Middle East
New licensing agreement makes a wastewater splash
GE has completed a new expanded licensing agreement that will allow the company to continue offering high-efficiency reverse osmosis (HERO) systems to help more of its industrial customers increase their water usage efficiency and reuse capacity as the international community works to address mounting shortages of clean water.
Jacobs FEED-ing lube oil expansion project in Saudi Arabia
Jacobs Engineering Group was awarded a contract from Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Co. (Luberef) to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services to support an expansion project at its lube oil refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
Burckhardt delivering compressor to Saudi LDPE-EVA plant
Burckhardt Compression has an order from International Polymers Co. (IPC) in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, to deliver a hyper-compressor for IPC’s low-density polyethylene/ethylene vinyl acetate (LDPE-EVA) plant. The production process is licensed by ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing.
Specialty plastics unit to be built in Abu Dhabi
Borouge has awarded a contract worth $169 million to Hyundai Engineering and Construction of South Korea to build a cross-linkable polyethylene (XLPE) unit at its petrochemical plant in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Jacobs acquires most of Aker Solutions' construction business
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has completed the acquisition of a number of Aker Solutions' operations within its process and construction (P&C) business area.
Slurry-phase hydrocracking—possible solution to refining margins
Opportunity crudes require more hydrogen addition to upgrade orphan product streams into higher-value ‘clean’ products
Convert bottom-of-the-barrel into diesel and light olefins
Integrating residue hydrocracking operations with advanced fluid catalytic cracking optimizes upgrading of heavy crude oils
What are the future fungible transportation fuels?
Alternatives hold promises to decrease dependence on crude oil, but they also uncover other challenges in distribution and engine use
How to fabricate reactors for severe service
Many critical factors are involved in the design and welding of hydrocracking reactors
Minimize carbon footprint from Claus tail-gas units
Reevaluate emissions efficiencies on sulfur-removal operations

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