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Economic Indicators
BUSINESS NEWS
PLANT WATCH
Stamicarbon wins contract
for urea plant in China
December 6, 2012 - Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard,
the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the
Licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont
S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it),
has been awarded a contract for a new urea
plant with Inner Mongolia Erdos Chemical
Industry Group Co. in China. The plant will
have a capacity of 2,860 metric tons per day
(m.t./d) of prilled urea and will be located in
Qi Pan Jing, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. Startup
is planned for 2014.
AMEC is awarded a contract for
a new refinery in Kuwait
December 4, 2012 - AMEC (London, U.K.; www.
amec.com) has been awarded a $528-million
project-management consultancy contract
by the Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC)
for a new petroleum refinery at Al Zour, Kuwait.
When completed in 2018, the multi-billion dollar
refinery is expected to be the largest in the
Middle East and will increase Kuwait's refinery
capacity by 615,000 bbl/d.
Tecnimont lands contract for a lowdensity
polyethylene plant in Mexico
December 4, 2012 - Maire Tecnimont S.p.A.
says that its main subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A.
(Rome, Italy) has been awarded a contract
by Etileno XXI Services B.V. for the realization
of a 300,000-ton/yr low-density polyethylene
(LDPE) unit, to be constructed within the Etileno
XXI petrochemical complex. The LDPE unit will
be built using the Lupotech T technology of
LyondellBasell industries and the value of the
contract is $191.4 million. The engineering and
procurement activities will be completed in
the 4th Q 2014.
Sasol commences FEED phase for GTL
and ethane cracking complex
December 3, 2012 - Sasol (Johannesburg, S.
Africa; www.sasol.com) has announced that
it will proceed with the front-end engineeringand-design
(FEED) phase for an integrated, gasto-liquids
(GTL) facility and an ethane cracker
with downstream derivatives, at its Lake Charles
site in southwest Louisiana. The GTL facility, said
to be the first of its kind in the U.S. will produce
4-million ton/yr, or 96,000 bbl/d of high-quality
transportation fuel, including GTL diesel and
other value-adding chemical products. Current
project costs for the GTL facility are estimated at
$11-14 billion. The GTL project will be delivered
in two phases, with each phase comprising
48,000 bbl/d. The first phase is planned to begin
operating within the 2018 calendar year and
the second phase in 2019.
Toyo wins world's largest single-train
urea plant in Nigeria
December 3, 2012 - Toyo Engineering Corp.
(Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) and
its consortium partner Daewoo Nigeria Ltd. will
jointly build what is said to be the world's largest
single-train urea plant for Indorama Eleme Fertilizer
and Chemicals Ltd. The proposed facility will
be built at Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals
Ltd.'s (IEPL) existing petrochemicals complex
at Port Harcourt, River state, Nigeria, and is
scheduled for startup by the 4th Q of 2015. The
proposed facility will manufacture 2,300 ton/d
of ammonia and 4,000 ton/d of granulated
urea from natural gas feedstock employing
technology licenses from KBR (Houston; www.
kbr.com) and Toyo.
JGC awarded contract for CO2 capture,
storage and compression facilities
November 28, 2012 - JGC Corp. (Yokohama,
Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has received a contract
from Japan CCS Co. to construct the core
facilities at a carbon-dioxide capture and
storage (CCS) technology-demonstration
project. The site for the demonstration project is
located adjacent to an oil refinery in Tomakomai,
Hokkaido, owned by Idemitsu Kosan Co. The
contract calls for the engineering, procurement,
construction and commissioning work for
a yearly capacity of 200,000 ton/yr of CO2.
Performance testing is scheduled to be
completed at the end of January, 2016.
Foster Wheeler awarded contract for
Lanxess' EPDM plant in China
November 26, 2012 - Foster Wheeler AG (Zug,
Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary
of its Global Engineering and Construction
Group has been awarded a contract by
Lanxess Changzhou Co. for a new ethylene
propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber
plant to be built at the Changzhou Yangtze
Riverside Industrial Park at Changzhou, Jiangsu
Province. Foster Wheeler is currently executing
the FEED for this facility, which will be designed
to produce 160,000 m.t./yr of EPDM rubber
with an expected startup in 2015.
KBR to execute oil-sands tailingsmanagement
project in Canada
November 20, 2012 - KBR was awarded two
contracts for Syncrude Canada Ltd. to execute
module fabrication and field construction
for its Fluid Fine Tailings - Centrifuging Full
Scale Plant (FFT-CFSP) in Fort McMurray, Alberta,
Canada. Plant startup is planned for 2015.
The process is designed to pump fluid fine
tailings (the byproduct of the bitumen extraction
process) through a series of centrifuges to
separate the maximum amount of water from
the solids. Released water will be recycled for
plant operations and the soil product of the
centrifuge process will have sufficient density
and strength to be placed in deposits, then
capped and reclaimed.
Bechtel's ThruPlus Coking technology to
be used in Kazakhstan refinery
November 16, 2012 - Bechtel (Houston;
www.bechtel.com) has signed a license
agreement with JSC Pavlodar Oil Chemistry
Refinery (POCR) for a major modernization
and process design of a delayed coking unit
(DCU) complex in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. The
DCU complex will use Bechtel's ThruPlus Coking
technology to significantly increase the refinery's
feed processing capabilities from 600,000 to
925,000 m.t./yr. It will also make high-quality
liquid products for transportation fuel use and
petroleum coke suitable for further processing
and use in the aluminum industry.
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Hovione and Solvias announce a
collaboration for improved drug solubility
November 28, 2012 - Hovione (Lisbon, Portugal;
www.hovione.com) and Solvias (Basel, Switzerland;
www.solvias.com) are planning a collaboration
focused on the development and supply of
pharmaceutical co-crystals. This strengthens
Hovione's experience in overcoming drug
delivery challenges with Solvias' expertise in
solid-state chemistry.
BASF completes acquisition of
Becker Underwood
November 28, 2012 - BASF SE (Ludwigshafen,
Germany; www.basf.com) has completed the
acquisition of Becker Underwood from U.S.-based
Norwest Equity Partners, for a purchase price
of $1.02 billion. Most businesses of Becker
Underwood will join the newly established
global business unit Functional Crop Care as
part of BASF's Crop Protection div. Within this
new unit, BASF will merge its existing research
and development, and marketing activities in
the areas of seed treatment, biological crop
protection, plant health, and others, with those of
Becker Underwood. Becker Underwood's animal
nutrition business will be integrated into BASF's
Nutrition & Health div.
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Dorothy Lozowski
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