Mc Dermott has bagged an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract from Qatar Energy LNG for the North Field South Offshore Pipelines and Cables Project. The project is part of the North Field Expansion Project, which will help increase the total LNG production in Qatar from the current 77 million tons per annum to 142 MTPA.

Marco Beyl and Johannes-Thomas Grobe have been appointed as CFO and CEO Pharma at Optima Group respectively. They will succeed their predecessors who will be continuing to support the company in an advisory capacity.

Nord presented a wide range of products at Achema in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The focus was on Atex-compliant drive concepts for the process industry and the robust heavy-duty Maxxdrive industrial gear unit, in particular for agitator and mixer applications. Further focal points at the trade fair was the new decentralized Nordac On/On+ frequency inverters, the revolutionary Duodrive geared motors and IE5+ synchronous motors as well as the Nordcon App with Nordac Acces BT.

BASF has introduced its biomass balanced ecoflex, a polybutylene adipate terephthalate that is frequently used in the compounding of biopolymers. The new ecoflex F Blend C1200 BMB has a 60 % lower Product Carbon Footprint than the standard ecoflex grade.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of May 2024’ from all over the world. Right from Carbios holding a groundbreaking ceremony for the world's first pet biorecycling plant to the world’s largest direct air capture plant commencing operations in Iceland, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Univation's Unipol PE Process Technology has been selected by Indian Oil Corporation for its new world-scale production line in Paradip, India. On completion, the unit is expected to produce a nameplate capacity of 650,000 tons per annum of polyethylene.

HIF Global has entered into a land reservation contract with the Port of Açu to develop an e-methanol project in Brazil with an aim to produce up to 800,000 tons per year of e-Methanol.

Lanzatech and Lanzajet have launched Circulair, a revolutionary solution to convert waste, carbon, and renewable power into sustainable aviation fuel. With this solution, the partners aim to accelerate the decarbonization of the aviation industry globally.

Ilaria Fumagalli has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Steriline after her father and Founder of the company Gerardo Fumagalli decided to step down. However, he will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Fumagalli’s son Federico Fumagalli has also been appointed as the firm’s Chief Sales Officer.

Under a three-year contract, Wood will be responsible for operating and maintaining the Freepoint Eco-Systems plant in Ohio, USA. The mega facility will make use of the advanced pyrolysis recycling technology to convert 90,000 tons of end-of-life plastics into pyrolysis oil, through a depolymerization process.