Brazilian MV24 project:
MAN: Successful commissioning of MAN compression
modules
Units have taken up activity in the Brazilian Santos Basin
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2014, Dec 22 + + + The two
compression modules on board of FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba MV24 have been
successfully commissioned for MODEC, the EPC contractor specialized in
engineering, procurement, construction and installation of FPSOs. After a
design, engineering and manufacturing period of only 18 months, the high
pressure modules by MAN Diesel &Turbo in Switzerland will be deployed on
the FPSO operated by MODEC for Brazilian oil multi Petrobras, maintaining
the field pressure thus maximizing oil product ... moreion. |
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Sulzer to Supply Six API 610 Barrel Casing Pump Sets
to INPEX
Australia
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Dec. 10, 2014 + + +
Sulzer has been contracted as the pumps provider for the critical liquids
removal system of the INPEX-operated Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG)
project in September 2014. The pumps will be installed on the offshore
Central Processing Facility (CPF). Sulzer will deliver six large API 610
(ISO 13709) Barrel Casing Pump sets in 2015 ... more |
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BASF launches FCC catalysts testing and research laboratory
in Heidelberg,
Germany
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Dec 2, 2014 + + + BASF’s Refining Catalysts business
today launched a new fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts testing and
research laboratory at the hte GmbH (hte) site in Heidelberg, Germany. hte
is a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE and a leading provider of high
throughput technology and services for enhancing research and development
productivity.
The new laboratory will provide physical and chemical
analyses and characterizations of hydrocarbons and FCC catalysts, fine
particles and slurries ... |
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Pipe Cold Bending Machines from
Schwarze-Robitec
Bending the Costs Downward
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Dec 02, 2014 + + +
There are many kilometres of pipe on oil platforms, complex chemical
plants, refineries and large power stations. All feature similarly large
stretches of pipeline. In view of these quantities, pipe fitting plays a
special role in plant and pipeline construction; the conduit system must
be installed quickly and efficiently. Moreover, these constructions are
essential for the function and efficiency of the plants ... |
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HOERBIGER: Simplify Your
Actuators
Intelligent Valve Actuator TriVAX with Integrated Safety
Function
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Nov 27, 2014 + + + The enhanced electrohydraulic valve actuator TriVAX as well as the
TriVAX flex made by HOERBIGER are once again setting trends in the process
industry. These fundamentally reconceptualized valve actuators will take
center stage at the 2014 Valve World in Düsseldorf. TriVAX is the
alternative concept to the complexity of conventional actuators and
facilitates everything from installation, to commissioning, to
maintenance. It allows users to operate their systems easily,
cost-effectively, reliably and safely in demanding applications ... |
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SUNFIRE presents Power-to-Liquids
PtL rig uses renewable electricity to convert water and CO2 to high-purity
alternative fuels (petrol, diesel, kerosene)
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2014 Nov 14 + + + A Power-to-Liquids (PtL)
demonstration rig which is the first of its kind in the world was today
officially inaugurated by Dresden-based sunfire GmbH. The rig uses
sunfire’s PtL technology to transform water and CO2 to high-purity
synthetic fuels (petrol, diesel, kerosene) with the aid of renewable
electricity. So-called PtL fuels – also known as “e-fuels” – can be used
in pure form or as an admixture in combination with conventional fuels ... |
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Avoiding inefficient and unsafe working practices
in potentially hazardous
areas
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2014 Nov. 12 + + + How the recent introduction of the innovative EX25 2D Multi Range
Barcode Imager for ecom’s i.roc® Ci70 -Ex handheld computer (PDA) enables
new levels of efficiency and safety for companies and onsite personnel in
potentially hazardous locations + + + The increasing use
of 1D/2D barcodes in the workplace to identify items, pallets, containers,
storage locations and even yard locations brings the opportunity to
improve safety by reducing the time the people are in a hazardous area,
and improving efficiency due to the speed and accuracy of item/location
identification and data capture ...
