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Process Optimization

HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Honeywell has been selected to upgrade the safety and control system at Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname’s refinery to Honeywell’s Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) solution. The u..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Saipem has signed a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical for the naphtha and aromatics package of the PETRORabigh II Project, expan..

HP Construction: Asia Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) has awarded Technip a contract to supply a license, basic-engineering package, and engineering and procurement services for the refinery offgas cracker (ROGC) plant. Thi..

HP Construction Profile: Texas-based refinery has a long history

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

The Valero Port Arthur Refinery was commissioned in 1901 and has had many process additions and improvements throughout its history (see pg. 38). In 2001, nearly $850 million was invested in a delayed..

What you don’t know can hurt you

Littelfuse: Glenney, J.

Be certain systems are safely grounded

Engineering and construction news

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

CB&I to buy Shaw GroupCB&I has agreed to acquire Shaw Group, a US-based engineering company primarily focused on serving clients in the power generation and government services sector. The acquisition..

Technip formally acquires Shaw energy, chemicals

Proceeds from the sale were approximately $290 million in cash, Shaw said. The completion of this deal also satisfies one of the conditions of the recently announced agreement for CB&I to acquire Shaw.

Hebei Haiwei to license CB&I propylene technology for new China plant

The unit will use the CATOFIN propane dehydrogenation process from Lummus Technology, which employs Süd-Chemie’s latest catalyst to produce 500,000 tpy of propylene. The plant is expected to start up in 2015.

Jacobs wins work on RSPL India soda ash project

Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs is providing detailed engineering, project management, procurement and construction supervision services for RSPL’s greenfield project. The capacity of the facility is estimated at 500,000 tpy of light soda ash. Officials did not disclose the contract value.

Iracore to supply lined pipe, fittings to Shell Canada for Alberta oil sands use

The agreement covers three years and provides Shell access to a number of Iracore’s proprietary products and services for use at the Muskeg River and Jackpine oil sands mining projects. Iracore has provided lined pipe solutions to major oil sands mine developers in northern Alberta for over a decade.