Foster Wheeler has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Sasol for its previously announced Fischer-Tropsch wax expansion project at Sasolburg, South Africa. The project will be managed from...
Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP; Casablanca), the global leader in phosphate rock and derivatives market, and Jacobs Engineering have formed an equally owned joint venture, Jacobs Engineering SA (JESA). JESA will provide engineering, project management...
Larsen & Toubro (L&T; Mumbai) says it has secured a contract valued at Rs.20350 million ($447 million) from ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Ltd (OMPL; Mangalore, India) for its previously announced aromatics complex to be built in the Mangalore special...
Sanofi-Aventis (Paris) and Merck & Co., have announced that Sanofi-Aventis has exercised its option to combine its Merial unit with Intervet/Schering-Plough (Boxmeer, the Netherlands), Merck's animal health business, to create a global leader in animal...
DuPont says its Pioneer Hi-Bred business will construct a commercial and parent soybean seed production facility at New Madrid County, MO with an investment of about $55...
Total has, as expected, presented a plan to its French central works council to cease operations permanently at the company's Dunkirk, France refinery, in response to a decline in petroleum product demand. The refinery, a major producer of propylene, has been...
Showa Denko says its Zhejiang Quzhou Juhua Showa Electronic Chemical Materials (Quzhou, China) joint venture is building a 5000-m.t./year high-purity cyclohexanone plant at Quzhou, and the plant is expected to begin commercial production in August 2010...
Dow Formulated Systems, a business unit of Dow Chemical that makes polyurethane and epoxy systems, says it plans to build and operate a plant at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia under a...
Huntsman and Zamil Group (Riyadh) say they have completed construction of a previously announced ethyleneamines joint-venture plant at Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The 27,000-m.t./year plant, which will be operated by Arabian Amines Co., a 50-50 jv, is undergoing...
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