Energy Awards Fluor-Led Team 10-Year, $2.1 Billion Contract for Portsmouth Cleanup

Fluor-B&W Portsmouth chosen by U.S. Department of Energy for next phase of cleanup at the Portsmouth site in Pike County, Ohio.
18/08/2010 More »

Mustang Selected by Ecopetrol Transporte Division for Capital Project Development Services in Colombia

Ecopetrol S.A., an energy and petrochemical company headquartered in Colombia, award Wood Group's Mustang two-year Master Service Agreement to provide pipeline engineering expertise and related services.
17/08/2010 More »

President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Jonathan Goodluck Meets with Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni

President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Jonathan Ebele Goodluck, met recently in Abuja with Eni CEO, Paolo Scaroni, to discuss the strategies in the Nigerian hydrocarbon sector within the current international energy environment.
17/08/2010 More »

BASF to Build Dispersions Plant in Huizhou to Better Serve Growing Markets in South China

BASF to invest in dispersions plant in Daya Bay Petrochemical Industrial Park in Huizhou, China. The new plant will produce XSB dispersions for the paper industry and acrylic dispersions for industries such as coatings, construction, printing & packaging and adhesives.
16/08/2010 More »

Jacobs Receives Contract From Heurtey Petrochem for New Hydrogen Plant in Serbia

Jacobs Engineering receive contract from Heurtey Petrochem SA, France to provide engineering services for new hydrogen plant generation unit at the Naftna Industrija Srbije refinery.
10/08/2010 More »

New Contract Win for Cape in Algeria

Cape awarded contract by Snamprogetti Chiyoda s.a.s. di Saipem S.p.A.. Contract is for provision of the total insulation works for the Sonatrach GL3-Z LNG Project in Arzew, Algeria.
10/08/2010 More »

CB&I Announces Technology Award for PDH Plant in China

CB&I's Lummus Technology awarded contract by Tianjin Bohua Petrochemical Company for license and engineering design of grassroots propane dehydrogenation unit to be built in Tianjin, China.
09/08/2010 More »

AMEC and SZPE Form New Joint Venture in China to Provide Engineering Services

AMEC and Shanghai Zone Petrochemical Engineering Co. Ltd (SZPE), a chemical engineering company based in Shanghai, form new joint venture in China, SZPE AMEC.
09/08/2010 More »

Shaw Selected to Provide Project Management Consultancy Services for Base Oils Plant at Ruwais Refinery

Shaw Group awarded contract by Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) to provide project management consultancy services during the engineering, procurement and construction phase of a base oils plant at the Ruwais Industrial Complex in Abu Dhabi.
03/08/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Uruguay's First LNG Receiving Terminal

Foster Wheeler awarded owner's engineer contract for new LNG receiving terminal (the "GNL Del Plata" facility) to be built in Montevideo, in the region of Río de la Plata, Uruguay.
03/08/2010 More »

Jacobs Receives Alliance Contract from Eastman Chemical Company for Construction, and Maintenance Services

Jacobs Engineering Group receive multi-year, continuous presence contract from Eastman Chemical Company for program management services, capital construction projects and site maintenance support at its Kingsport, Tennessee, site.
03/08/2010 More »

Shaw Selected to Provide Project Management Consultancy Services for Adana Dogu Akdeniz Refinery in Turkey

Shaw Group awarded contract by Dogu Akdeniz Petrokimya ve Rafineri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., a subsidiary of Çal k Enerji, to provide project management consultancy services for grassroots refinery in Yumurtal k located in the Ceyhan region of Turkey.
28/07/2010 More »

CB&I Awarded LNG Storage Tank Contract

CB&I awarded contract, valued in excess of US$190 million, for two LNG storage tanks associated with major liquefaction project in the Asia Pacific region.
27/07/2010 More »

Jacobs Receives Contract From Dow for European Copolymer Manufacturing Facility

Jacobs receives contract from The Dow Chemical Company to provide engineering and construction management services for the expansion of its facility in Fombio, Italy. Jacobs expected to execute project from their Milan, Italy office.
20/07/2010 More »

Apache, KUFPEC and KOGAS Sign LNG Sales and Equity Agreements for Wheatstone Project in Western Australia