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HIMA: Heide Refinery modernizes safety systems in just two weeks
and assures plant availability for the future
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2014-11-06 + + + In
September 2014, Heide Refinery used two weeks of planned downtime at its
pyrolysis plant to migrate to new safety systems. The technology selection
emphasized plant availability and a high level of investment security,
while extensive preliminary testing guaranteed a smooth changeover. When
Heide Refinery, Germany's northernmost processor of crude oil, undertook
an extensive DCS replacement project, it also replaced the pyrolysis
plant’s reliable 20-year-old safety technology with new HIMax systems from
the same manufacturer ... |
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Daqing
Petrochemical gasoline
desulfurization plant selects HIMA turbomachinery control solution
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Oct 29, 2014 + + + Daqing Petrochemical Company, a
regional branch of China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), has chosen the
HIMA FlexSILon® TMC solution for safely controlling turbomachines at its
gasoline desulfurization plant being built in Daqing City, in China’s
Heilongjiang province. Safety specialist HIMA provides all-in-one solution
for turbomachinery control. The FlexSILon TMC solution is based on the
fully redundant HIMax® platform and is a complete solution for achieving
full automation of turbines and compressors .... |
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Technip awarded a significant contract
for new refinery units in the
Kingdom of Bahrain
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Oct. 15, 2014 + + + Technip was awarded by The Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) a
significant contract on a reimbursable basis to develop the Front-End
Engineering Design (FEED) of the refinery located in the Kingdom of
Bahrain. The FEED contract covers four main work packages that
include units aimed at processing the “bottom of the barrel” components to
high value products, and all associated offsites and utilities to provide
seamless integration with existing refinery facilities earmarked for
retention post this major modernization ... |
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Siemens: Data-driven service enhances productivity, efficiency and quality
in the process industry
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Oct. 07, 2014 + + + New service: Control Performance Analytics
...
Continuous analysis of process data for control loops ... Derivation of
recommendations for plant optimization ... Enhanced energy efficiency,
quality and productivity ... Fast setup according to the "plug & play"
principle ... This service is particularly useful for
companies in the chemicals and pharmaceutical branches, food production,
as well as the oil and gas and glass and solar
industries ... more |
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Linde to
build new air separation unit in eastern Germany
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October 07, 2014 + + +
Long-term, on-site gas supply agreement with steelworks. New unit
will also produce liquid gases for regional market ... more |
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ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions awarded planning contract
for
propane dehydrogenation plant in the USA
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Sept. 26, 2014 + + + ThyssenKrupp Industrial
Solutions is making its Steam Active Reforming (STAR) process available to
Formosa Plastics Corporation (FPC) for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH)
plant in Texas, USA. The PDH plant is to be built at the petrochemical
complex in Point Comfort. The contract awarded to ThyssenKrupp Industrial
Solutions includes licensing, basic engineering, detail engineering for
the key equipment, delivery of the catalyst (STAR catalyst®) and technical
support during the entire project execution ... |
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Linde awarded engineering contract for
LNG plant in Canada
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Sep 11, 2014 + + + Technology
company The Linde Group has been awarded a contract to provide engineering
and procurement services for a 2.1 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) natural
gas liquefaction plant for Woodfibre LNG Limited, a subsidiary of energy
resources development company Pacific Oil & Gas (PO&G). The Woodfibre LNG
Project will be located in the District of Squamish near Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. "The Woodfibre LNG
Project is of high strategic value for Linde, as it bridges the gap in the
LNG industry between traditional mid-scale and large-scale LNG trains,"
said Professor Dr Aldo Belloni, member of the Executive Board of Linde AG.
