Cleantech wins $13M equipment order for China ethylene glycol project
The order covers parts and equipment including washing, distillation, purifying, dehydration, refining and other columns, along with storage containers, heat exchangers and carbonation reactors that will be used in a project to transform glycol calcium carbide furnace tail gas into ethylene glycol.
January 6, 2015Continue reading...KBR to revamp Mosaic ammonia plant in Louisiana
KBR’s “lean FEED” approach will debottleneck the plant and increase Mosaic’s ammonia production capacity by 20% at their plant located on the banks of the Mississippi, just south of Baton Rouge.
January 5, 2015Continue reading...EQUATE debottlenecks Kuwait polyethylene plant
EQUATE executed the first phase. EQUATE’s current capacity of polyethylene is 825,000 tpy, and will reach almost 1 million tpy once the debottlenecking project is completed during 2016.
January 5, 2015Continue reading...Golar to develop Africa’s first floating LNG project located off Cameroon
Golar LNG Ltd. today announced the signing of an agreement for the development of an FLNG export project off the coast of Cameroon.
December 29, 2014Continue reading...OxyChem, Mexichem break ground on new ethylene cracker in Texas
Construction of the project at OxyChem’s complex in Ingleside, Texas, is now underway. The cracker remains on schedule to become commercially operational in early 2017.
December 22, 2014Continue reading...Sasol secures $4B in financing for new Louisiana ethane cracking project
In October, Sasol announced its final investment decision relating to a $8.9 billion petrochemical complex, which consists of an ethane cracker that will produce 1.5 million tpy of ethylene.
December 22, 2014Continue reading...INEOS licenses polypropylene process technology for new China project
The 300,000 tpy Innovene PP plant in Changzhou will produce a wide range of polypropylene products to serve the growing market in China.
December 22, 2014Continue reading...Woodside buys Apache’s stake in Wheatstone, Kitimat LNG projects
Apache Corp. is to sell its interest in two LNG projects, Wheatstone LNG and Kitimat LNG, along with accompanying upstream oil and gas reserves, to Woodside Petroleum for a purchase price of $2.75 billion.
December 17, 2014Continue reading...REG finishes upgrades to Iowa biodiesel refinery
The upgraded process, including distillation, removes impurities and leaves behind a very pure form of biomass-based diesel. The final product far exceeds industry quality standards, while meeting REG’s more rigorous REG-9000 specifications. The fuel also performs better in colder temperatures.
December 16, 2014Continue reading...Russian refiner upgrades complex with Chevron Lummus technologies
The hydrocracker unit was commissioned in January 2014 and the base oil unit in December 2014. The commissioning of the two units enabled OJSC TANECO to produce 1.2 million tpy of Euro-V diesel fuel, 500,000 tpy of aviation kerosine and 190,000 tpy of Group II/III base oil.
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