Jackson, Kim M.
HP Construction: Europe
Zimmer AG, a GEA Group member, is building a polyester plant on the Italian island of Sardinia for Equipolymers s.r.l., Milan, Italy. The unit will produce 175,000 metric tpy of polyester chips for ..
HP Construction: Middle East
Uhde GmbH, Dortmund, Germany, has a contract with Liwa Petrochemical Co. LLC, Oman, to build a new ethylene dichloride (EDC) complex in Sohar, Oman. The EDC facility, which will have a 300,000 metric ..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
GE Energy's oil and gas business has been selected to upgrade three propane compressors as a major portion of a debottlenecking project at the Malaysia liquefied natural gas (MLNG) Dua plant in Bitulu..
HP Construction: North America
CB&I has a lump-sum turnkey EPC contract with Valero Energy Corp. to engineer and construct a new amine regeneration unit (ARU), a sulfur recovery unit (SRU) and a new tail gas treating unit (TGTU) ..
HP Construction: South America
Repsol YPF (RYPF) is selecting UOP LLC technology for a new CCR Platforming unit to be installed at the RYPF Complejo Industrial Ensenada (CIE) in Ensenada, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Included in the ..
HP Construction: Europe
Bayer Antwerp N.V. and Shell International Research Maatschappij BV have a licensing agreement. This enables Shell to implement Double Metal Cyanide (DMC) technology to produce polyether polyols using..
HP Construction: Middle East
Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. (FWEL), a Foster Wheeler Ltd. subsidiary, has a front-end engineering and project management services contract with Saudi Aramco for the Khurais full-field development in Sa..
Africa
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has a contract from La Societe Pakistan Maroc Phosphore, S.A., Morocco, a joint venture between Groupe Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP) and Fauji Group, Pakistan. Th..
HP Construction: North America
Chevron Global Refining is upgrading its Pascagoula, Mississippi, refinery's fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) capacity by about 25% from its current 63,000 bpd. This will increase the refinery's g..
HP Construction: South America
ABB has a $360,000 consulting agreement with PDVSA to improve electrical motors and pumps reliability in the Complejo Refinador Paraguaná (CRP) facility in Venezuela. ABB Performance Services con..
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