CHEMICAL UPDATE 

OCTOBER 2013

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

INDUSTRY

U.S. Chemical Earnings Up in Third Quarter

Brazil Ramps Up Plastics Resins Imports

 

COMPANY NEWS

DuPont Announces Separation of Performance Chemicals Segment

Dow Sells Polypropylene Licensing Business to W.R. Grace

Three Former Clariant Businesses Now Operating under Archroma Name

Solvay to Open Largest Sodium Bicarbonate Plant in Southeast Asia

Solvay Launches Bio-Based PPA for Smart Phones

Linde to Add Liquefier Component at Texas Facility

BASF to Acquire Specialized Enzyme Biotechnology Company Verenium

BASF Announces $42.6 million Polyurethane Blending Facility in Lousiana

 

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OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES

 November 4, 2013

 

(Listed by most current date)

 

Honeywell to Help New Production Facility Meet Rising Demand For Clean Energy  (Project Dated: 11/4/2013)

 

Rosneft and ExxonMobil Select Contractors for Russian Far East LNG Project FEED  (Project Dated: 11/4/2013)

 

GP Strategies Corp to Build Thirteen LNG Fueling Stations for UPS  (Contract Dated: 11/4/2013)

 

Project Development Agreement for Lake Charles LNG Export Terminal  (Agreement Dated: 11/4/2013)

 

GE to Provide Almost $600 Mln in Turbomachinery Equipment for Yamal LNG Megaproject  (Contract Dated: 11/4/2013)

 

Wison Installs LNG Storage Tanks into the World's First FLNG Production Unit  (Project Dated: 11/4/2013)

 

Enbridge in Talks with Natural Gas Producers about British Columbia LNG Pipeline  (Article Dated: 11/1/2013)

 

Stabilis Energy and Flint Hills Resources to Build LNG Liquefaction Facilities for Oilfield Fuel Consumers  (Project Dated: 11/1/2013)

 

Alaska LNG Project Selects Lead Terminal Location  (Project Dated: 11/1/2013)

 

Malaysia's Petronas to Spend $35 Bln on Canadian LNG Project  (Project Dated: 11/1/2013)

 

Chevron and Tohoku Electric Sign Wheatstone LNG Agreement  (Agreement Dated: 11/1/2013)

 

Dominion Welcomes DOE Approval for Natural Gas Exports From Cove Point  (Project Dated: 10/31/2013)

 

Clean Energy, Ferus Natural Gas Fuels, GE Join Forces to Jointly Deliver LNG  (Article Dated: 10/31/2013)

 

Alfa Laval Wins Natural Gas Order in the U.S.  (Order Dated: 10/31/2013)

 

Applied Natural Gas Fuels, Inc. to Build LNG Production Platform in Texas  (Project Dated: 10/31/2013)

 

GDF Suez to Operate Uruguay's First FLNG Terminal  (Agreement Dated: 10/31/2013)

 

DSME Awards Veolia's MPPE Water Treatment Technology Contract for Ichthys LNG Project  (Contract Dated: 10/31/2013)

 

Finland’s Gasum Gets Approval for LNG Terminal  (Project Dated: 10/30/2013)

 

Reliance Power Pulls Out of Proposed LNG Terminal JV with Shell  (Article Dated: 10/30/2013)

 

Freeport LNG Signs 20-year Liquefaction Tolling Agreement with Toshiba  (Agreement Dated: 10/30/2013)

 

Novatek, CNPC and Chinese Banks Conclude Memorandum On Project Financing For Yamal LNG  (Project Dated: 10/30/2013)

 

Freeport LNG Expects 3rd Train FID by End-2014  (Project Dated: 10/30/2013)

 

East Timor Offers New Bid of $800 Mln for Onshore Gas Processing  (Project Dated: 10/30/2013)

 

Oman LNG and Qalhat LNG Join Forces  (Article Dated: 10/30/2013)

 

BG Group May Buy Gas Fields in Canada to Produce LNG for Asia  (Article Dated: 10/30/2013)

 

ConocoPhillips Warns of Possible LNG Oversupply  (Article Dated: 10/30/2013)

 

FMC Awarded $340 Mln Contract for Ghana's TEN Project  (Contract Dated: 10/29/2013)

 

Huge Estimates of Untapped Shale Oil in Australia’s Arckaringa Basin  (Article Dated: 10/29/2013)

 

Williams Seeks Approval to Increase Transco Leidy Gas Pipeline Capacity  (Project Dated: 10/28/2013)

 

Kinder Morgan Agrees to Eagle Ford Shale Oil Pipeline  (Agreement Dated: 10/28/2013)

 

Global Surge in Oil and Gas Exploration Fuels Upstream Oil and Gas Market in SE Asia  (Analysis Dated: 10/28/2013)

 

Marathon Oil and Partners Announce Approval for Atrush Development in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region  (Project Dated: 10/28/2013)

 

Pemex Commissions Compression Plant for Offshore Litoral Gas  (Contract Dated: 10/28/2013)

 

