·       Fabric Filter Newsletter Headlines - October 2014

·       Oil & Gas Sales Leads Headlines - October 31, 2014

·       Semiconductor Industry Update Headlines - September 2014

• World Power Generation Projects Headlines
  Revision Date:  October 8 - 15, 2014

FABRIC FILTER NEWSLETTER HEADLINES

October 2014

MEGA SYMPOSIUM

• MEGA Was About “Fine Tuning” of APC Technology
• Discussion Covers Variety of Leak Detectors
• Sorbent Injection Systems Force Implementation of Cleaning Changes

MARKETS

• Fabric Filter Market Could Be 4 Billion Dollars Larger if Catalytic Filter is Adopted
• China Air Filter and Fabric Filter Markets are Competing
• Game Changers for the Air, Water Treatment and Flow Market

CEMENT

• FLSmidth to Supply Cement Plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Modernization Underway at Holcim Ada Oklahoma Plant

INDUSTRY NEWS

• Clarcor Maintains Strong Momentum
• Donaldson Reports Record Fourth Quarter Sales and Earnings
• Good First Half Bookings for Hamon
• INDA’s Filtration 2014 at Baltimore Convention Center, November 18-20, 2014
• Chevron Phillips Chemical Signs Agreement to Sell its Ryton PPS Business to Solvay
• Dundee Sarea Acquires Redecam Group
• FLSmidth AFT Will Continue to Supply Filter Bags and Cages to Covanta’s Energy from Waste Facilities
• Donaldson Opens New Distribution Center in Lima, Peru
• New FLSmidth Service Center in Zacatecas, Mexico
• Ahlstrom announces Price Increases for Advanced Filtration Materials
• Hollingsworth and Vose to Increase Price on Industrial Filtration Products

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OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES

October 31, 2014

(Listed by most current date)

Dakota Gold Transfer – Plaza, LLC Announces New Crude Oil Terminal in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale  (Article Dated: 10/31/2014)

GE Invests $5 Mln in Norway Technology Solutions Center to Fuel Oil and Gas Industry  (Article Dated: 10/31/2014)

MarkWest Announces Expansion of Processing and Fractionation Infrastructure in Butler County, PA  (Article Dated: 10/31/2014)

Kinder Morgan to Expand Edmonton Crude Oil Rail Terminal Now Under Construction  (Article Dated: 10/31/2014)

PennEast Pipeline, Announces Project to Supply Marcellus Natural Gas to Mid-Atlantic Region  (Article Dated: 10/31/2014)

PA Governor and Panda Power Funds Break Ground on Second 829-MW Marcellus Shale-Gas Power Plant  (Article Dated: 10/31/2014)

Williams Announces Open Season for Transco Pipeline’s Diamond East Project  (Article Dated: 10/31/2014)

Dakota Plains and Hiland Crude Announce Bakken Gathering Pipeline to Pioneer Rail Terminal  (Article Dated: 10/30/2014)

Intervale Capital Acquires Recapture Solutions, LLC from Triten Corp  (Article Dated: 10/30/2014)

Apache Announces First Canning Basin Oil Discovery Offshore Western Australia  (Article Dated: 10/30/2014)

EnLink Midstream Announces 45 Mile Condensate Pipeline and Compression and Stabilization Facilities  (Article Dated: 10/30/2014)

Alfa Laval Wins SEK 80 Mln Energy-Efficiency Order in Canada  (Article Dated: 10/30/2014)

Alfa Laval Wins SEK 95 Mln Natural Gas Order to a U.S. Export Terminal  (Article Dated: 10/30/2014)

Seadrill Secures $497 Mln Rig Contract in Nigeria  (Article Dated: 10/30/2014)

Chevron’s CEO Sees Bright Future for Oil and Gas  (Article Dated: 10/29/2014)

Saddle Butte Launches Binding Open Season for Rockies South Pipeline  (Article Dated: 10/29/2014)

Scathing Report Details Canada’s Environmental Shortfalls  (Article Dated: 10/29/2014)

