SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Aramco and Total select Axens Technologies
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France www.axens.net) has been awarded a design package for the new, 400,000 bbl/d, world class, full-conversion refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The refining and petrochemical complex is scheduled to start-up in 2012. Among the units...

Saudi Aramco/Total confirm Jubail Refinery Project
The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Total (Paris, France; www.total.com) have both confirmed their decision to invest in a 400,000 bbl/d world-class, full-conversion refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia...

Chemicals industrial city planned for Abu Dhabi
The International Petroleum Investment Company (Abu Dhabi, U.A.E) and Borealis AG (www.borealisgroup.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding along with Abu Dhabi Investment Council to prepare jointly for the first phase of the development of...

Siemens I&S receives cement contract
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group has received an order from Orascom Construction Industries (OCI; Cairo, Egypt), to...

A second major plant for a new PO process
Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Co., a 50:50 joint venture of Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, both Saudi Arabia) and Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; edlinks.che.com/6901-537), is constructing a new plant to produce 200,000 m.t./yr of propylene...

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KUWAIT

JGC wins major EPC contract for refinery in Kuwait
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) and its partner GS Engineering & Construction (GS), Korea, announced today that they received Award Notification by Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC) to provide engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and...

Chementator: Methane-to-gasoline process nears commercialization
Synfuels International, Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; edlinks.che.com/7370-561) plans to commercialize its patented gas-to-liquids (GTL) process in Kuwait through a newly formed partnership with Kuwait’s Aref Energy Holding (edlinks.che.com/7370-562). In contrast...

Dow Chemical and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait announce JV
The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow; Midland, Mich., USA; www.dow.com) and Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC; and Kuwait City, Kuwait; www.pic.com.kw), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC; www.kpc.com.kw), today announced plans to form a 50/50...

U.A.E.

Newsfront: Chemistry for Construction
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information At 2,064 ft as of this past April, the unfinished Burj Dubai skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates is the tallest man-made structure on earth...

Calendar - April
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Calendar - February
NORTH AMERICA Pittcon 2007. The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Phone: 412-825-3220; Web: pittcon.org Chicago, Ill.Feb. 25–Mar. 2   23rd International Pump Users Symposium and...

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QATAR

Axens wins Qatar refinery contracts
Qatar Petroleum (www.QP.com) has awarded Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) basic engineering design contracts for the new 250,000 bbl/d Al Shaheen petroleum refinery to be built in the Messaieed Industial City in Qatar. Axens will supply the...

Honeywell announces $9.1-million control valve contract for Qatar GTL plant
Honeywell Process Solutions (www.honeywell.com/ps) has announced a $9.1-million agreement to provide control valves for the new integrated Pearl Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) plant in Qatar, a partnership between Qatar Shell GTL Ltd. (Shell) and Qatar...

OTHER

Beckhoff opens branch office in Turkey
The opening of a subsidiary in Istanbul last month signifies a continuation of Beckhoff Automation's (Verl, Germany; www.beckhoff.com) export offensive. After several years of successful presence in the Turkish market through a distributor, Beckhoff intends...

Lummus Technology awarded heater contract
Lummus Technology (The Woodlands, Tex.), a CB&I company (www.cbi.com), has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $140 million...

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...

Turkish Wastewater-Treatment Plant Increases Capacity and Lowers Costs with Siemens’  Program
 Siemens has received a 5.5 million euros award to provide a wastewater-treatment system and associated piping, instrumentation and engineering to the Inegol Industrial Zone in Inegol, Turkey.  The system will...

Chementator: This CO₂ -Recovery Process Set to Enhance EOR
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; edlinks.che.com/7368-533) is marketing a new process that captures carbon dioxide from flue gas (FG) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The KM-CDR process uses a proprietary amine-based solvent (KS-1) in a...

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