Industry News

Tokyo’s first hydrogen refuelling station

Valve World Publisher - July 23, 2002

Showa Shell Sekiyu KK (Showa Shell) is to build the first hydrogen refuelling station in Tokyo, in partnership with Iwatani International Corporation and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Saudi gas deals to be restructured?

Valve World Publisher - July 22, 2002

Talks between Saudi Arabia and its main foreign partners in three mega-gas ventures have "broken down in deadlock, leaving the future of the project in its current shape in doubt," the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES has reported.

Technip wins Angolan field award

Valve World Publisher - July 18, 2002

Technip-Coflexip has been awarded a contract, by Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Ltd, which includes the procurement, fabrication and installation of flexible flowlines and risers, connected to an FPSO, and installation of umbilicals, rigid jumpers and associated subsea equipment for the Xikomba field offshore Angola.

BASF appoints new chairman

Valve World Publisher - July 18, 2002

The Supervisory Board of BASF Aktiengesellschaft has appointed Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht to succeed Dr. Jürgen F. Strube as Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF Aktiengesellschaft.

Praxair and Air Liquide in Chinese venture

Valve World Publisher - July 16, 2002

Industrial gas suppliers Air Liquide and Praxair plan to invest USD 100 million by 2005 in a venture supplying gas to a mammoth Shanghai chemical industry park.

Clariant expands in Mexico with new plant

Valve World Publisher - July 12, 2002

Clariant has commissioned a new production facility at Coatzacoalcos, Mexico.

UK resin plant

Valve World Publisher - July 12, 2002

Belgium 's Tractebel SA has won a EUR 31 million deal to oversee construction of one of the world's largest resin plants near Hull in the UK.

China signs west-east pipeline deal

Valve World Publisher - July 5, 2002

China has signed a deal with foreign oil giants to pipe gas from far western deserts to the eastern metropolis of Shanghai in a USD 20 billion project to sate a thirst for energy and cut use of dirty coal.

Biopharmaceutical plant in Montreal

Valve World Publisher - July 2, 2002

DSM will invest EUR 7 million in the basic engineering for a new biopharmaceutical plant in Canada.

Refinery expansion project in Abu Dhabi

Valve World Publisher - July 1, 2002

Technip-Coflexip has been awarded, by Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co., a lump-sum turn-key contract worth about USD 480 million for the expansion of the Ruwais Refinery to modernise the existing facilities and to add new units for the production of unleaded gasoline and low sulphur gas oil.

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