Asia/Pacific
HP Integration Strategies: Making the business case for reliability
The global process industries lose $20 billion, or 5% annual production, due to unscheduled downtime and poor quality. ARC estimates that almost 80% of these losses are preventable. In fact, 40% of th..
HP Water Management: Avoid failures in water projects: Part 1
Your company is planning an expansion—building a new process unit or constructing an entire new plant. Regardless of the scope, the facility staff will specify project requirements, complete the ..
HP Construction: Asia Pacific
Fluor Corp. has a contract award from PETRONAS Gas Berhad, a subsidiary of PETRONAS, to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification termin..
Update on valves used in hydrogen service
Recommended practices can better scrutinize performance issues such as design, packing and metallurgy to mitigate failures.
Reliance Power, Shell to build new LNG terminal on India's east coast
Royal Dutch Shell, Reliance Power and Kakinada Seaports will jointly build a terminal on India's east coast to import liquefied natural gas. The 5 million tpy terminal is expected to start operations by 2014 and its capacity may be doubled to 10 million tons later, the Indian company said in a statement.
Formosa shuts top Taiwan naphtha cracker amid weak downstream margins
Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical, Asia's top naphtha buyer, has shut the biggest of its three naphtha crackers in Mailiao due to low petrochemical margins, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
WR Grace buys Noblestar catalysts unit in China
W. R. Grace & Co. has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Noblestar Catalysts, a China-based manufacturer of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts. The deal has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, but is subject to the satisfaction of other closing conditions.
Air Products to supply gases for China LCD facility
Air Products said Tuesday that it signed a long-term contract with Xiamen Tianma Microelectronics to supply bulk gases, including ultra high-purity nitrogen and oxygen, hydrogen, argon, and helium, at a new facility in China. Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.
UOP opens gas processing membrane production center in Malaysia
UOP has opened a manufacturing and operations center in Penang, Malaysia, to produce natural gas membrane elements to support the growing natural gas market. Removing impurities is necessary before the gas can be used as fuel, as a source for petrochemicals or distributed by pipeline.
Technip to buy Shaw energy, chemicals business
Shaw is selling the segment to Technip for $300 million in cash, adding that further collaborations between the two companies are possible for Shaw’s core business units. The companies further agreed to work toward developing future business relationships involving Shaw’s core business units.
- Swift Fuels advances light gas (LG2F™) demonstration plant plans in Louisiana (U.S.) 9/8
- Kisuma enables rubber manufacturers to enhance durability and sustainability with DHT™-4 additives 9/8
- Altalto awards Maire engineering study contract for 23,000-tpy sustainable aviation fuel plant 9/8
- Iraq in talks with ExxonMobil on Asian refining capacities 9/8
- TotalEnergies sees Brent-Dubai crude price gap remaining negative, making sweet grades more attractive to Asian refiners 9/8
- Chevron seeks diversified approach to refinery investments 9/8
