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 (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... 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... GE Oil & Gas to Supply Ethylene Plant in Saudi Arabia
GE Oil & Gas will supply three compression trains for a new, large-scale ethylene cracker plant in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia, which will have a capacity of 1.165 million ton/yr when it enters commercial service in 2011 for Saudi Chevron Phillips Co... October Plant Watch & Mergers
Plant Watch Liheng adds largest continuous polymerization capacity for PA6 to China September 25, 2007 — Liheng (Changle) Polyamide Technology Co. has contracted Lurgi Zimmer GmbH to build a polyamide-6 (PA6) plant in the province of Fujian. The plant... KUWAIT 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. Calendar - April
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information NORTH AMERICA RFID Journal LIVE Annual Conference and Exhibition. RFID Journal LLC (Melville, N.Y.). Phone: 631-249-4989; Fax: 631-980-4314... 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... Calendar
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information NORTH AMERICA North America and the Carbon Markets. Point Carbon (Washington, D.C.). Phone: 202-349-1120; Web: pointcarbon.com Washington... 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... More Stories »
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