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Henghe and SES Enter into Exclusive Period for License Negotiation While Project Approvals are Obtained HOUSTON, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hainan Dongfang Henghe Energy Development Company Ltd., ("Henghe"), based in Hainan Province, China, has selected Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. ("SES) (Nasdaq: SYMX) for a large scale, 10 billion RMB (US$1.6 billion) coal waste to synthetic natural gas ("SNG") project in Jiangxi Province, China. The Jiangxi Province project will be...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE:APD) has introduced its new GASGUARD® AP11 controller for specialty gas delivery systems. To develop the AP11, Air Products combined customer feedback, the real world experiences of our on-site MEGASYS(®) total gas and chemical management teams, and millions of operating hours at sites around the world to provide next generation control technology for our specialty gas equipment customers. The new AP11...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products' pursuit and success in developing large air separation unit (ASU) projects in China has been bolstered with the winning of the second largest ASU onsite order ever awarded to the company for a single project. Air Products (NYSE: APD) announced today the signing of a long-term agreement with Shanxi Lu'An Mining (Group) Co., Ltd. for Air Products to build, own and operate four ASUs producing oxygen, nitrogen, compressed...

HOUSTON, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- IHI E&C International Corporation based in Houston, Texas, a wholly owned subsidiary of IHI Corporation headquartered in Tokyo, has been selected by Dakota Gasification Company (DGC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Basin Electric Power Cooperative of Bismarck, North Dakota, to perform a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study for a 1,100 - 2,200 short tons per day urea plant at its facility near Beulah, North Dakota. (Photo:...

HOUSTON, Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMX) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with an undisclosed leading global technology provider to define a product that integrates the SES gasification technology with the provider's globally deployed process. The integration of SES technology with this process would allow the provider to use low cost, low quality coal as a feedstock in an environmentally favorable way. This effort...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced the signing of an agreement to expand its existing syngas separation unit (SSU) in Geismar, Louisiana to increase the supply of carbon monoxide (CO). The increased capacity of CO is mainly for the supply of BASF's publicly-announced world-scale formic acid plant to be built at BASF's Geismar Verbund site. The facility expansion will also provide Air Products increased hydrogen production...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced it has been awarded the contract to supply two oxygen plants at the site of a copper smelter being built in Zambia by Kansanshi Mining Plc. The scope of the agreement includes Air Products supply of two 750 metric ton per day oxygen plants, and all air separation unit (ASU) related equipment and design. The construction of the facility will be undertaken by Kansanshi Mining Plc, with cooperation...

LAKE CHARLES, La., Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lake Charles Clean Energy (LCCE), LLC announced today that it has secured major long-term commercial offtake contracts with BP Products North America Inc., Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and Denbury Onshore LLC, a subsidiary of Denbury Resources Inc., for the Lake Charles Clean Energy project located at the Port of Lake Charles, Louisiana. LCCE is a subsidiary of Leucadia Energy, LLC. Securing long-term commercial offtake...

By Sue Loughlin, The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind. Jul. 26--A coal gasification plant north of Terre Haute faces a potential $27,000 in fines for serious safety violations in connection with an April 28 explosion that killed two people, according to the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The accident, which occurred at SG Solutions at 444 W. Sandford Ave., was attributed to a faulty flange that resulted in synthetic gas exploding. Two workers, Danny Turner of...