Reliance Industries has appointed Texan based Fluor with project management services at its its world scale Jamnagar refining and petrochemical complex in Western India, wehere the company plans one of the largest coke gasification facilities worldwide.

Chemicals giant Bayer plans to get rid of the remaining material science and polymers business: The company wants to focus on life science solutions, bringing its subsidiary Bayer material Science on the stock market by 2016. Already in 2004, the company had divested large parts of its speciality chemicals and polymer business into the new formed Lanxess.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has been granted the first patent for a method to simultaneously extract carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater. This single process provides all the raw materials necessary for the production of synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, together with an international team of researchers, found a way to boost the energy output of biofuel cells by storing and bundling the energy of many spontaneous enzyme reactions.

Engineering mega-project Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) plant, an $18 billion-$19 billion development by Qatar Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell takes the next step, as Shell prepares to take over the engineering and instrumentation data...

The process industry notorious for its enourmous energy consumption. The use of right gear technology and optimization of processes will help companies enhance energy efficiency as well as reduce production costs. However, it is also imperative for them to carefully monitor handling processes, especially while extensively employing gears.

Rohag Singapore a leading manufacturer of components and parts for the oil and gas industry, incorporated an inspection solution from FARO. The solution has enabled the company to achieve 40 per cent time-savings on inspection checks. Read on to know more.

Clariant has signed an agreement for a new partnership with Neste on the supply of renewable hydrocarbons for its product development. In this way, the speciality chemicals company intends to increase the number of products in its portfolio that are derived from renewable raw materials.

In the age of Industrie 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT), Ethernet is also making inroads into process manufacturing. Specialized gateways simplify the transition and create the environment needed for a consistent, rapid and secure flow of information in both a horizontal and vertical direction. Performance is also boosted and plant operators become significantly more flexible.

Enzymes specialist Novozymes want to participate in the US–biofuesl–boom: The company inaugurated an enzyme production in Blair, Nebraska. Creating 100 career positions and 400 construction jobs, the plant will specialize in making world-leading enzymes, a key technology component for both the existing and advanced biofuel markets.