Total has signed an agreement with KKR-Energas to acquire its two gas-fired combined cycle power plants (CCGT) in the North and East of France, which represent an electricity generation capacity of approximately 825 megawatts (MW).

Fluor announced today that Stork, part of the company’s Diversified Services segment, was awarded a five-year contract renewal by Ecopetrol to operate and maintain its surface facilities on the Cusiana and Cupiagua gas fields in Colombia.

Thanks to the investment in a larger fluid bed system, a generic manufacturer now produces the same amount of drugs in half the time. This not only shortens production time, but also lowers expenses for quality assurance and documentation.

Jacobs Engineering received a contract from Encina Chemicals to provide operations readiness (OR) support services for its new benzene toluene xylene (BTX) processing plant in Gillette, Wyoming.

Science, industry and politics are joining forces to turn exhaust gases into chemical raw materials —  Some 20 million tons of CO2 are at stake — this is the amount of greenhouse gas Germany's steelworks emit into the atmosphere every year. No surprise then that experts see great potential for the material use of waste gases. Can the mammoth project “smokestack chemistry” succeed? The Carbon2Chem conference is campaigning for a cooperation between the different players.

Ube Industries has developed torrefied pellets carbonized from woody biomass, for use in coal-fired power plants as a co-firing ratio of 10 % or more (calorie basis). The torrefied pellets will facilitate the use of woody biomass as a renewable energy source.

With a strong value chain from manufacturing via petrochemicals all the way to modern bio-based materials, the province of Ontario is Canada's economic an industrial powerhouse. But what is behind this amazing success story? This interview presents you the views of the Minister, Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure (MEDEI), Ontario, Canada, Brad Duguid

As bioethanol booms in the Americas, special technology is needed to untap the full potential of this renewable fuel. Mitsubishi Chemical and Taiyo Nippon Sanso announced plans to jointly market a dehydration system using Mitsubishi's Zebrex zeolite membranes for bioethanol production processes in the US.

Following the start of a demonstration project in Herten, Germany, in April 2018, Asahi Kasei launched an alkaline-water electrolysis demonstration project in Soma, Fukushima, Japan. The new project aims at the development of a large-scale production system for green hydrogen by using power input from renewable energy sources.

The concept of the new agitated reactor by Ekato is ideal for multiphase reactions with liquid, gases and solids.