Apache Corporation today announced that its subsidiary - together with a subsidiary of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. k.s.c. - signed Heads of Agreement for the purchase of liquefied natural gas from the Wheatstone LNG project in Australia and an equity stake in the project by Korea Gas Corporation.
19/07/2010 More »

Chevron and KOGAS Sign Major LNG and Equity Agreements for the Wheatstone

Chevron Corporation's Australian subsidiaries sign Heads of Agreement with Korea Gas Corporation for delivery of liquefied natural gas from the Chevron-operated Wheatstone natural gas project in Australia.
19/07/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Feed Framework Agreement for Kårstø Life Extension Project in Norway

Foster Wheeler enters into Framework Agreement, awarded by Statoil, acting on behalf of Gassco AS as operator for the Gassled joint venture, for front-end engineering design services valid through 2013 to support the development of the Kårstø oil and gas processing plant in Norway.
15/07/2010 More »

Jacobs Forms Relationship With PTT Maintenance and Engineering Company Limited, Thailand

Jacobs Engineering Group signs Memorandum of Understanding with PTT Maintenance and Engineering Company Limited, a leading maintenance and engineering contracting company based in Thailand.
08/07/2010 More »

Eni Enters Agreements with U.S. Department of Justice and SEC Over Former Subsidiary Snamprogetti

Snamprogetti Netherlands B.V., former indirect subsidiary of Eni and current subsidiary of Saipem, enters into deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve an investigation into Snamprogetti Netherlands B.V.'s activities in connection with contracts to build liquid natural gas facilities on Bonny Island, Nigeria.
07/07/2010 More »

Jacobs Launches New Management and Strategy Consulting Company

Jacobs Engineering Group launches new company, LeighFisher Inc., dedicated to the management and strategy consultancy market.
06/07/2010 More »

Cape to Provide Thermal Insulation Works on Borouge Phase 3 Project

Cape awarded letter of intent to provide Thermal Insulation Works on the Borouge Phase 3 petrochemical project in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi. Award follows Cape's successful completion of the Thermal Insulation Works on Borouge Phases 1 & 2.
06/07/2010 More »

AkzoNobel Sets $3 Billion China Target for 2015

AkzoNobel's ambitious growth plans for Asia underlined when company announced that it plans to double its current revenue in China within five years. A target of $3 billion has been set for 2015, with China poised to play an integral role in AkzoNobel's strategic focus on the world's growth regions.
02/07/2010 More »

Douai Court of Appeals Issues Ruling on the Flanders Refinery

Total appraised of ruling issued by the French Douai Court of Appeals. Completion of the information and consultation process allows Total to proceed with the permanent shutdown of refining operations at the facility in Dunkirk.
01/07/2010 More »

CB&I Awarded Storage Tank Contract in the Middle East

CB&I awarded contract valued in excess of US$70 million by Daewoo Engineering and Construction Co., Ltd. to provide the propylene storage tanks for the Ruwais Refinery expansion project in Abu Dhabi.
30/06/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract by GDF SUEZ for Cameroon LNG Project

Foster Wheeler awarded contract by GDF SUEZ to carry out the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) for the development of an onshore LNG plantand offshore gas gathering infrastructure.
28/06/2010 More »

KBR Awarded Contract by Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. for Development of Grassroots Ammonia Plant

KBR awarded contract by Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) to provide licensing, basic engineering and extended basic engineering, and technical consulting services for the development of a grassroots ammonia plant in Tres Lagoas, Brazil.
24/06/2010 More »

Wood Group to Provide Ready-for-start-up Operations Support Services for Chevron's Wheatstone LNG Plant in Australia

Wood Group selected by Chevron Global Upstream and Gas to provide ready-for-start-up operations support services for the Wheatstone Project LNG plant on the northwest coast of Australia. Work will be performed by ODL, Wood Group's consultancy company specializing in operations & maintenance.
24/06/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for New Grassroots Refinery in Iraq

Foster Wheeler AG's Global Engineering and Construction Group awarded feasibility study and front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil for a new grassroots refinery at Nassiriya in southern Iraq.
24/06/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Refinery Upgrade and Modernization Contract for SONARA, Cameroon

Foster Wheeler AG's Global Engineering and Construction Group awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) services contract by Société Nationale de Raffinage (SONARA) for Phase 1 of the Limbé Refinery upgrade and modernization project in Cameroon.
24/06/2010 More »