"The Project will be the second largest Linde-engineered LNG plant,
surpassed in capacity only by the LNG facility on Melkøya Island near
Hammerfest, Norway." |
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ExxonMobil announces refinery project Slagen, Norway
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Sept 4, 2014
+ + + The project will replace production of heavy fuel oil with
high quality vacuum gas oil feedstock, which is used to produce cleaner
transportation fuels such as diesel. ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Norge AS
announced today plans to install a new processing unit at the Slagen
refinery to enable production of high quality vacuum gas oil, a
higher-yield feedstock used to create finished products such as diesel.
The new residual flash tower is an upgrading unit that will improve the
facility’s overall crude distillation process by replacing production of
heavy fuel oil with lighter, higher-value gas oil ... |
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Lukoil begins transportation of
processing platform topside
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July 1, 2014 + + + Today, LUKOIL began transporting the
topside of the central processing platform (CPP) from Astrakhan to the
Russian sector of the Caspian Sea, where construction of field facilities
is underway at Vladimir Filanovsky field. The CPP is designed for the processing and
platform-to-shore transportation of oil and associated gas .... |
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MAN Diesel & Turbo: 100th integrally geared compressor
for air separation plant ordered
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June 4, 2014
+ + + MAN
Diesel & Turbo has established the integrally geared centrifugal
compressor as a key component in air separation trains and continues to
develop it further. With the latest order the company has broken the
century mark.
MAN
Diesel & Turbo's AIRTRAIN™ and AIRMAX air separation trains cover a broad
spectrum. With oxygen production volumes of 500 to over 7000 tpd (tons per
day), they are particularly in demand for the production of liquid
hydrocarbons (XtL = X-to-Liquid). With the latest order for three AIRMAX
machine trains, exactly 102 integrally geared centrifugal compressors for
air separation trains have been ordered since 2001 ... |
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Linde and Siluria Technologies
announce ethylene technology
partnership
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June 2, 2014
+ + + Siluria Technologies, a pioneer in the commercial production
of fuels and chemicals made from clean and abundant natural gas, and The
Linde Group, a world-leading gases and engineering company, announced
today that they have entered into a collaboration agreement. The primary
objective of the agreement is to combine the respective company's
technologies and expertise into an optimized and integrated package which
Linde would license to the petrochemicals industry for both revamps or
expansions at existing ethylene plants and for new world scale ethylene
plants ...
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Clariant and Siemens to Introduce New Sour Gas Shift Technology
for Coal
Gasification
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May 28, 2014
+ + + Siemens Energy and Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, signed
an agreement to cooperate in the commercialization of a new, jointly
developed sour gas shift (SGS) technology for coal gasification. The
agreement appoints Clariant as the exclusive catalyst supplier for all
projects where Siemens offers sour gas shift ("SGS") systems. While the
collaboration covers all global projects, commercialization will focus on
China – the region with the highest growth rate of coal-to-chemical
projects ...
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Siemens: Mobile solutions for efficient plant
projects
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May 19, 2014 + + + The Siemens Industry Automation
division is bundling its web-based solutions for plant projects in the
process industry in the new product family Comos Mobile Solutions. This
supports globally networked collaboration across the entire value chain
for plant projects. With Comos Mobile Solutions, all of the participants
in a project have access to relevant information via web-based services
and mobile devices such as tablets - anytime, anywhere. Easy-to-use,
tailor-made solutions for practical applications simplify collaboration
and access to Comos data and documents ... |
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RWE Dea: Algerian Reggane Nord Gas Project entering execution phase
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May 16, 2014
+ + + A project consortium that includes RWE Dea has signed a major
contract for the construction of a natural gas processing plant and
infrastructure in the Algerian Sahara for the Reggane Nord project. The
contract is valued at US$976 million and represents an important step
forward for the project. The Groupement Reggane partners are RWE Dea AG
with its 19.5%-share, the Algerian enterprise Sonatrach (40%), Repsol from
Spain (29.25%), and Edison from Italy (11.25%) ... more |
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Siemens adds further performance
category to its entrained-flow gasifier portfolio
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May
15, 2014 + + + Siemens Energy is adding a new
high-performance model, the SFG-850, to its range of entrained-flow
gasifiers. The SFG-850 is designed to enhance the profitability of future
gasification plants by reducing specific plant costs, along with the
associated production costs of synthesis gas. An SFG-850 gasifier can
convert around 3,000 metric tons of coal per day into more than 5 million
standard cubic meters (Nm3) of high-quality synthesis gas. The SFG-850 was
introduced to the market at the end of March 2014 .... |
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Flottweg: Oil sludge treating centifuges aid new,
profitable wells
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May 7, 2014 + + + Tricanter Z5E incorporates "efficient
centrifugal technology for oil sludge treatment to open up new and
profitable oil wells." Its pretreatment operation is crucial to the
processing of oil, water, and solids separation for maximized oil
recovery. Among Tricanter benefits: greatest possible purity of liquids to
be separated by using the impeller. With it, other processing
steps/separating stages can be eliminated or are no longer required ...
