Projects

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (JEC) was awarded a contract from Evonik Methionine SEA Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Evonik Industries AG, to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for a new methionine production complex at Jurong Island, Singapore.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. was awarded a contract from Flexsys Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Solutia Inc., to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services to support the Kuantan Resin plant in Kuantan, Malaysia. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2013.

Alpek S.A.B. de C.V., through its subsidiary Grupo Petrotemex, S.A. de C.V., has awarded a turnkey contract to a consortium led by SENER Mexico for the construction of a cogeneration power plant in Cosoleacaque, Veracruz.

McDermott International, Inc. (McDermott) announced that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a fabrication contract for components of a deepwater platform in the Gulf of Mexico, by Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland BV.

 The United States has said that it is ready to provide further support to the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project.

Reliance Industries Ltd has selected Philips 66's E Gas Technology for its planned gasification plants at Jamnagar which is the largest refining complex in the world with an aggregate refining capacity of 1.3 mn barrels of oil per day.

Technip was awarded by Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) two subsea contracts in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, worth a total amount of EUR 105 million.

In the next ten years, Chile must almost double its 2011 installed energy capacity of 16,000MW to keep up with projected demand. Chile energy supplier GasAtacama SA intends to invest between USD 300 million and USD 400 million in an offshore liquefied natural gas regasification terminal off the coastline of northern Chile.

WorleyParsons has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services contract for the delivery of acrylic chemicals projects for BASF. The projects include the design and construction of acrylic acid and super absorbent polymer plants to be located in Eastern China and Northern Brazil.

During the inauguration of the world's largest polyvinyl chloride (PVC) unit in the complex, managing director of the Arvand Petrochemical Complex named Jamaica as the newest importer of Iranian petrochemical products.