Asia/Pacific
ABB wins LNG transport vessel contract
ABB recently won an order worth $58 million to provide complete power and propulsion systems for six new LNG transport vessels to be built by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) at its shipyard in South Korea.
Aker Midsund delivering separator and scrubber packages for FPSOs
Aker Midsund has signed a contract to deliver four separator and scrubber packages to Hyundai Heavy Industries for the Goliat FPSO.
Alfa Laval wins SEK 50 million refinery order in India
Alfa Laval has received an order for Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers to be used in a refinery in India. The order value is about SEK 50 million and delivery is scheduled for 2011.
Bayer MaterialScience increases downstream presence in China
Bayer MaterialScience has announced plans to invest €110 million to build five new downstream facilities in China by 2012, as part of an ongoing process to serve the booming manufacturing sector in the country.
ITT picks up OI and enhances its global analytical instrumentation business
ITT Corp. has completed its previously announced acquisition of OI Corp. for approximately $29 million. OI is a provider of innovative instrumentation for laboratory and environmental testing in the pharmaceutical, petrochemical, power and industrial markets.
Asian investment creates opportunity for flow and filtration equipment
The expansion of sewage transport, primary treatment and secondary treatment in Asia is creating market opportunities for suppliers of pumps valves, scrubbers, chemicals, controls, filters and other water pollution control equipment.
Engineers assigned for Chinese EPDM plant development
Sinopec Beijing Yanshan Co. has selected LAS Associates and Norton Engineering Consultants to assist in scale up and commercialization of Sinopec’s EPDM solution polymerization technology.
CNOOC's LNG cold energy ASU comes onstream
Air Products announced that China’s first air separation unit (ASU) facility that uses liquefied natural gas (LNG) cold energy to produce industrial gases has been brought onstream.
HHI debuts new FPSO in South Korea
The Usan FPSO can refine 160,000 barrels of oil and 5 million cubic metres of gas daily. It has storage for 2 million barrels of oil. The facility is 320m long, 61m wide, 32m high and weighs 116,000 tons.
Aon launches global energy risk engineering unit
Aon Risk Solutions has consolidated its energy risk engineering assets around the world to form a new unit, known as Aon Energy Risk Engineering.
- Indonesia's Pertamina merges refinery and logistic units 2/5
- Baker Hughes to provide downstream chemicals for Marathon Petroleum refineries, becoming preferred provider across North America 2/5
- About 2 MMbbls of Venezuelan oil being shipped to Spain's Repsol for refining 2/5
- Aster to complete Singapore refinery expansion, berth works in 2H 2026 2/5
- India exports first fuel to Europe since ban on Russian crude-derived products 2/5
- Indonesia discussing oil refinery plan with India's Essar Group 2/5