CB&I Announces Technology Award in China

CB&I announced today that Ning Bo Heyuan Chemical Company Ltd. awarded Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, a contract for the license and basic engineering of a DMTO methanol-to-olefins recovery unit, and an Olefins Conversion Technology (OCT) unit in Ning Bo, China.
23/06/2010 More »

KBR Awarded Contract by Tierra Del Fuego Power & Chemical Co., Ltd. for Development of Grassroots Ammonia Plant in Argentina

KBR today announced that it has been awarded a contract by Tierra Del Fuego Power & Chemical Co., Ltd. to provide licensing and process design for a grassroots ammonia plant in Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina.
21/06/2010 More »

AMEC Awarded Major South Hook LNG Terminal Contract

AMEC appointed by South Hook LNG Terminal Company Limited to undertake three-year term services contract for the South Hook LNG Terminal in South Wales in the UK.
24/06/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contracts for New Refinery in Turkey

Foster Wheeler awarded contracts by SOCAR & TURCAS Rafineri A.S. (STRAS) for its planned grassroots refinery to be built within the Petkim Petrokimya A.S. (PETKIM) facilities at Aliaga, Turkey.
21/06/2010 More »

Huntsman Explores Options to Further Expand its JEFFAMINE(R) Polyetheramine Manufacturing Capacity in Asia

Huntsman Corporation launches study into options to further expand its JEFFAMINE(R) polyetheramine manufacturing capacity in Asia. This follows recent announcements of expansion in the product line at its facilities in Singapore and Wales.
18/06/2010 More »

KBR Receives Change Orders for Yemen LNG Project

KBR receives final change order agreements with its joint venture partners Technip of France and JGC Corporation of Japan, for the Yemen LNG Plant. The contract on this lump-sum turnkey project, valued at more than $2 billion, was first announced in September 2005.
15/06/2010 More »

Technip Awarded Three Contracts for Refinery Units in India

Technip awarded three lump sum turnkey contracts for Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL), worth a total value of approximately €25 million, for the Phase III Expansion Project of its refinery located in Mangalore, west coast of India.
08/06/2010 More »

Aker Solutions Awarded Contract for Chlorine Dioxide Plant in Russia

Aker Solutions signs contract with Ilim Group to supply an integrated chlorine dioxide plant for Ilim's pulp mill project in Bratsk, Russia. Aker Solutions will supply technology, engineering, equipment, site and commissioning services from its office in Vancouver, Canada, with support from its office in Moscow.
01/06/2010 More »

Aker Solutions to Provide Engineering for two Arkema PVC Licenses in China

The Chinese company, Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Group Co., Ltd, opts for Arkema's PVC production processes for its new plants to be located in Xining City, People's Republic of China. As part of the cooperation agreement reached in November 2008 with Arkema, Aker Solutions will prepare the basic engineering for a 230 000 ton (kT) PVC Suspension production plant and a 35 kT PVC Emulsion plant.
26/05/2010 More »

Huntsman to Expand Its JEFFAMINE(R) Polyetheramine Manufacturing Capacity in Singapore

Performance Products division of Huntsman Corporation to expand manufacturing capacity of its JEFFAMINE® polyetheramine manufacturing facility located on Jurong Island, Singapore. Planned expansion is anticipated to occur by the end of the third quarter of this year and will increase existing capacity by more than 50%.
21/05/2010 More »

SNC-Lavalin Awarded Contract for Sulphuric/Phosphoric Acid Complex in Jordan

SNC-Lavalin awarded engineering, procurement, construction management contract to build grassroots sulphuric/phosphoric acid complex including utilities and power plant in Eshidya, Jordan by JIFCO, a joint venture company owned by Jordanian Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC) and Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO).
21/05/2010 More »

Huntsman to Recover $110 million in Insurance Settlement Proceeds

Huntsman Corporation reaches agreement with its reinsurance carriers to settle Huntsman's claims related to losses occurring as a result of the April 29, 2006, fire at its Port Arthur, Texas, olefins facility, subsequently sold to Flint Hills Resources.
21/05/2010 More »

Jacobs Receives Contract from Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited for Manali Refinery

Jacobs Engineering Group receives contract from Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL) to provide project management consultancy (PMC) and engineering, procurement, construction management (EPCM) services for the Resid Upgradation Project of CPCL at their Manali facilities in Chennai, India.
06/05/2010 More »

