Construction
LNG consortium to build France regasification plant
Engineering firms SENER and Techint have signed a contract with EDF to develop a regasification plant in Dunkerque, France. The firms were awarded the EPC contract as part of the TS LNG consortium made up of SENER and Techint. Specific figures were not disclosed.
FMC picks design firm CH2M HILL for engineering on Wyoming soda ash expansion
Construction and design firm CH2M HILL said Thursday that it was selected by FMC Corp. to provide engineering and procurement services for FMC's soda ash expansion in Granger, Wyoming.
Foster Wheeler wins Spanish engineering award for refinery expansion work
Foster Wheeler won the 2010 national prize in industrial engineering from the Spanish National Society of Professional Industrial Engineers for refinery expansion work completed for Repsol Petróleo S.A. in Cartagena (Murcia), Spain.
India refiner touts Honeywell wireless technology in FCC expansion
Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) has implemented wireless mobile stations from Honeywell Process Solutions as part of its $200mn fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) project at its Mumbai refinery, officials said on Thursday.
Fine-tune ethylene unit startups
Advanced modeling methods provide useful information on operating main compressor system and feeds
HP Viewpoint: Why technology choice does matter
These days, the idea of optimizing comes up everywhere. We personally optimize our time, our retirement portfolio, our route to work, our diets, our energy use at home, and a host of other things. In ..
HP Construction: North America
KBR has been awarded a $65 million contract by Chevron Products Co. to execute a base-oil expansion project at Chevron’s refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The construction project includes bui..
HP Construction: South America
Technip, in consortium with Tomé Engenharia, was awarded a lump-sum turnkey EPC contract by Petrobras for five new units at the Presidente Bernardes Refinery in Cubatão, state of São Pa..
HP Construction: Europe
Evonik Industries has started up a new facility to produce high-purity isobutene at its site in Antwerp, Belgium. The new plant, which involved investment of tens of millions of euros, can produce up ..
HP Construction: Middle East
GS Engineering & Construction Corp. has signed a $556 million deal to build a gas storage facility in Kuwait. Under the deal with the state-run Kuwait National Petroleum Co., GS Engineering will compl..
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