Engineering & Design
Foster Wheeler inks engineering, construction pact for Qatargas LNG
Foster Wheeler and joint venture partner Qatar Kentz have signed an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) framework agreement with Qatargas Operating Co. (Qatargas). The agreement will be for three years with an option to extend for a further two years.
Dow, Saudi Aramco select Jacobs for engineering, construction of chemicals venture
Jacobs Engineering Group was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for the Chemicals 1 Envelope of Sadara Chemical Co., the joint venture between Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco. Construction work on the project has already started and is scheduled to be completed by early 2015.
Jacobs to engineer, manage European projects for Shell downstream distribution
Jacobs Engineering Group has received a contract from Shell Downstream Distribution to provide project management and engineering services for Shell's European program. The three-year framework agreement has an optional two-year extension.
Fluor acquires sulfur technology business in Texas from Air Products
Fluor said on Monday that it has acquired Goar, Allison & Associates, a unit of Air Products. The Tyler, Texas-based company provides sulfur technologies for upstream gas plants, downstream refineries and gasification.
Technip forms technology partnership with French atomic energy group
France-based engineering major Technip has signed a strategic partnership agreement for innovation and technology development with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The agreement is valid for an initial period of three years.
Spent caustic management: Remediation review
Understanding of waste components needed for proper spent caustic disposal
Improve material balance in high-purity distillation control
Using dual-composition conserved energy efficiency, reduced reprocessing and allowed higher throughput
Investigation: Failure of a steam generator
In case history, engineers search for root cause of water-side tube failures for a 23-year-old boiler
HP Reliability: One pump fire per 1,000 pump repairs
While performing reliability audits decades ago, pump-failure statistics were made available or could be recovered with relative ease. But even then, the sources were usually kept confidential because..
HP Water Management: Don’t let water be the reason for a turnaround
Several years ago, while arriving onsite during another unit turnaround, I joked to a process engineer at the refinery “I get it. . . every time I ‘turn around,’ you have a turnaround.&..
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