Black & Veatch PRICO SMR Becomes World’s First Proven FLNG Technology to Achieve Production on a Floating Facility
Overland Park, Kansas – The world’s first floating natural gas liquefaction unit (FLNG) has successfully completed performance testing in Nantong, China. With the average liquefaction process load exceeding 100 percent during the 72-hour performance test, the flawless performance of the FLNG ensured all design requirements and production capacities were achieved for the unit’s operational effectiveness. For the first time in history, LNG has been produced onboard a floating facility. “This pe...
Jacobs Wins Contract to Support Olin Gulf Coast Chemical Plants
PASADENA, Calif.- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it received a multi-year contract from Olin Corporation. Jacobs is one of several companies providing engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for facilities in Freeport, Texas; Plaquemine, Louisiana; St. Gabriel, Louisiana; and McIntosh, Alabama. In making the announcement, Jacobs President Petroleum and Chemicals Gary Mandel said, “Securing this contract represents a strong endorsement...
KBR Announces Another Successful Implementation of Distill-Max Technology
KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) today announced that Placid Refining Company LLC has successfully started up a grassroots Dividing Wall Column (DWC) reformate splitter at their Port Allen, Louisiana, USA refinery. KBR's Distill-Max™ DWC technology was selected for this application during Placid Refining Company's "Mobile Source Air Toxic (MSAT) II Reformate Splitter Project" The reformate splitter column is designed to remove benzene from the gasoline streams and produce a benzene rich stream. KBR's ap...
AECOM Unveils Target for Reducing Carbon Footprint
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10, 2016 — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20 percent, normalized by revenue, across its global operations by 2020, starting from a baseline year in 2015. To achieve this goal, the company will focus on its largest sources of emissions: fleet vehicle fuel, purchased electricity and heating/cooling for offices. The established target follows AECOM’s commitment along with ot...
Breakthrough Research to Produce Sustainable Food and Fuel Sources in UAE Desert Ecosystem
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Aug. 9, 2016 - A biofuel research facility in Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), is tackling the dual challenges of food and water security, while simultaneously providing a sustainable source of aviation fuel. CH2M, along with its clients - Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (Masdar Institute) and the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), is working together with industry, academia and government on the world's first res...
Amec Foster Wheeler Wins Thai Oil’s Clean Fuel Project Contract
Amec Foster Wheeler announces today that it has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Thai Oil Public Company Limited for its Clean Fuel Project at the Sriracha Refinery in Thailand. The contract is due for completion in the second quarter of 2017. The project will enable a crude distillation capacity expansion from 275,000 barrels per stream day (bpsd) to 410,000 bpsd and improvements to the energy efficiency of Thai Oil's refinery, as well as the production of tr...
Successful Pilot for Amec Foster Wheeler’s VESTA Once-Through Methanation Technology
Amec Foster Wheeler announces that the pilot plant of its new VESTA once-through methanation technology, with wide H2/CO flexibility, has been successfully tested and is ready for commercial application. The pilot plant in China was developed with the support of partners Wison Engineering (Wison) and Clariant. Test results confirm a number of advantages for VESTA over existing technologies including: The VESTA technology is a once-through operation with no need for expensive compressors...
U.S., Enbridge Reach $177 Million Settlement after 2010 Oil Spills in Michigan and Illinois
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice today announced a settlement with Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership and several related Enbridge companies to resolve claims stemming from its 2010 oil spills in Marshall, Mich. and Romeoville, Ill. Enbridge has agreed to spend at least $110 million on a series of measures to prevent spills and improve operations across nearly 2,000 miles of its pipeline system in the Great Lakes region. Enbridge will als...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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