Petrobras Awards $260 Mln Umbilicals, Flex Pipe Contract for Presalt Development Offshore Brazil  (Contract Dated: 10/28/2013)

 

Ithaca Energy’s North Sea Stella Project Enters Drilling, Subsea Installation Phase  (Project Dated: 10/28/2013)

 

Lundin Wins Approval for First Offshore Malaysia Project  (Plans Dated: 10/28/2013)

 

Nova Scotia‘s Sable Island Gas Project to Undergo Month-Long Work  (Project Dated: 10/25/2013)

 

Oceaneering Announces New Build Subsea Support Vessel  (Project Dated: 10/25/2013)

 

Helix Energy Solutions Awards Huisman Contract for Well Intervention System  (Contract Dated: 10/25/2013)

 

Hess Sells Storage Terminal Network to Buckeye Partners for $850 Mln  (Purchase Dated: 10/25/2013)

 

Morgan Stanley Reports Subsea Segment Remains a Bright Spot  (Report Dated: 10/25/2013)

 

Primus Green Energy Commissions Demo GTL Plant in New Jersey  (Article Dated: 10/25/2013)

 

Small Earthquake Hits Spain’s East Coast near Castor Gas Storage Project  (Article Dated: 10/25/2013)

 

Norway Drops Large Scale Plans for Mongstad Carbon Capture Project    (Project Cancelled Dated: 10/25/2013)

 

Three Eagle Ford Counties are Texas’ Biggest Oil Producers  (Article Dated: 10/24/2013)

 

Chesapeake Energy Gets $1.7 Bln in Financing for Shale Play  (Investment Dated: 10/24/2013)

 

George Washington National Forest "Fracking" Foes to Release Report  (Report Dated: 10/24/2013)

 

Radiation in Pennsylvania Creek Seen as Legacy of Fracking  (Study Dated: 10/24/2013)

 

Wood Group Forms $1 Bln Siemens JV to Boost Gas Turbines  (Joint Venture Dated: 10/24/2013)

 

Crestwood Seeking Oil and Natural Gas Liquids Midstream Deals after Inergy Merger  (Merger Dated: 10/24/2013)

 

Gohta Oil Discovery Reveals More Finds in Norway’s Barents Sea  (Discovery Dated: 10/24/2013)

 

Alfa Laval Wins Natural Gas Order for LNG Plant in the U.S.  (Order Dated: 10/23/2013)

 

Dakota Plains Provides Operations Update for Pioneer Terminal Expansion Project  (Project Dated: 10/23/2013)

 

Jacobs Expands Its South Africa Engineering Business  (Acquisition Dated: 10/23/2013)

 

PG&E Starts Pipeline Shutdown under Court Order  (Article Dated: 10/23/2013)

 

Williams and Boardwalk Sign Joint Venture Agreements for Proposed LPG Export Terminal  (Project Dated: 10/23/2013)

 

Kinder Morgan Opens Its BOSTCO Oil Terminal Project on Houston Ship Channel  (Project Dated: 10/23/2013)

 

OriginOil Signs Contract with Industrial Systems to Clean Oil Field Water  (Contract Dated: 10/23/2013)

 

Jacobs Receives $200 Mln Contract from BP in Scotland  (Contract Dated: 10/23/2013)

 

Enterprise Plans New U.S. Gulf LPG Export Terminal  (Plans Dated: 10/22/2013)

 

Emerson Acquires U.S. Safety Controls Firm Enardo  (Acquisition Dated: 10/22/2013)

 

More than Forty Oil and Gas Spills Related to Colorado Flooding  (Article Dated: 10/22/2013)

 

Air Products to Supply Hydrogen, Other Gases to BPCL India Refinery  (Agreement Dated: 10/22/2013)

 

PTT Exploration Eyes International Oil and Gas Projects  (Article Dated: 10/22/2013)

 

Shell, Technip to Collaborate on Improving CO2 Capture Technologies  (Agreement Dated: 10/22/2013)

 

Gazprom Commissions Kaliningrad Underground Gas Storage Facility  (Article Dated: 10/18/2013)

 

Foster Wheeler Wins Contract for Peru Natural Gas Pipeline and Power Plant Projects  (Contract Dated: 10/18/2013)

 

Enterprise Announces Additional Expansion of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Export Facility  (Project Dated: 10/18/2013)

 

GE and Memsys Achieve Unconventional Gas Water Treatment Milestone  (Article Dated: 10/18/2013)

 

 

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Global Wastewater Monthly Newsletter Headlines

October 2013

 

This monthly update is devoted to wastewater infrastructure news around the world, outside of the United States and Canada, and is included as part of the McIlvaine’s Air & Water Monitoring World Markets.

