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HP Construction: Europe
  Technip has an engineering, procurement and construction management contract for a "crystal" gas plant project in Etzel, Germany. The contract was awarded by Electricité de France S.A., in..
HP Construction: Middle East
  ABB has a contract worth $223 million from Sonatrach for three gas plants in Algeria. Scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2012, the project includes new compressor trains, re-instr..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
  Samsung Total Petrochemicals Co., Ltd., has selected Merichem Chemicals & Refinery Services' technologies for a heavy-ends byproduct upgrade project at its petrochemical complex in Daesan, Sout..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
Refining outages and gas prices Refining outages can have varying gasoline price impacts, but gaps in federal data limit understanding of these imp..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Styrenics market hit further by economic downturn
From Nexant's latest report, "Styrenics Market Dynamics," the styrenics industry continues to endure difficult market conditions. Over recent years, producers have struggled with a shrinking market ca..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Developing regions increase demand for plastics
Developing nations show increased demand for polyethylene (PE) while the global plastic industry struggles, according to Townsend Solutions. The Middle East, Africa, India, Eastern Europe and South Am..
HP Associations: What happened in Reno didn't stay in Reno
  Contractors, owners and members of academia met at the Construction Industry Institute (CII) conference July 28–30, 2009, in Reno, Nevada. The..
HP Construction: North America
Pearl will be managing the construction of an expansion project for a gas processing plant in North Louisiana. Pearl is currently executing the engineering for the addition of inlet separation, dehydr..
HP Construction: Europe
Hellenic Petroleum has started a new 27,000-bpd fluid catalytic cracking gasoline desulfurization unit in Greece. The unit utilizes CDTECH technologies to produce ultra-low-sulfur gasoline. In additio..
HP Construction: Middle East
  Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Co. finalized the plan to award engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the 13 different process packages of its 400,000-bpd ..
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