Oil Slump Means Canceled Projects as Investment Declines  (Article Dated: 10/29/2014)

U.S. ‘nano-genius’ to Head $20 Mln Oilsands Research Program  (Article Dated: 10/29/2014)

Europe’s Changing Political Climate Working for Canada’s Oilsands  (Article Dated: 10/29/2014)

Northern Gateway Pipeline Project Likely Delayed Beyond 2018  (Article Dated: 10/29/2014)

Alberta Energy Regulator Approves Pipeline from Fort McMurray to Edmonton  (Article Dated: 10/28/2014)

Kuwait Purchases Thirty Percent of Chevron Holdings in Canada’s Duvernay Shale  (Article Dated: 10/24/2014)

EU Abandons 'Dirty' Label for Tar Sands Oil  (Article Dated: 10/24/2014)

Pembina Shelves Pipeline Linked to Stalled Canadian Oil Sands Project  (Article Dated: 10/24/2014)

Sky Is the Limit for New Utah Oil Sands Tech  (Article Dated: 10/24/2014)

Alberta Energy Regulator Approves $3 Bln Grand Rapids Pipeline Project  (Article Dated: 10/24/2014)

AEV System Treats Oily Sand, Oily Sludge, Oily Millscale and Contaminated Sand and Soils  (Article Dated: 10/24/2014)

Pembina Pipeline Unveils Plans for $314 Mln Diluent Terminal Development in Alberta  (Article Dated: 10/24/2014)

Statoil Calls Off 40,000-bpd Canadian Oil Sand Development  (Article Dated: 10/23/2014)

Fort Hills Awards Oil Sands Contract Worth $1.3 Bln to Fluor  (Article Dated: 10/23/2014)

Oil Sands Companies to Adopt Voluntary Environmental Commitments in Canada  (Article Dated: 10/23/2014)

Excelsior Engineering Selected as EPCM Contractor by Field Upgrading  (Article Dated: 10/23/2014)

Thailand Awaits Vietnamese Decision on $22 Bln Petrochemicals Development  (Article Dated: 10/22/2014)

Saudi Arabia’s Advanced Petrochemical to Enhance Polypropylene Capacity in 2015  (Article Dated: 10/21/2014)

Egyptian Refining’s $3.7 Bln Mostorod Refinery Upgrade Underway  (Article Dated: 10/21/2014)

China's New PDH Plants Face up to Asian Propylene Glut  (Article Dated: 10/21/2014)

Engineers India Wins Order from Assam Petrochemicals to Start Methanol and Acetic Acid  (Article Dated: 10/21/2014)

Ineos Suspends Plans for U.S. Gulf Coast Ethylene Oxide Unit  (Article Dated: 10/21/2014)

Egypt to Invest $14.5 Bln in Petrochemicals and Refining over Five Years  (Article Dated: 10/21/2014)

Duqm Refinery Floats Tender for Petrochemicals Project  (Article Dated: 10/20/2014)

Asian Petrochemicals  (Article Dated: 10/20/2014)

Russia Petrochemicals Report Q4 2014  (Article Dated: 10/20/2014)

UK's Ineos Extends Shale Gas Acreage with Eighty Percent of Scottish License  (Article Dated: 10/20/2014)

Univation to Become Wholly Owned Dow Unit in Deal with ExxonMobil  (Article Dated: 10/20/2014)

Tioga Delivers Specialty Pipe for LyondellBasell Expansion  (Article Dated: 10/20/2014)

CB&I to License, Design Polypropylene Unit for China Project  (Article Dated: 10/20/2014)

North Dakota Group Plans $4 Bln Chemical Plant  (Article Dated: 10/20/2014)

Industries Qatar Puts Multi Billion Dollar Al Sejeel Petrochemicals Project on Hold  (Article Dated: 10/20/2014)

Saudi Sipchem Starts Plastics Plant with South Korea's Hanwha Chemical  (Article Dated: 10/17/2014)