CB&I Awarded Concept Development for Yamal LNG Project

Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. (NYSE:CBI) announced today that CB&I Lummus awarded contract for concept development services for the Yamal LNG Integrated Project by Yamal LNG LLC.
05/05/2010 More »

AMEC Wins Mafumeira Sul FEED Contract, Offshore Angola

AMEC selected by Chevron subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Ltd (CABGOC) to perform front-end engineering design (FEED) for a significant portion of the Mafumeira Sul development project, offshore Cabinda Province, Angola.
05/05/2010 More »

AkzoNobel to Add New Plant at Ningbo Site in China

AkzoNobel to build additional plant at its Ningbo multi-site for its Functional Chemicals business. The new €17 million project - part of a total investment of €275 million - will further expand the company's rapidly growing organic peroxides activities.
29/04/2010 More »

Sunrise Joint Venture Selects Floating Processing Option

Woodside, on behalf of the Sunrise Joint Venture (JV), advises that floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility unanimously selected as the preferred processing option for Greater Sunrise gas. The Greater Sunrise fields, which include the Sunrise and Troubadour discoveries, are located about 450 km north of Darwin.
29/04/2010 More »

Fluor to Perform Jetty Boil-Off Gas Recovery Project for Qatargas

Fluor Corporation awarded engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Qatargas Operating Company Limited in Ras Laffan, Qatar. This EPCM contract is part of a project with a total capital expenditure of approximately $1 billion.
29/04/2010 More »

Jacobs Receives Three-Year Contract from DuPont

Jacobs Engineering Group awarded contract from DuPont to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services under a Master Services Agreement for the company's operations in Europe, Asia and North America. Under the three-year MSA, Jacobs will execute projects at DuPont manufacturing facilities.
27/04/2010 More »

French National Round Table on the Refining Industry

Total participate in national roundtable on the refining industry, sponsored by the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and the Sea, on April 15, 2010. The Group reiterated its strategy, objectives and commitments to overcome the structural challenges affecting the refining industry in Europe and in France in particular.
19/04/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Refinery Modernization Contracts by PETROM in Romania

Foster Wheeler subsidiary awarded contracts by PETROM S.A. for investments which form part of PETROM's Petrobrazi Modernization Project, a major refinery modernization project being implemented at the Petrobrazi Refinery in Ploesti, Romania.
13/04/2010 More »

Shell to Review Downstream Businesses in 21 Countries in Africa

Shell Oil Products Africa announce it is reviewing ownership options for its downstream businesses in 21 countries in Africa. While a number of options are being considered, the preferred outcome is the sale of most businesses in scope as going concerns, subject to successful negotiations, and any necessary regulatory and final company approvals.
05/04/2010 More »

Technip Awarded Two Contracts for the Visakh Refinery in India

Technip awarded two contracts by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) for their diesel hydrotreater project in the Visakh refinery, on the east coast of India. The two contracts will be executed by Technip's operating center in New Delhi, India.
05/04/2010 More »

Groundbreaking Expansion for Sasol and Sasolburg

Sasol celebrates breaking ground for an R8,4 billion Wax Expansion Project at its Sasolburg Sasol One Site. The first phase of the project will come into operation in 2012. When complete in 2014, it will double the Sasol Wax production of hard wax in South Africa.
05/04/2010 More »

Emerson, LUKOIL Sign Multi-Year Agreement To Modernise Automation At Refining And Petrochemical Facilities

Emerson Process Management and LUKOIL Group sign agreement to modernise 13 refining and petrochemical facilities in Russia and Eastern Europe. Under the agreement, which extends through 2014, Emerson will provide equipment, software, and services as part of LUKOIL's enterprise-wide strategy to modernise process automation at their oil and gas refineries, petrochemical plants, and related facilities.
02/04/2010 More »

SNC-Lavalin Awarded Engineering Contract for Oil Production Facilities in Venezuela

SNC-Lavalin awarded contract by the Venezuelan Petroleum Corporation - CVP, a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), for the visualization, conceptual and basic engineering phases for the production facilities and upgrading of extra heavy oil in the Orinoco Oil Belt Blocks.
26/03/2010 More »

