Downstream news

Servomex has appointed Gerd Buettner as Regional Sales Manager for Germany and Eastern Europe.

INEOS has committed to building a new chemical cracker and propane dehydrogenation plant in North West Europe with a €2.7 billion investment.

Rotork will supply electric and pneumatic valve actuators as well as valve gearboxes to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co. Ltd for flow control.

MPC and Andeavor have received the necessary regulatory clearance for MPC to acquire all of Andeavor’s outstanding shares.

KBR has been awarded a contract to revamp Haifa Chemicals’ nitric acid plant in Israel.

Elliott Group has appointed Mark Babyak as Vice President of its Cryodynamic Products business.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems is delivering Single-Module and Dual-Module Gulftronic™ Electrostatic Separator systems to support carbon black plants.

KBR Inc. has been awarded a contract to supply an ethylene technology to GS Caltex Corp. for a mixed feed cracker in South Korea.

Black & Veatch-PCL Construction joint venture has been selected to perform EPC work on a large-scale ethylene export facility in Texas, US.

Secunda Synfuels Operations will use a Honeywell service to monitor the operating reliability of two units at its refinery in Secunda, South Africa.