Fluor has been awarded a three year engineering service agreement for Karachaganak Petroleum Operating’s projects situated at the Karachaganak Field in Kazakhstan. The scope of work comprises feasibility studies, front-end engineering design and other engineering services.

Clariant has inaugurated the waste water treatment plant at the zero liquid discharge site, Bonthapally in India. The plant is expected to treat 300 kilolitres of waste water per day.

Chevron Phillips Chemical has successfully completed a low viscosity polyalphaolefins (PAO) capacity expansion at its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas.

With an aim to improve the company’s safety culture, Perstorp established the global safety project – ‘Project Dolphin’ and with the support of Dupont Sustainable Solutions developed a new safety protocol for its seven international manufacturing sites.

Indian companies’ lower spend on research and development (R&D) have been preventing them from making an impact in the innovative drug market. To promote the development of innovative drugs, the country needs to create a corresponding research eosystem, says Global Data.

Early Thursday morning, a fire broke out at Lubrizol’s chemical plant in Rouen, France. No injuries were reported, and the fire has now been extinguished. The incident caused huge plumes of black smoke in the French city. Environmental testing by local authorities indicate no initial findings of acute toxicity from the resulting smoke.

The closure of the initial registration period for the European Union’s REACH chemicals regulation at the end of November 2010 marked the culmination of a period of intense regulatory activity both within Shell and right across the industry.

Indonesia Chemical Alumina (ICA), a joint corporation owned by Showa Denko and mining and metals company Antam, Jakarta, has started commercial operation of its new chemical alumina plant established in the Tayan District, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Solvay and the Chinese soda ash producer Tianjin Soda Ash Plant have recently concluded an agreement under which Solvay will aquire a 30% share of Tianjin's facilities at Bin Hai for 16 million Euro (about US $22.8 million).

Shell’s base chemicals operation in the United States of America (USA) Gulf Coast region has taken advantage of changing hydrocarbon market dynamics to strengthen its advantaged feedstock processing capability and simplify its business. The turnaround in performance and competitive positioning achieved is vital to the success of Shell’s chemicals business in the USA and for future security of supply to customers in North American heartland markets.