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...
Air Liquide says it will invest approximately €40 million ($54.4 million) in a 1,200-m.t./day air separation plant at Yichun, Heilongjiang Province...
Engineering group Maire Tecnimont (Rome) has agreed to acquire the entire share capital of Sofipart S.r.l, a company that controls 76.1% of KTI Management, which, in turn, owns 75% of Technip KTI S.p.A, an international process engineering company based in...
The company says it has cushioned the impact of the economic crisis....
Shell says it has completed major construction activities on its ethylene plant at Bukom Island, Singapore and that it has begun commissioning the facility. The plant has capacity for 800,000 m.t./year of ethylene. Construction of the facility required 39...
Fluor says it is currently doing a feasibility study for the previously announced refinery and petrochemicals joint venture with PetroChina, Qatar Petroleum (QP), and Shell at...
The plant will form part of an ammonia-urea complex....
KBR has been awarded a contract by Eleme Petrochemicals Co. (Port Harcourt, Nigeria) to revamp the company's 1995-vintage 550,000 m.t./year ethylene plant at Eleme, near Port Harcourt. Eleme is a subsidiary of Indorama Group (Jakarta). The plant was...