Archive for the ‘Construction’ Category
Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. has let a contract to Honeywell UOP and Honeywell Process Solutions to provide a range of process technologies, engineering design, equipment, catalysts and adsorbents, and advanced automation controls for units to be install…
Numaligarh Refinery, a group company of Bharat Petroleum, has received clearance to proceed with the long-planned expansion of its 60,250-b/d Numaligarh refinery in the Golaghat district of Assam in far-northeastern India. India’s Cabinet Committe…
Ineos AG has selected Antwerp, Belgium, as the site for its previously announced plan to build both a grassroots ethane cracker and propane dehydrogenation unit in northern Europe. To be co-located with Ineos’ existing polymer-production sites in …
Croatia’s INA to modernize Rijeka refinery
January 14th, 2019 by Latest News
Croatia’s INA Industrija Nafte DD has approved a more-than $617-million plan to modernize its 90,000-b/d Rijeka refinery along the northern part of the Adriatic Sea as part of an organizational strategy to boost performance and competitiveness of its C…
Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage has secured a €577-million debt financing to enable modernization work on its 76,300-b/d refinery in Vridi district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The purpose of the long-term debt financing funding is to repay historical obli…
NKNK lets contract for methanol unit
January 14th, 2019 by Latest News
PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) has let a contract to Haldor Topsoe to deliver technology licensing and engineering services for a methanol unit to be built at NKNK’s petrochemical complex at Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan. The 500,000-tonne/year unit will be…
CNOOC starts up DHT unit at Huizhou refinery
January 11th, 2019 by Latest News
CNOOC Oil & Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., the refining arm of China National Offshore Oil Corp., has completed successful performance testing of a diesel liquid-phase hydrogenation unit for production of China VI diesel at subsidiary CNOOC Huizhou Petro…
Hanwha Total Petrochemicals, a 50-50 joint venture of Hanwha Group and Total, has let a contract to W.R. Grace & Co. to provide technology licensing for a grassroots polypropylene unit at its Daesan petrochemical complex in Chungnam Province, South…
State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic has commissioned a bitumen plant as part of program designed to modernize and expand operations at the company’s Heydar Aliyev (formerly New Baku) refinery at Baku in Azerbaijan, completing the first phase of the 12…
South Louisiana Methanol (SLM) and new joint-venture partner Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp. are planning a $2.2-billion capital investment to build a grassroots methanol complex in St. James Parish, La. Originally announced in 2013 as a project o…