Process Optimization
Colombia’s Ecopetrol seeks $2 billion from CB&I over refinery costs
Ecopetrol has said bad management at CB&I increased spending on the project by $4 billion, or double the original price tag. Ecopetrol filed the suit before the International Chamber of Commerce.
Odebrecht, Petrobras execs accused in Brazil of downstream corruption
Prosecutors accused Odebrecht of paying bribes to win multibillion-dollar contracts with Petrobras as part of a corruption scheme that implicated dozens of politicians and top executives.
G2X Energy contracts Johnson Matthey, Toyo for Lake Charles methanol
Once complete, the G2X facility, known as Big Lake Fuels Methanol Plant, will produce 1.4 MMtpy of commercial-grade methanol. Construction will take three years to complete.
Central American nations beef up import infrastructure, fuel production amid demand shift
   Methanex’s methanol facility in Trinidad.
Automation Strategies: Data analytics solutions require valid data
Process plants collect enormous amounts of data, both from the sensors connected to the control system and from other sources, including edge devices in the plant and remote devices in the cloud.
Fluor opens craft training center on US Gulf Coast
The new training center supplements Fluor’s ongoing investments in craft workforce development. Fluor currently provides no cost, after-hours training at many of its jobsites.
BASF awards EPCM work to Fluor for revamp of Texas chemicals plant
Fluor previously completed FEED for the project under its North America partnership agreement with BASF and is executing the EPCM under the recent global engineering services agreement.
Axens to supply technology on China’s first plant for crude-to-paraxylene
The complex includes a final-conversion refinery oriented towards the production of naphtha and an aromatic complex to maximize high-purity paraxylene production.
LyondellBasell contracts Fluor for FEED on new Texas chemicals unit
The propylene oxide and tertiary butyl alcohol plant will be the world’s largest of its type and will be located at LyondellBasell’s existing Channelview and Bayport Choate complexes in Texas.
SOCAR awards work to Tecnimont for Azerbaijan polyethylene project
The project’s scope of work envisages the provision of complete engineering services, equipment and material supply, construction activities up to start up and guarantee test run.
- YPF, Eni and XRG sign joint development agreement advancing 12-MMtpy Argentina LNG project 2/12
- Maire launches new technology to produce PTMEG, the key polymer composing the spandex fiber. 2/12
- Verde Clean Fuels announces suspension of development of Permian Basin gas-to-gasoline project 2/12
- Nigeria's Dangote refinery says crude unit and petrol block running at capacity in tests 2/12
- Russia to send crude oil and fuel to Cuba soon, Izvestia reports 2/12
- Vietnam's largest refinery to operate at 120%–125% of designed capacity in Q1 2/12
