With a ten percent increase of it's Baytown Syngas facility, Oxea strengthens its production capacity for oxo-intermediates and oxo-derivatives.

The port of Khalifa and the adjacent Kizad industrial zone are among the biggest infrastructural mega-projects in Abu Dhabi to date. The declared objective is to turn the region into one of the world’s biggest industrial areas. The hub is set to become increasingly interesting for German companies too.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has a proven track record as a software simulation tool to support detail equipment design and development of entire systems. The pharmaceutical industry is now discovering the advantages of this approach.

The Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) wanted to be able to store and document and access all its technical data and drawings using a documentation node. Here is an overview of the initial scenario, the solution and results obtained by the Group that allowed for efficient access to all the data at any given time.

Mc Dermott’s new 1.2 million square meter fabrication facility will be built within the King Salman International Complex in Ras Al-Khair, Saudi Arabia which is expected to be the largest maritime industries complex in the Middle East.

Jacobs Engineering signed a sulfur recovery technology licensor agreement with Paqell, a joint venture between Shell Global Solutions and Paques, for use of its Thiopaq Oil and Gas technology in refineries and gas treating facilities across the globe.

Located at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park, the 1.2 billion dollar adiponitrile facility has recently received the Environmental Impact Assessment and Safety Condition Review approval. Construction of the facility is expected to commence this year.

Inovyn announced the completion of its new large scale potassium hydroxide (KOH) production facility at its Antwerp/Lillo Site (Belgium).The first production run of membrane quality KOH for supply to customers took place during the first week of October, following successful start-up of the facility.

PKN Orlen will make use of UOP’s Q-Max and Phenol 3G technologies for its Poland-based phenol unit. The facility is expected to produce 200,000 metric tonnes of phenol annually. UOP will also provide a cumene unit and a phenol unit with alpha methyl styrene hydrogenation to the project.

The Dow Chemical Company and K2 Pure Solutions (K2 Pure) have celebrated the successful start-up of a new chlor-alkali plant at Dow’s Pittsburg, California site. The new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will produce bleach to serve municipal water treatment facilities in Northern California. In addition, the plant will supply Dow’s Pittsburg operations with chlorine for the manufacture of crop protection products and other materials.