ICA Fluor Wins Clean Fuels Projects from PEMEX

ICA Fluor, the industrial construction joint venture of Empresas ICA, S.A.B de C.V. and Fluor Corporation, announced today that Mexico's state oil company, PEMEX Refining, awarded the company engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for two low-sulfur gasoline projects in Mexico valued at $622 million as part of its clean fuels program.
24/03/2010 More »

BG Group and CNOOC Sign 20-year LNG Sales Contract

BG Group sign Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) sales contract with China National Offshore Oil Corporation, concluding negotiations announced in May 2009 for the supply of 3.6 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG over a 20-year period.
24/03/2010 More »

Total Set Up Safety Inspection Task Force

Total experienced a succession of very serious accidents, within production facilities in France particularly hard hit. In response, the company set up a Safety Inspection Task Force to tour 13 industrial facilities in France forming a representative sample of all their businesses.
23/03/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Wins EPCm Contract for Sasol's Wax Expansion Project in South Africa

Foster Wheeler AG announces that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by Sasol for its Fischer-Tropsch Wax Expansion Project to be located at Sasolburg, South Africa.
18/03/2010 More »

Jacobs and OCP Announce Joint Venture Agreement

Jacobs Engineering Group and OCP S.A enter into joint venture agreement. The new company, called Jacobs Engineering SA (JESA), will provide OCP with world-class tools to support its industrial strategy.
18/03/2010 More »

Papua New Guinea LNG Project Clears Final Conditions to Proceed

ExxonMobil Corporation's sales and purchase agreements with liquefied natural gas (LNG) buyers and financing arrangements with lenders now complete and its affiliate, Esso Highlands Limited, is proceeding with full execution of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) LNG project.
16/03/2010 More »

KBR Awarded Contract to Provide Services for Toledo Refinery by BP-Husky LLC

KBR awarded contract with BP-Husky to provide engineering, procurement and other project related services for BP-Husky Refining LLC's $400 Million Reformer 3 equipment upgrade of its Toledo Refinery located in Oregon, Ohio.
11/03/2010 More »

Saipem Awarded New Onshore Contracts

Saipem awarded by the Mexican Oil Company PEMEX the EPC contract for two desulphurisation units and two amine regeneration units to be built at two of the client's refineries.
10/03/2010 More »

SNC-Lavalin Awarded Contract for Fertilizer Plant in South Africa

SNC-Lavalin awarded contract by Sasol Nitro to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for new 400,000 Mtpy calcium ammonium nitrate production plant in an existing chemical complex in Secunda, South Africa.
09/03/2010 More »

Arkema Partners EuroBioRef and BIOCORE Projects in the Transformation of Biomass (Bio-refining)

With its long-standing experience in the processing of vegetable raw materials, Arkema now partners the EuroBioRef (European Multilevel Integrated Biorefinery Design for Sustainable Biomass Processing) and BIOCORE (Biocommodity Refinery) projects. Both programs are receiving funding as part of the European Union's 7th Framework program.
02/03/2010 More »

Fluor Provides Engineering Services for Singapore LNG Terminal

Fluor Corporation announces that Samsung C&T Corporation awarded the company an engineering and related management services contract for the Singapore LNG Terminal Project at Singapore's Jurong Island. Samsung is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor to Singapore LNG Corporation Pte Ltd.
01/03/2010 More »

KBR Selected to Provide Support Services to Shell's Chemical Plant and Its Refining Joint Venture Facilities with PMI Norteamérica

KBR awarded contract to provide instrument and electrical support services to Shell's Chemical plant in Deer Park, Texas and its refining joint venture facilities with PMI Norteamérica. KBR will provide instrument and electrical support services to include capital projects, turnarounds and continuing maintenance needs.
25/02/2010 More »

Fluor Performing Feasibility Study for PetroChina Consortium

Fluor Corporation performing feasibility study for joint venture led by PetroChina Company Limited. Proposed refinery and petrochemicals complex will be located in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Proposed 440,000 barrel-per-day refinery and 1.2 million tons-per-year petrochemicals complex will be located in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
23/02/2010 More »

Jacobs Renews 5-year Master Site Agreement Contract with BP in The Netherlands

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that BP Raffinaderij Rotterdam renewed their 5-year Master Site Agreement (MSA) to support small projects work at BP's Rotterdam refinery in The Netherlands. Work will continue to be performed by Jacobs' office in Leiden, The Netherlands, supported by a site-based team.
23/02/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Wins Additional Work for Grassroots Refinery and Petrochemicals Complex in Vietnam

