Africa and the Middle East - Page 1

DuPont and OCP partner for safety and sustainability
Friday, May 10, 2013 DuPont has formed a joint venture (JV) with Morocco-based phosphate producer OCP to offer consulting and training services to enhance the safety, operational and environmental performance...

Air Products to construct air-separation unit in South Africa
Friday, May 10, 2013 Air Products is planning to construct a new air-separation unit in the Eastern Cape's Port Elizabeth Coega Industrial Development Zone, in South...

Stamicarbon to upgrade NFC urea plant in Iraq
Monday, April 29, 2013 The licensing and IP centre of Maire Tecnimont SpA, Stamicarbon, has signed a contract with First Global Company to revamp the urea plant of State Company for Fertilizer North Area (NFC) in...

Equate partners Gulf Cryo for Kuwait CO2 recovery project
Friday, April 19, 2013 Equate Petrochemical Company has selected Gulf Cryo for its second CO2 recovery project in...

Technip secures Bahrain SRU modification project contract
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Integrated national oil company Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) has awarded a contract to Technip to modify its #3 sulphur recovery unit (SRU) at its refinery in...

Anichem buys Sasol Gulf assets from Sasol Olefins and Surfactants
Monday, April 08, 2013 Anichem FZC, a member of the Al Nahda International Group, has purchased the assets of G.D. Portbury (Sasol Gulf), a subsidiary of Sasol Olefins and...

Toyo, ENPPI to build Ethydco Egyptian polyethylene plant
Wednesday, April 03, 2013 Egyptian ethylene and derivatives company Ethydco has awarded a contract to Toyo Engineering and Engineering for the Petroleum and Process Industries (ENPPI) to build its polyethylene plant...

Tata Consulting secures Dangote plant contract in Africa
Thursday, March 21, 2013 Pan-African conglomerate Dangote Group has awarded a contract to Tata Consulting Engineers to provide management consultancy services for its fertiliser plant in Nigeria,...

Ma'aden enters into JV to develop phosphate complex in Saudi Arabia
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma'aden) has entered into an agreement with the Mosaic Company and Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC) to establish a joint venture (JV) and develop an...

Flotek, Gulf Energy to develop Omani chemistry production facility
Monday, March 18, 2013 Flotek Industries, a US-based developer of oil field technologies, has entered into an agreement with Oman-based Gulf Energy's affiliate to develop advanced oil field chemistry production...

Fluor to design Al-Karaana Petrochemicals project
Tuesday, March 05, 2013 Engineering and construction company Fluor has received a contract from Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Shell to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services to their joint venture...

Sadara selects Intertec's enclosure technology for process analysers
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Petrochemical company Sadara has contracted Intertec to protect around 1,000 field-based process analysers at its new complex in Saudi...

World Bank's IFC funds Indorama's Nigerian fertiliser plant
Friday, February 22, 2013 The World Bank's investment arm, International Finance Corporation (IFC), has invested $375m in the Nigeria-based Indorama Eleme Fertilizer Company, in order to support the expansion of...

AfDB to fund Nigerian Indorama Eleme fertiliser plant
Monday, February 04, 2013 Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals (IEFCL) will receive a senior loan of $100m from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to construct and operate a new gas to urea fertiliser facility in...

ThyssenKrupp to build Turkish fertiliser plant
Friday, February 01, 2013 German-based engineering company ThyssenKrupp Uhde has received a €141m contract from Turkey-based Bandirma Gübre Fabrikalari (BAGFAS) to build a fertiliser...

Shell Chemicals, Qatar Petroleum license Mitsubishi oxo alcohol technology
Friday, January 11, 2013 Shell Chemicals and Qatar Petroleum have licensed Mitsubishi Chemical's (MCC) oxo alcohols production technology for their oxo derivative unit at the Al-Karaana Petrochemicals complex in Ras...

Ethiopia to establish Chemical Industry Corporation
Friday, January 04, 2013 The Ethiopian Government has approved a directive to establish a Chemical Industry Corporation to manage chemical industrial development in the...

Iran launches new petrochemical plant
Friday, January 04, 2013 Iran has opened a new petrochemical plant in the western province of...

Saudi Arabia's Chemanol plans to build new specialty chemical plants
Friday, December 21, 2012 Saudi Arabia-based Methanol Chemicals Company (Chemanol) is planning to construct many new specialty chemical projects during the next four...

Methanol Chemicals Company to build new SNF plant
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Saudi Arabia's Methanol Chemicals Company is planning to construct a new plant, to expand its production capacity of sulphonated naphthalene formaldehyde (SNF)...