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Process Optimization

HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

MODEC, Inc., has commissioned a UOP Separex membrane system for processing natural gas on a new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The FPSO is using the Honeywell UOP Separex m..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has a contract to provide detailed engineering, procurement support and support services during construction of a new ester production plant at OXEA GmbH’s existing ..

HP Construction: Africa

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd. (KPRL) has implemented a new solution from IBM to increase the productivity and efficiency of the company’s oil refinery operations in East Africa. The agreement w..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Tecnimont S.p.A., the main operating company of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A., has an engineering procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract on a lump-sum turnkey basis for a new fertilizers..

HP Construction: Asia Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Davy Process Technology Ltd., a Johnson Matthey company, and The Dow Chemical Co.’s Oxygenated Solvents Business, have announced that Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Co., Ltd., has selected LP Oxo S..

KBR wins technology, engineering design deal for Egyptian ammonia plant

KBR was awarded a contract by Tecnimont for the license and basic engineering design (BED) of a new ammonia plant to be built by Chemical Industries Holding Co. (Kima) in Aswan, Egypt. The plant will support regional development plans in Aswan as well as Egypt’s drive to build modern fertilizer complexes.

Foster Wheeler wins EPCm for BP gas separation project in Scotland

Foster Wheeler has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract for BP Exploration’s enhanced gas separation project (EGSP) in Scotland. The project is expected to be completed in 2013.

Jacobs awarded design work for sulfuric acid coolers in Bulgaria

Jacobs announced Tuesday its Canada-based Chemetics unit in Pickering, Ontario, was awarded a design and fabrication contract by Aurubis Bulgaria for two proprietary designed sulfuric acid coolers to be installed at its acid plant in Pirdop, Bulgaria.

Honeywell picks Jacobs to engineer Louisiana refrigerants expansion

Jacobs has been awarded a contract from Honeywell to provide engineering services for the expansion of its Baton Rouge, La. manufacturing facility. The expansion enables the Baton Rouge facility, one of the leading refrigerants suppliers in the US, to produce Honeywell's new low-global-warming-potential (GWP) blowing agent and propellant on a commercial scale.

Technip wins engineering for Lucius deepwater project in US Gulf

Technip was awarded a lump sum contract by Anadarko Petroleum for the engineering, construction and transport of a 23,000 ton truss Spar hull for their Lucius deepwater project in US Gulf of Mexico. The floating production facility will have a capacity of 80,000 bpd of oil and 450 million cubic feet/day of natural gas.