(Published bei OGPE's Weekly EQUIP-ALERT) |
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Hempel launches new Versiline coating for
corrosion under
insulation
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May 02, 2014 + + +
Versiline CUI 56990 is Hempel’s new protective coating designed to combat
the effects of corrosion under insulation. The coating, part of the
Versiline range, offers users a combination of heat resistance and
corrosion protection in a single material. Versiline is a range of
tailor-made speciality solutions for highly challenging applications –
such as chemical tanks, stack linings, absorbers and other process
equipment. Hempel is now adding a new coating to the range, Versiline CUI
56990, which was launched on 2 May in North America ... |
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Linde to build a new hydrogen production unit for Neste Oil
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28 April 2014 - The technology company The Linde Group and Finnish
refining company Neste Oil have agreed on a long-term on-site hydrogen
supply contract. According to the agreement, Linde will build a new
hydrogen production unit for Neste Oil's Porvoo refinery near Helsinki,
Finland. The total investment value from Linde and Neste Oil amounts to
approximately EUR 100 million ... |
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Metso's industry-leading Neles globe
valve technology selected for Abu Dhabi Oil Refinery's (TAKREER) plant
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April 28, 2014 + + + Metso will supply industry-leading Neles® globe valve technology to
Abu Dhabi Oil Refinery Company's (TAKREER) chemical refining complex in in
the United Arab Emirates. The deliveries will include hundreds of Metso's
Neles Globe control and on-off valves. Most of the control valves are
equipped with Neles ND9000 intelligent valve controllers (FOUNDATION
Fieldbus) for performance follow up and predictive maintenance, resulting
improved process efficiency and uptime. The valves will be installed in a
carbon black and delayed coker plant currently under construction ... |
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LUKOIL develops a new technology of waste treatment
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April 24, 2014 + + + The LUKOIL-Nizhegorodniinefteproekt
research institute has developed an unrivaled waste-treatment technology
for the hydrogen fluoride alkylation units operating at refineries. In the
course of production of high-octane gasoline components, the hydrogen
fluoride alkylation units generate waste, currently removed for
utilization. The new technology developed by LUKOIL specialists makes it
possible to produce calcium fluoride from this waste, which can be used in
the metal industry and completely replace the imported fluorspar, a
natural equivalent of calcium fluoride, which is in high demand in the
market. More: www.lukoil.com
Source: Press Centre OAO Lukoil |
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2014-04-09 + + + Updated every day! Names and job titles of operations,
engineers, maintenance and other key personnel many of whom have direct e-mail
addresses and direct phone numbers. Find petrochemicals owners and operating companies
as well as industry support sectors from the largest worldwide
engineer/contractors to local service and
supply companies ... more |
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Linde awarded Enterprise Framework Agreement by Shell
to build ethane
cracking units
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March 31, 2014 + + + The technology company The Linde Group
announced today that it has entered into an Enterprise Framework Agreement
(EFA) with Shell Global Solutions International B. V. to build ethane
cracking units on a global basis. The EFA is for ten years, with an option
to be extended.