ExxonMobil to Boost Hydrocarbon Fluid Production at Antwerp, Singapore  (Article Dated: 10/17/2014)

Japan's Mitsui Restarts Naphtha Cracker after Repair  (Article Dated: 10/17/2014)

Sipchem to Build Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) Film Plant  (Article Dated: 10/17/2014)

Saudi Sipchem Says Affiliate Restarts Butanediol Plant  (Article Dated: 10/17/2014)

LyondellBasell Eyes Further Expansion at SE Texas Plant  (Article Dated: 10/16/2014)

Kinder Morgan Reveals Anchor Shipper for Utica-Ontario Pipeline  (Article Dated: 10/16/2014)

Huntsman to Add MDI Plant at Geismar, LA Site  (Article Dated: 10/16/2014)

Dow Chemical Expects to Raise Over $2 Bln from Sale of 3 Units  (Article Dated: 10/16/2014)

Borealis Awards Service Contract for Ethane Cracker Upgrade  (Article Dated: 10/16/2014)

Saudi Aramco, Sumitomo Chemical Invite Banks to Back $8.5 Bln JV Plant Expansion  (Article Dated: 10/15/2014)

PKN Orlen Awards CB&I a Contract for Olefins Plant in Poland  (Article Dated: 10/15/2014)

Thai PTT and Saudi Aramco in Joint Vietnam Petrochemical Project  (Article Dated: 10/15/2014)

Shell's Refining Business Looks for Strength in Its Downstream Chemicals  (Article Dated: 10/15/2014)

Chinese Firm to Use UOP Technology to Produce Isobutylene  (Article Dated: 10/15/2014)

Japan's Idemitsu Shuts Naphtha Cracker for Turnaround  (Article Dated: 10/15/2014)

Momentive Specialty Chemicals Expands Alberta Triazine Plant  (Article Dated: 10/15/2014)

Sasol Eyes Angola, Ghana and Tanzania Opportunities  (Article Dated: 10/15/2014)

Boardwalk to Acquire Evangeline Ethylene Pipeline from Chevron  (Article Dated: 10/15/2014)

South Korea Increases Emissions Cap in Proposed Carbon Trading Scheme  (Article Dated: 10/15/2014)

Saudi Ethylene Plant Enters Planned Maintenance  (Article Dated: 10/14/2014)

China's CNOOC Hizhou Petchem Plant Wants U.S. LPG as Feedstock  (Article Dated: 10/14/2014)

Banking on U.S. Shale Gas Boom, Asia Petrochemical Firms Switch to LPG  (Article Dated: 10/14/2014)

CB&I Licenses Technology for China PP Expansion  (Article Dated: 10/14/2014)

Shenhua Ningxia Coal Selects CB&I Technology for Chinese Petrochemicals Complex  (Article Dated: 10/14/2014)

Water Shortage Curbing Growth of China’s Coal-to-chemicals Projects  (Article Dated: 10/14/2014)

Yamal, Russia's Gas Megaplan, Becomes Symbol of Defiance against Western Sanctions  (Article Dated: 10/10/2014)

Europe LNG Terminal Capacity Seen Adequate if Russian Gas Flows Stop  (Article Dated: 10/10/2014)

Sembcorp Marine Wins $190 Mln Bechtel Contract to Fabricate LNG Process Modules  (Article Dated: 10/10/2014)

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SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY UPDATE HEADLINES

September 2014

• The Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at SUNY Polytechnic Institute
• Murata to acquire Peregrine Semiconductor
• Infineon to acquire U.S.-based Semiconductor Company
• SMIC and JCET Establish a Joint Venture
• Fairchild to Shut Down Penang, Bucheon Fab Lines
• Eon Silicon, China Sigma Team Up for NAND Flash
• Toshiba, SanDisk Open Semiconductor Fab 5
• UMC joins Fujitsu’s New Foundry Company
• Google Developing Quantum Computing Chip

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WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECTS HEADLINES

This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There are thousands of projects in the database.

Revision Date:  October 8 - 15, 2014

Revision Date 10/15/2014

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