Archive for the ‘Construction’ Category

Phu My Plastics Production JSC has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC to provide process technology for a grassroots propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit at its operations in Ba Ria, Vung Tau Province, Vietnam.

Borealis has let a contract to a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont SPA for work related to the operator’s previously announced plan to build a grassroots propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant at its existing production site in Kallo, Belgium.

Slavneft-Yaroslavnefteorgsintez (Slavneft-Yanos), part of NGK Slavneft—a joint venture of Gazprom Neft and Rosneft—ramped up crude oil throughputs by 1.5% in 2018 to more than 317,000-b/d at its 300,000-b/d refinery in Yaroslavl, Russia. The boost…

TechnipFMC has completed remaining conditions required to enable work to begin on an earlier awarded contract let by the Egyptian government for delivery of engineering, procurement, and construction services related to the modernization and expansion …

Pakistan Refinery is moving forward with its previously announced plan to upgrade and expand its 55,000-b/d hydroskimming refinery along the coastal belt of Karachi, Pakistan. The proposed $1-billion project aims to upgrade the site into a deep convers…

Swedish refiner Preem AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Corral Petroleum Holdings AB, Stockholm, has let a contract to Aker Solutions ASA to perform tests and studies of carbon-capture technology at its 228,900-b/d refinery at Lysekil, on the west coast…

Bayport Polymers (Baystar)—an equal joint venture of Total’s Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA and the Borealis-Nova Chemicals JV Novealis Holdings—has started construction of its previously announced Borstar Bay3 project at its production s…

ExxonMobil Corp. will build a polypropylene unit at its facility at Baton Rouge that will expand production capacity along the US Gulf Coast by as much as 450,000 tonnes/year. Construction on the project—which will create as many as 600 jobs during the…

National Petrochemical Industrial Co., a Saudi joint-stock company, has let a contract to a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for the revamp of a plant at its 400,000-tonne/year propylene-polyp…

Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical, a joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, has let a contract to Jacobs Engineering to provide preliminary works for the operator’s proposed fuel oil upgrading—or bottom-of-the-barrel—project at its 400,…