Downstream contract news

CB&I and Saudi Aramco have entered into a joint development agreement for the development of crude-to-chemical technologies.

Amy Hebert will join the company’s executive management on 1 February.

Cheniere Marketing and Trafigura have entered into a LNG sale and purchase agreement.

Praxair, Inc. has expanded its long-term hydrogen supply agreement with Motiva Enterprises LLC for a refinery in Texas, US.

KBC has signed a consultancy agreement for the integration of oil refineries in China's Shandong Province.

Vitol has acquired Noble Americas for approximately US$400 million, completing a sale which was first announced in October 2017.

The acquisition sees Hexagon take on Industrial Business Solutions’ ContinuumEdge software.

SNC-Lavalin signs a master services agreement with a plastics, chemical and refining company in the Gulf Coast.

hte has tested the performance of commercial light cut naphtha isomerisation catalysts for an OMV refinery in Austria.

A new partnership between Koch-Glitsch and INVISTA Performance Technology aims to provide upgrade opportunities to improve bottom line.