 

AFRICA

 

Egypt:  EIB Approves €77 Million Loan for Nile Delta Wastewater Projects

 

ASIA

 

China:  Beijing's Rapid Population Growth has "Far Exceeded" Sewage Treatment Capacity

India:  CPCB Report Says One-third of the Capacity of Nationally-Funded STPs Goes Unused

India:  Sewage Project in Bandra Halted Due to Lack of Available Land

India:  Haryana to Build 4 Sewage Treatment Plants in Kurukshetra

India:  EPC Contractor Enters Water Sector with STP Project in Jamnagar

Malaysia:  Third Regional Sewage Treatment Plant to be completed by 2015

 

EUROPE

 

Czech Republic:  Spending on Sewage Treatment Systems Up 20% in 2012

Moldova:  Orhei WWTP Starts Up Using Constructed Wetlands Technology 

Spain:  Wastewater Treatment Suffers in 2014 Spanish Budget

Switzerland:  Wabag Awarded Contract for Windisch WWTP Expansion

 

MIDDLE EAST

 

Iraq:  Ministry Announces $77.2 Million Sanitation Project for Ziqar Governate

Palestine:  EU, Germany Will Provide €42 Million in Funding for a WWTP in Nablus

Saudi Arabia:  Water Ministry Announces US$147 Million in New Water and Sanitation Projects

 

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA

 

Brazil:  Singapore’s GIC Invests US$140 Million in Brazilian Water Sector

 

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MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS UPDATE HEADLINES October 2013

  

ALABAMA

Fairhope WWTP to Get $10.8 Million Upgrade

 

ARIZONA

Show Low Requesting Bids for Wastewater Project

 

CALIFORNIA

Santa Rosa Plans $40 Million Upgrade for WWTP

VVRA Receives Funding for WWTP Project

Desalitech to Supply Advanced Wastewater Treatment Pilot System to LA County Sanitation Districts

Hesperia Planning $30 Million WWTP Project

Pacific Grove Pursues 5-Part Water Plan

$11.7 Million for Holtsville Wastewater Project

San Diego to make Water Reuse Decision

 

COLORADO

$13.5 Million for Repairs for Northern Colorado Water, Sewer Systems

 

CONNECTICUT

$5 Million for Plainfield Wastewater Projects

 

FLORIDA

$25 Million for Daytona WWTP

 

GEORGIA

Hall County Wastewater Plan being considered

Madison Considers New Equipment for WWTP

Warner Robbins WWTP undergoing $28 Million Upgrade

Forsyth County to Build New $31 Million Wastewater Plant

Gwinnett Approves $16 Million Project for Water Plant

 

IDAHO

Jerome to Upgrade WWTP

$5 Million for Effingham Water Treatment Plant, Sewer System Improvements

Blackfoot Seeks $2.9 Million for Wastewater Plant Upgrade

 

ILLINOIS

Quincy Requesting Bids for WWTP Repairs

Chicago WWTP Discovers How to Harness Extra Energy at WWTP

 

IOWA

Northwood to Upgrade Wastewater Plant

 

LOUISIANA

Franklinton WWTP Repair Project in Design Phase

Construction of $12 Million Plaquemine WWTP Begins

 

MASSACHUSETTS

Otsego Planning WWTP Improvements

 

MICHIGAN

New Baltimore to develop Asset Management Plan for WWTP

Maryville to Apply for Storm, Wastewater Grant

 

MINNESOTA

Mabel City accepts Bids for Water, Sewer Projects

Blooming Prairie Updates WWTP

 

MISSISSIPPI

West Point Upgrading WWTP

 

MISSOURI

$32 Million Requested for Columbia’s Wastewater Plant Upgrades

$6.25 Million for Taney County WWTP Project

 

MONTANA

MT Treatment Plant to Receive Upgrades for Nutrient Removal Requirements

 

NEW HAMPSHIRE

$40 Million for Exeter WWTP

 

NEW JERSEY

Mendham Township receives Grant for WWTP Upgrade

 

NEW MEXICO

$31 Million for Albuquerque WWTP Upgrade

$5.5 Million for New WWTP in Cimarron

 

NEW YORK

Rome OKs Bond for $3 Million for WWTP Repairs

Bay Park WWTP Begins Repairs

Watertown Proceeding with Plans to Produce Methane Gas

EPA Orders Middleton to Address Clean Water Act Violations

$262 Million for Bay Park WWTP Upgrade including Odor Control

 

NORTH DAKOTA

Watford Planning for Mechanical Wastewater Treatment

 

OHIO

Columbus Begins $25 Million WWTP Upgrade

Stark County Begins WWTP Improvement Project

Tuscarawas County WWTP Needs Upgrade

Massillon to Vote on $24 Million Upgrade to WWTP

 

OREGON

Glendale Working to Resolve Wastewater Plant Problems

PENNSYLVANIA

Spring City to Upgrade WWTP

 

SOUTH CAROLINA

Georgetown WWTP Out of Compliance

 

TENNESSEE

Pegram Pursues $449,000 Sewer Loan

 

WEST VIRGINIA

Berkeley County Planning $47 Million Upgrade to WWTPs

 

CANADA

Regina Referendum Results in Favor of P3 Sewage Plant

 

BUSINESS NEWS

Wastewater Treatment Solutions Highlighted at WEFTEC

 

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