Jackson, Kim M.
Industry developments
HPI market continues robust growth cycle
HP Construction: North America
  Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has a contract from Fort Hills Energy L.P. to provide engineering design and procurement services for the utilities and off-sites (U&O) component of the bitumen pr..
HP Construction: South America
  Borealis is investing R$18 million in the acquisition of a new extrusion line to enlarge its Itatiba (SP) plant. Borealis has two production units in Brazil located in Itatiba (SP) and Triunfo..
HP Construction: Europe
  BASF started its expanded plant for medium molecular weight polyisobutene (MM PIB) in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The result is an increase in capacity of 6,000 metric tpy of MM PIB. The company no..
HP Construction: Middle East
  Cryostar, a subsidiary of The Linde Group, has a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries to supply on-board boil-off gas reliquefaction plants for five LNG tankers to be built by 2008. The moder..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
  BASF's new engineering plastics compounding plant at its Pudong site in Shanghai, China, came onstream in March 2007. It has a capacity of 45,000 tpy. With the new plant, BASF's total compoundi..
HP Construction: North America
  Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has two engineering, procurement and fabrication packages from BP Products North America Inc. for its planned $3 billion Canadian heavy crude refinery upgrade prog..
HP Construction: South America
  Aker Kvaerner is providing the basic and detailed engineering design for offshore procurement services for PetroquímicaSuape's new purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant, to be built ..
HP Construction: Europe
  Aker Kvaerner has a contract with Sevan Production Services Ltd. to install the Sevan Hummingbird floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit. The FPSO will be installed at the Ches..
HP Construction: Middle East
  Borouge has contracts valued at approximately $3 billion for Borouge 2, the major expansion project at the company's production facilities in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. The..
- China's March jet fuel exports jump 77.4% from a year earlier 4/18
- Nigeria strikes deal with Shell to supply $3.8-B methanol project 4/18
- Singapore fuel oil stockpiles rebound to 8-week high on higher imports 4/18
- Clariant launches new CATOFIN 312 propane dehydrogenation catalyst 4/18
- Solvay inaugurates new blowing agent production unit in Rosignano, Italy 4/18
- Meridian Energy Group’s Davis Refinery Project in North Dakota (U.S.) will be the world’s first net-zero carbon refinery 4/17
