Americas
Sapphire Energy, Phillips 66 advance algae crude oil commercialization
Sapphire Energy and Phillips 66 say they will work together to collect and analyze data from co-processing of algae and conventional crude oil into fuels. The goal is to complete fuel certifications to ready Sapphire's renewable crude oil, called Green Crude, for wide-scale oil refining.
Cansolv Technologies renames as Shell Cansolv
Shell Cansolv is a leader in gas treating technologies, with a portfolio of reliable solutions enabling customers to meet stringent product specifications and emission limits at lower costs.
Calumet acquires US lubricants company Bel-Ray
Today, Bel-Ray's specialty lubricants are widely accepted as a brand of choice used in the aerospace, automotive, energy, food, marine, military, mining, motorcycle, powersports, steel and textiles industries.
Freeport LNG chooses CB&I, Zachry Industrial to build first two trains
CB&I and Zachry Industrial have been awarded two contracts, each valued at $2.5 billion, to construct the first two LNG trains of the Freeport liquefaction project in Texas.
Amyris, Total form alliance on renewable fuels
Amyris and Total have formed Total Amyris BioSolutions, a 50-50 joint venture that now holds rights and a license to produce and market renewable diesel and jet fuel from Amyris's renewable farnesene.
Clariant to expand Houston ethoxylation complex
The expansion includes new reactors and additional storage facilities, bringing the overall ethoxylation capacity to more than 125 000 metric tons -- up from 95,000 metric tons at present.
Foster Wheeler wins engineering deal in Chile for new molybdenum refinery
Foster Wheeler will undertake detailed engineering and provide procurement assistance and field engineering services for the new refinery, which is planned to process and refine 16,000 tpy of molybdenum feedstock and yield molybdenum as well as copper, rhenium and sulfuric acid.
OxyChem, Mexichem choose contractor for new US ethylene cracker
CB&I was awarded the $1 billion engineering and construction contract to build an ethylene cracker with 1.2 billion lb/year of capacity at OxyChem's existing complex in Ingleside, Texas.
WR Grace buys Dow polypropylene catalysts unit
The acquisition includes the UNIPOL polypropylene process technology and makes Grace the second largest polypropylene licensor in the world based on the company's installed capacity.
Optimize relief loads with dynamic simulation
Pressure relief analysis is a critical task at the engineering design stage of a grassroots oil refinery project. Relief loads must be determined so that the process units and plant flare systems can be designed.
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