Foster Wheeler AG's Global Engineering and Construction Group awarded contract by Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical Limited Liability Company for provision of technical and commercial services for planned Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemicals Complex. NSRP LLC is a joint venture company comprising PetroVietnam and its international partners.
22/02/2010 More »

KBR Awarded Contract by Matix Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. to Provide Licensing of KBR Purifier(TM) Ammonia Technology

KBR awarded contract by Matix Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited (MFCL) - a Matix Group Company owned by Kanoria family in India - to provide licensing and engineering services for its grassroots 2,200 metric tons per day (MTPD) ammonia plant located in West Bengal, India.
17/02/2010 More »

KBR Awarded Contract by INDORAMA-Owned Eleme Petrochemicals Co. Ltd. for Ethylene Plant Upgrade

KBR awarded contract by INDORAMA-owned Eleme Petrochemicals Co. Ltd (Eleme) to provide technology licensing and engineering services related to the revamp of Eleme's Port Harcourt, Nigeria ethylene plant.
12/02/2010 More »

Air Products Commences Tender Offer to Acquire All Outstanding Shares of Airgas for $60.00 Per Share in Cash

Air Products commences fully financed tender offer for all outstanding common shares of Airgas, Inc. (NYSE:ARG) for $60.00 per share all in cash. Offer and withdrawal rights will expire at 12:00 midnight New York City time on April 9, 2010, unless extended.
11/02/2010 More »

Fluor Wins New DuPont O&M Contract for Nine Sites

Fluor awarded DuPont Engineering construction, maintenance and services contract for nine sites throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. New contract includes seven existing sites in which Fluor already serves, plus two additional sites in Kinston, N.C. and Manati, Puerto Rico.
10/02/2010 More »

Browse Enters Basis of Design Phase

Woodside advises that the Browse LNG Development has now entered the Basis of Design phase. The Basis of Design phase determines the major design parameters which would enable the optimal development of the offshore gas fields and the onshore facilities south of James Price Point.
10/02/2010 More »

INEOS Group Agree Sale of INEOS Fluor to Mexichem Fluor S.A.

INEOS Group to sell fluorochemicals business to Mexichem Fluor S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Mexichem S.A. de C.V.. Deal comprises the international business and assets related to INEOS' fluorochemical operations located in North America, Europe, and Asia.
03/02/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler and SOFCON to Form Joint Venture in Saudi Arabia

Foster Wheeler signs Joint Venture Agreement to form jointly owned Saudi Arabian entity with A. Al-Saihati, A. Fattani and O. Al-Othman Consulting Engineering Company (SOFCON) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
02/02/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Wins Oil Refinery Feasibility Study in Uganda

Fluor announced today that Pasadena Refining System, Inc., a subsidiary of Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., selected Fluor to provide front-end engineering study services for a prospective U.S. refinery project.
02/02/2010 More »

Fluor Selected by Petrobras Affiliate for U.S. Refinery Study

Jacobs Receives Contract from LyondellBasell in The Netherlands

Jacobs Engineering Group receives 2.5 year contract from LyondellBasell to provide engineering services in support of plant changes and small project work at two of its manufacturing sites in The Netherlands.
02/02/2010 More »

Braskem Acquires Sunoco Chemicals in the United States

Braskem S.A., the leading resin producer in the Americas signs agreement with Sunoco, Inc. for the acquisition by Braskem of the polypropylene (PP) business of Sunoco Chemicals, Inc.
02/02/2010 More »

Shell and Cosan Sign MOU to Form Joint Venture in Brazil

Shell International Petroleum Company Limited and Cosan S.A. sign non-binding memorandum of understanding, with the intention to form a circa $12 billion joint venture in Brazil for the production of ethanol, sugar and power, and the supply, distribution and retail of transportation fuels.
01/02/2010 More »

M.W. Kellogg Awarded Contract by Kawasaki Plant Systems for Grassroots Ammonia and Urea Plants

KBR today announced its M.W. Kellogg Ltd. (MWKL) subsidiary has entered into a license agreement and basic engineering design (BED) agreement with Kawasaki Plant Systems, Ltd. (K-Plant) for the Mary Project, anticipated grassroots ammonia and urea plants to be located in Turkmenistan.
29/01/2010 More »

