Wison Engineering announced that it has been awarded an EPC contract for a new liquefied natural gas project by Astana Trans Oil.

At this year’s easyfairs Schüttgut, Rembe will be presenting EVA High End, a new evaluation electronic system for the company's C-Lever direct flow meter and Uniband belt weigher. Schüttgut 2012 takes place on November 7 and 8, 2012, in Dortmund, Germany

GAIL (India) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with State Oil Company of Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR). Under the MoU, GAIL and SOCAR intend to jointly pursue LNG opportunities through capacity booking, LNG procurement and promotion of LNG projects globally.

The time is rapidly approaching when oil, gas and coal will no longer be able to satisfy worldwide demand for energy. In response, politicians are forcing the development of renewable and alternative sources of energy. As is the case in conventional process engineering, pumps have a crucial role to play.

With an aim to strengthen industrial cooperation between the UAE and Japan and support the development of new UAE-Japan blue ammonia supply chains, Adnoc-Fertiglobe has delivered its third shipment to Japan this year.

At Sumitomo Chemical’s Ehime Works situated at Niihama city, Ehime, in Japan, the company will install new production lines to double the capacity for high-purity sulfuric acid and at Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co.’s Iksan plant, the company will increase the capacity for high-purity ammonia water. The high-purity chemicals will be used for the semiconductor industry.

OMV Petrom has selected Axens to supply the PolyFuel technology for its project at the Petrobrazi Refinery. The capacity of the project is 200,000 tons per year.

The jumbo merger of the gas giants is imminent: After tough negotiations, Linde and the US competitor Praxair have agreed on the conditions of the fusion. The merger will see the creation of a new Number One of global gas companies…

India’s diversity is one that is very well-known. Even the food habits of its people vary from region to region. For this reason, it is very interesting to see how the food and beverage sector will take on these distinct challenges. Additionally, small towns around rural areas have become the center of activity. Here’s more on how this sector will change over the coming years.

The BBC has recognised the world’s largest liquid air energy storage (Laes) technology plant near Manchester, a facility that has received automation support from Bristol based automation experts, Optimal Industrial Automation.