Current Headlines

91. AMEC Awarded $528M New Refinery Contract By KNPC, Kuwait
    12/3/2012

    AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a $528M (£330 million) Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) for a  new oil refinery  at Al Zour, Kuwait

92. ABB Publishes New Leaflet On Variable Area Flowmeters
    11/30/2012

    ABB’s Measurement Products’ business announces publication of an eight-page leaflet on variable area flowmeters (rotameters).

93. DuPont Advances Commercialization Of Cellulosic Ethanol With Iowa Biorefinery Groundbreaking
    11/30/2012

    DuPont recently came one step closer to commercializing advanced biofuels by breaking ground on its cellulosic ethanol facility in Nevada, Iowa.  Expected to be completed in mid-2014, this more than $200M facility will be among the first and largest commercial-scale cellulosic biorefineries in the world

94. Honeywell’s UOP Technology Selected By Petrobras For Offshore Natural Gas Processing In Brazil
    11/28/2012

    UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that its technology has been selected by Petrobras to process natural gas aboard up to eight Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels

95. 'Deep Tunnel' Work Completed
    11/26/2012

    A once-in-a-decade maintenance project in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's (MMSD) Deep Tunnel drew to a conclusion last week, as crews removed the final pieces of floating debris that accumulated in the end of the system near the Jones Island Water Reclamation Facility.

96. TransCanada Acquires Crossfield Gas Storage Facility And CrossAlta Marketing Company
    11/20/2012

    TransCanada Corporation (TransCanada) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire BP’s 40 per cent interest in the assets of the Crossfield Gas Storage facility. In addition, TransCanada will acquire BP’s interest in CrossAlta Gas Storage & Services Ltd., an affiliated marketing joint venture between the two companies

97. Magellan Midstream And Occidental Petroleum Corporation Proceed With BridgeTex Pipeline to Deliver Crude Oil From The Permian Basin To The Houston Gulf Coast Area
    11/19/2012

    Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MMP) ("Magellan") and Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) announced today that they are proceeding with the construction of the previously announced BridgeTex Pipeline to transport Permian Basin crude oil from Colorado City, Texas to the Houston Gulf Coast area

98. Flint Hills Resources To Make Series Of Operational Improvements At Pine Bend Refinery
    11/16/2012

    Flint Hills Resources recently announced plans to make improvements to several processing units at its Pine Bend refinery in Rosemount. The projects are expected to improve reliability, reduce key emissions, and improve the refinery’s ability to convert crude oil into transportation fuel

99. Bechtel's ThruPlus® Technology To Be Used In Kazakhstan Refinery
    11/15/2012

    Bechtel announced today that it 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

100. Delhi Jal Board Awards Veolia Water A Contract To Supply Drinking Water To One Million People In New Delhi (India)
     11/14/2012

     Veolia Water India, a Veolia Water subsidiary, has been awarded a contract by the Delhi Jal Board, the water and wastewater authority for the Indian capital, to manage drinking water production and distribution infrastructure, as well as the water department, for the Nangloi neighborhood in the west of New Delhi.