GE Awarded Service Agreement to Support Long Term Gas Turbine Reliability in Thailand

PTT Chemical Public Company Limited signs service agreement with GE to help ensure the long-term reliability of nine GE gas turbines at PTT Chemical's site in Map Ta Phut, Thailand.
28/01/2010 More »

KBR Signs Collaboration Agreement with BP

KBR announced today that it has signed a Collaboration Agreement with BP to promote, market, and execute licensing and engineering services for the slurry bed residue and coal upgrading Veba Combi Cracker (VCC) Technology.
21/01/2010 More »

Braskem Acquires Quattor and Prepares for International Expansion

Braskem announces negotiations for the acquisition of Quattor were concluded today, with the signing of an Investment Agreement by Odebrecht, Petrobras, Braskem and Unipar.
20/01/2010 More »

SABIC Signs Financing Agreements for Joint-venture Petrochemical Complex in China

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) announced today the signing in Beijing of financing agreements by its affiliate SINOPEC SABIC Tianjin Petrochemical Co. Ltd, totalling RMB 18.26 billion (US $2.68 billion), including RMB 12.26 billion (US $1.8 billion) long-term financing, plus an additional RMB 6 billion (US$ 880 million) in working capital facilities to finance its petrochemical complex in Tianjin, China, that is owned jointly by SABIC and SINOPEC.
18/01/2010 More »

BASF and Linde Sign Cooperation Agreement on Flue Gas Carbon Dioxide Capture

BASF and Linde-KCA-Dresden GmbH (LKCA), a Linde Group subsidiary, will jointly market licenses and plants for the capture of carbon dioxide from flue gases in the future. Within the cooperation agreement signed today, BASF will be responsible for the chemical processes for capturing CO2, while LKCA will provide engineering and design as well as the construction of the facilities.
15/01/2010 More »

DuPont and BASF Announce Settlement

DuPont and BASF Plant Science announced they have reached an agreement on a patent infringement dispute. In June 2009, DuPont and BASF filed suit against each other in U.S. Federal Court in the District of Delaware that sought to enforce intellectual property rights relating to biotechnology traits, including traits that provide tolerance to ALS herbicides.
14/01/2010 More »

KBR Awarded Shop Fabricated Piping Contract

KBR announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Houston-based International Alliance Group (IAG) on behalf of Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Ltd. (CCRL) to provide fabricated pipe spools for CCRL's industrial facility in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
14/01/2010 More »

CB&I Awarded Contracts by Petrochina Jilin Petrochemical

CB&I announced today that Petrochina Jilin Petrochemical Company (Jilin) awarded a contract to Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, for the license and process design of a grassroots ethylbenzene and styrene monomer (EB/SM) plant in Jilin, China.
08/01/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler to Supply Heat Recovery Steam Generator in Spain

Foster Wheeler Global Power Group subsidiary awarded contract to design, supply and erect a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) by the Spanish company, REPSOL PETROLEO S.A. The HRSG and auxiliary equipment will be integrated in a cogeneration plant being built at the REPSOL Cartagena Refinery in Murcia, Spain. Foster Wheeler will also provide start-up supervision services.
07/01/2010 More »

Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil Chemical Sign Agreement for Petrochemical Complex in Ras Laffan

Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil Chemical Qatar Limited, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, announced signing an agreement to progress the joint development of a world-scale petrochemical complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. Proposed complex would include the world's largest steam cracker and polyethylene plants, and one of the world's largest ethylene glycol plants.
06/01/2010 More »

Jacobs Receives Basic Engineering Services Contract From Sasol for Commercialization of Tetramerization Technology

Jacobs Engineering Group receives contract from Sasol to provide basic engineering services for the first commercial installation of Sasol's proprietary tetramerization technology. The initial commercial unit is expected to have a combined capacity for 1-octene and 1-hexene of 100,000 tons per year.
05/01/2010 More »

Technip Awarded Front End Engineering Design Contract in Venezuela

Technip awarded by Polimerica a reimbursable contract to perform the front end engineering design (FEED) for new ethylene plant. Technip's operating centre in Rome, Italy, will execute this contract with the assistance of the Zoetermeer office in The Netherlands along with other Technip centres.
05/01/2010 More »