Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced that it received a contract from BP Chembel N.V. for basic and detailed engineering services to upgrade its facilities in Geel, Belgium.
Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs is installing new equipment and performing upgrades in the facility’s PTA units. BP’s Geel site is a major producer of purified terephthalic acid and paraxylene, typically used in the manufacture of polyesters. The goal of this project is to optimize operational performance of the BP Geel facilities.
bp agrees to sell its petrochemicals business to INEOS
bp announced that it has agreed to sell its global petrochemicals business to INEOS for a total consideration of $5 billion, subject to customary adjustments. The agreed sale, the next strategic step in reinventing bp, will further strengthen bp’s balance sheet and delivers its target for a ... more
ALPLA joins cross-industry consortium for chemical recycling
ALPLA Group joins a new consortium for chemical recycling of PET. The consortium intends to speed up the commercialisation of enhanced recycling technology, BP Infinia, which turns opaque and difficult-to-recycle PET plastic waste into recycled feedstocks.Leading companies operating across ... more
Industrial consortium on the way to green kerosene
A funding application for the construction of an industrial demonstration plant has been agreed by a partnership of major companies as part of a memorandum of understanding entitled “GreenPower2Jet” (GP2J). The aim of the project, after successful pre-engineering, is to build an industrial- ... more
Industrieparks BP Gelsenkirchen Scholven und Horst
Together with the Gelsenkirchen-Scholven plant, the Horst plant forms an integrated refinery. The two plants are linked by a pipeline system. Apart from oil processing, which takes place at both plants, BP Refining & Petrochemicals GmbH operates two crackers for the production of ethylene a ... more
BP's chemical business is focussed on aromatics and acetyls, producing and marketing PX, PTA, acetic acid, acetic anhydride and derivatives primarliy in the US, Europe and Asia. In Germany and China, BP also produces and markets olefins and derivatives. more
Jacobs Receives Additional Contract from Borealis in Belgium
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced it received a five year frame agreement for work at three Borealis facilities in Belgium. Company officials did not disclose the contract value, but noted that the three facilities covered under the contract are Borealis Polymers N.V., Borealis Kallo ... more
Jacobs Receives Contract From Huntsman Corporation to Expand Chemical Plant in Singapore
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced that it received a contract from Huntsman Corporation to provide engineering, procurement, construction management and turnaround management services for a capacity expansion of Huntsman's polyether amines manufacturing facility on Jurong Island, Sing ... more
Dow Polyurethanes Plans Capital Investments in Europe
Dow Polyurethanes, a business group of The Dow Chemical Company, announced that it will move forward with the detailed engineering phase of the nameplate capacity expansion of its polyols plant in Terneuzen, The Netherlands. The company has selected Jacobs Engineering, a design contract fir ... more
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of professional technical services. With 2009 revenues exceeding $11 billion, we offer full-spectrum support to industrial, commercial, and government clients across multiple markets. Services include sc ... more