The EFA covers the licensing, engineering,
procurement and construction services, as well as the supply of
proprietary equipment of ethane cracking units. Linde understands that the
EFA contract is a renewed opportunity to build upon their long-time
relationship with Shell ... |
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Voith: Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) secures long-term gas supply in
the desert with four Vorecons from Voith
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March 28, 2014 + + + Petroleum Development Oman
(PDO) has chosen the Vorecon hydrody-namic variable speed planetary gear
from Voith for the expansion of its Saih Rawl Gas Processing Plant in
Oman. A total of four Vorecons will control the speed of the turbo
compressors that ensure gas production and processing in the Saih Rawl gas
field ... |
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GEA delivers heat exchangers for LNG production to Yamal
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March 12, 2014 + + + The operating company Yamal LNG intends to build a
plant based on the South Tambey field. GEA Batignolles Technologies Thermiques
(GEA BTT), a subsidiary of GEA Heat Exchangers, landed a record order with a
value of over 40 million Euros from the plant contracting companies Technip and
JGC. The order was for more than 400 air-cooled heat exchangers for the
three-line liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant under construction on the Siberian
peninsula of Yamal ... |
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EVONIK: VESTAKEEP® PEEK 5000 G passes NORSOK M-710 test
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March 4, 2014 + + + Evonik Industries, for decades a reliable partner to the oil
and gas industry, obtained NORSOK M-710 qualification for its newest generation
of polyether ether ketone VESTAKEEP® PEEK 5000 G. + + + The successful test
performance proves the optimal suitability of VESTAKEEP® PEEK 5000 G for
the highly demanding conditions of the oil and gas industry ... |
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VOITH: High efficiency over the entire speed control range
The
new Vorecon with Dual Torque Converter
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March 03, 2014 + + + Launched just recently onto the market, Voith's new Vorecon
variable speed planetary gear is already winning over customers in the oil and
gas industry around the world. Ten of the Vorecons with Dual Torque Converter
have already been sold to American pipeline and gas storage operators for use in
controlling the speed of electrically driven compressors ... |
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ThyssenKrupp: Transfer of VDM and AST from Outokumpu
to ThyssenKrupp completed
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March 1, 2014 + + + The transfer of VDM and AST from
Outokumpu to ThyssenKrupp is now officially completed. The transaction
includes the transfer of ThyssenKrupp’s subordinated financial receivable
(“loan note”) created as part of the Inoxum transaction to Outokumpu. In
exchange, ThyssenKrupp is taking over the companies VDM, AST, and a number
of European service centers ... |
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Linde to deliver
two hydrogen plants to Russia
for heavy residue conversion at the Nizhnekamsk refinery site
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Feb. 11, 2014 + + + Technology company The Linde
Group has recently signed an engineering and procurement contract for two
hydrogen plants in Nizhnekamsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation. The
contract was awarded by PSC TAIF-NK, a leader in the oil refining industry in
Tatarstan. The contract is worth around EUR 120 million ...
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Linde and Nynas conclude hydrogen
on-site contract
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2014-02-07 + + + The technology company The Linde
Group has signed a long-term contract with Nynas AB, one of the world
leaders in the naphthenic specialty oils (NSP) and the bitumen business,
for the on-site supply of hydrogen at Nynas' refinery in Hamburg, Germany.
To this end, the Linde Engineering Division will build a state-of-the-art
steam methane reformer plant with total investments accounting to around
EUR 30 million ... |
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Midwest Publishing Company:
Refining & Gas Processing
Global Industry
Contacts Directory
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2014-01-28 + + + Updated every day! Names and
job titles of operations, engineers, maintenance and other key
personnel many of whom have direct e-mail addresses and direct phone
numbers. Find plant owners and operating companies as well as industry
support sectors from the largest worldwide engineer / contractors to local
service and supply companies ... |
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