Fast Company has awarded Heliogen with the ‘World Changing Ideas’ award for its technology that is capable of replacing fossil fuels with sunlight. The technology also boasts of commercially bringing carbon-free, ultra-high temperature heat to traditionally carbon-intensive industries for the first time.

In an ordinary year, PI (Profibus & Profinet International) would already – and once again – have presented its progress on Industry 4.0 work at the Hanover Fair – but this is no ordinary year. Nevertheless, the working group experts are working tirelessly on implementing concepts like the use of Profinet over TSN, fail-safe machine-to-machine communication and information models for vertical communication – virtually and at a safe distance, of course.

Mc Dermott’s CB&I Storage Solutions has been awarded with multiple engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction contracts for setting up 38 tanks and 13 spheres across several locations in Saudi Arabia.

Jacobs Engineering has been awarded a contract to complete a front end engineering design (Feed) study for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant located at the existing Borealis production site in Kallo, Belgium.

DCC LPG has reached agreement with Linde to acquire Tega-Technische Gase und Gasetechnik, its LPG and refrigerant gas distribution business in Germany.

The mega expansion has been made at Moda Midstream’s Texas facilities in the USA. With this move, the total storage capacity at the Moda Ingleside Energy Center and Moda Taft Terminal is approximately 12 million barrels.

ThyssenKrupp EPC contractors Uhde have supplied and commissioned a 3500 tonnes per day urea production plant in Sluiskil, Netherlands, for Yara of Norway. For the plant, which took three years to build, Yara has invested EUR 400 million.

Anellotech announced the completion of the commissioning of its T-Cat-8 pilot plant, and the commencement of the critical development and testing program. The unit is designed to demonstrate the Bio-T-Cat (thermal catalytic biomass conversion) process in a fluid bed reactor with internal process recycle streams and continuous catalyst regeneration.

Asahi Kasei Medical will construct a new plant for the spinning of cellulose hollow-fiber membranes for Planova virus removal filters in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan, increasing annual production capacity by 40,000 m2/year upon completion in May 2019.

McDermott and CB&I have agreed to combine in an all-stock transaction to create a fully vertically integrated onshore-offshore company, with a broad engineering, procurement, construction and installation service. The estimated enterprise value of the transaction is approximately $ 6 billion.