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South Korea's Yeochon NCC is to expand the capacities of its No 1 and 2 petrochemical complexes at Yeochon by 2% and 7%, respectively, in October and May, a company source has said.

Alliant Energy has announced that its Iowa utility subsidiary, Interstate Power and Light Company (IP&L), intends to submit a bid to build a 500mw natural gas fired facility.

An environmental fund has been established by Norway's process industry, including Statoil, to reduce Norwegian emissions of sulphur.

In 2002, the tube output of Ukraine will top 1.5 million tons, close to that of 2001.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will build a second tanker for transporting liquefied natural gas to reduce procurement costs.

Constellation Energy Source, a unit of Constellation Energy Group, has won a USD 43.6 million contract to design, build and operate an energy plant in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

TW Metals has announced that its new European sales and warehousing centre in France is now fully operational and doubles the previous storage capacity available.

FMC Technologies Inc. has announced that MODEC International LLC, a joint venture of FMC Technologies and MODEC Inc., Tokyo, has entered into a letter of intent with El Paso Energy Partners LP to provide the engineering, procurement and construction of the hull, mooring and production riser system for the world's deepest planned tension leg platform (TLP).

US silicone-based products maker Dow Corning Corp will build a plant in Malaysia this year as part of a pledge made in 1998 to invest two billion ringgit (USD 526 million) in the country.

GRIRO SA, a process equipment manufacturer based in Bucharest, Romania, has widened its product range.