ALGERIA

Africa’s largest desalination plant inaugurated
A persistent shortage of potable water in the City of Algiers, Algeria was eased today as the $250-million Hamma Seawater Desalination Plant (SWDP) was officially opened by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Jeff Garwood president and CEO, GE Water...

SOUTH AFRICA

Foster Wheeler studies CTL feasibility for Sasol
Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) announced that its South African subsidiary Foster Wheeler South Africa (Pty) Limited, part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been selected by Sasol Technology (Pty) Ltd to perform a...

EGYPT

Invensys signs Egyptian JV
Invensys Process Systems (London; www.invensys.com) have joined ENPPI and GASCO in a joint venture (JV) to create Invensys Process System Egypt the first, “Industrial Automation Engineering Center of Excellence” in the...

Siemens I&S receives cement contract
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S; Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/cement) has received an order from Orascom Construction Industries (OCI; Cairo, Egypt), to engineer and supply all the electrical equipment for the new cement...

OTHER

Newsfront: Braving the Building Boom
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information Despite challenges created by a building frenzy in the Middle East and Asia, E&C firms continue to deliver new chemical facilities around the...

UOP processes licensed to Eurochem for new Nigerian plant
According to statements made earlier today by Honeywell Company UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), Viva Methanol Ltd., a Nigerian subsidiary of Eurochem Corp. Pte. Ltd. (Singapore; www.eurochem-corp.com), has selected the UOP/Hydro MTO and Total...

The economic outlook: 2008 and beyond
“This is the first time since the early 1970s there have been four strong years in a row; every piston of the economic engine was running,” says Dr. Thomas K. Swift, chief economist for the American Chemistry Council “We have just come off...

Chemical Processing Industry Information Now More Accessible
Chemical Engineering announced today the release of its new beta website.  The completely retooled site and online information service will provide up-to-the-minute news and in-depth technical expertise from Chemical Engineering’s global team of...