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NOVA Chemicals Contract

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is providing engineering design, global procurement, and construction management services for NOVA Chemicals Corporation's debottleneck project in Bayport, Texas, USA.

Gunnison spar contract

Wellstream, a business unit of Halliburton's Energy Services Group, has been awarded a contract by Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kerr-McGee Corp., for the supply of a flexible flowline, jumper and risers for the Gunnison spar development project in the Gulf of Mexico.

ABB wins North Sea order

ABB has won a three-year, USD 80 million contract from Norsk Hydro (Norway) to design, construct and instal two large modules on the Visund oil platform in the North Sea.

Handymax tankers

Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited has entered into a contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea for the building of one DWT 37,000 handymax product tanker to be delivered during 2004.

Valve for extreme temperatures

An extended bonnet globe control valve which is designed to operate in applications where temperatures are in the cryogenic range (down to –268ºC), is one of a range of control valves available from Pump Engineering Ltd.

Boiler claims high operating efficiency

Following the application of pulse combustion technology to heating boilers in 1991, Fulton has produced its Pulse Plus range of high-efficiency condensing boilers.

Metal spray process

Inovati (Santa Barbara, CA) has successfully developed a low-temperature metal deposition technique, Kinetic Metallization (KM).

Swedish water treatment JV

Kemira Kemi AB, will establish a joint venture company, called Akvab, with Anox AB for the development and marketing of biochemical complete solutions in water treatment.

Vietnamese plastics plant

Vietnam Saigon Plastic Association (VSPA) has boosted its plans to build a USD 800 million, natural-gas fired plastics plant in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.

BASF to build vitamin plant

South Korea's Ministry of Commerce has said that German chemicals company BASF AG will invest USD 26 million to build a vitamin plant in South Korea.