Clean Coal power project
Clean Coal Power Resources has announced plans for a USD 4.5 billion project in Illinois that includes a huge underground coal mine, a coal gasification plant and a 2400-MW generating facility.
Russo-German joint gas venture
The largest German oil company Wintershall (Kassel) and Gazprom are planning to set up a joint company for the exploitation of hard-to-access gas deposits in western Siberia.
Ethylene furnace at Oyster Creek
Dow Chemical Company will begin construction in November for the addition of a new ethylene furnace at its Oyster Creek plant located in Freeport, Texas.
India boosts refinery capacity
India's state-owned refining and marketing firm Bharat Petroleum Corp. plans to expand the capacity of its Bombay refinery to 12 million metric tons a year from 6.90 million tons by October 2004.
Clean fuels at Texas refinery
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company NV, through its subsidiary Howe-Baker International, has won a contract from Valero Energy Corporation to design and build a 53,000 bpd gasoline desulpuhrisation unit at Valero's 243,000 bpd refinery in Texas City, Texas, USA.