Storage tanks for Qatar gas
CB&I has been awarded a lump-sum turnkey contract valued over USD 50 million to design and construct LPG storage tanks that will be the largest of their kind ever built by CB&I and the largest in the Middle East.
âChemical Islandâ? for Veracel
Eka Chemicals, Akzo Nobel’s pulp and paper chemicals business unit, has secured a 15-year supply agreement for the delivery of chemicals to the new Veracel pulp mill at Eunápolis in the state of Bahia, Brazil.
Samsung contract for a Butene-1 plant
Arabian Petrochemical Company (Petrokemya) has awarded a contract to Samsung Engineering for the engineering, procurement and construction of a third Butene-1 plant.
Repsol-YPF boosts output in Ecuador
Repsol-YPF will invest USD 136.8 million in Ecuador as part of a plan to increase its output in the Andean nation to 100,000bpd from 19,000bpd.
Russia’s Nizhnekamsk builds new plant
One of Russia's largest petrochemical companies, OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim, plans to build a USD 125 million plant by 2006 to produce polypropylene.