Projects

ATCO and its partner Grupo Hermes have been selected by an affiliate of Mexico's state-owned petroleum company Pemex, PMX Cogeneracion, to begin the project development and approval process for a natural gas cogeneration plant at the Miguel Hidalgo refinery near the town of Tula in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico.

Metso delivered more than 70 Neles globe valves for Phase II of the Longyu Coal project in Henan for the production of 400,000 tons of acetic acid and 200,000 tons of ethylene glycol per year. The valves have been installed and their operation in extreme conditions has been flawless, proving the safety and reliability of the technology.

UOP, a Honeywell company, announced that PennTex North Louisiana, a subsidiary of PennTex Midstream Partners, has selected UOP to engineer, procure and construct (EPC) a gas processing plant to recover valuable natural gas liquids (NGLs) in northern Louisiana.

The Milton Roy Company has named Bill Beard as the new U.S. Sales Director for their commercial products portfolio. Beard will be located in the Houston, Texas office and will be responsible for growing the LMI and Hartell business.

A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by PEMEX REFINACIÓN for an ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD) project at the Salina Cruz refinery, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Plains All American Pipeline will construct the Diamond Pipeline, a 440mi, 20” crude oil pipeline that will provide capacity of up to 200,000 barrels per day of domestic sweet crude from the Plains Cushing, Oklahoma, terminal to the Valero Memphis Refinery, and the ability to access Valero Energy Partner's Collierville pipeline.

Technip has been awarded a substantial EPIC lump sum contract by BP Trinidad and Tobago for the development of the Juniper project, to be located off the South East coast of Trinidad. The scope of work consists of design, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, load out and mechanical completion of 4,300 short ton topsides that can process 590MMSCFD of gas and 6,100 short ton jacket.

The California Water Service Company is working on developing a regional conjunctive use project in the South Westside Basin for use during drought conditions in partnership with the cities of Daly City and San Bruno.

Enbridge has announced that in October, The Seaway Twin will be filled with Canadian oil sands crude from its new 600,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Flanagan South Pipeline. The crude will be brought to North America’s largest refining complex on the US Gulf Coast.

ExxonMobil Chemical Company started the construction of a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker at its Baytown, Texas, complex and associated premium product facilities in nearby Mont Belvieu. The steam cracker will have a capacity of up to 1.