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The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) announced today that its Energy & Chemicals Group has been awarded contracts by Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) to provide its proprietary ethylene technology, including its Ultra Selective Conversion (USC(R)) furnace equipment, basic engineering and technical services for a 1,000 KTA ethylene plant in Brazil. Shaw also will provide similar services for the recovery section of a petrochemical fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) unit, in which the converter...

Rive Technology, a leading catalyst engineering company for the petroleum refining industry, announced today that it will commence operations of a 10,000 square foot research and development facility in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey this November. Rive Technology is the developer of proprietary zeolite catalyst technology that expands characteristically small zeolite pores to enable the conversion of inexpensive, heavy crude oil into valuable, refined products such as transportation fuel....

SpectraSensors, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of precision optical laser-based gas analyzers that enable the petrochemical industry to get cleaner, better fuels to market faster, has announced the general availability of three new products designed specifically to improve process efficiency in refineries and chemical plants. Process efficiency is a highly critical yet often overlooked aspect of the environmental impacts from energy and chemical production. Improved process...

Carbon Sciences Inc. (OTCBB: CABN), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, today commented on the application of its CO2-to-Fuel technology in the production of gasoline by existing oil refineries. With global population projected to increase from 6.5 billion in 2006 to 8.5 billion by 2030, the Energy Information Administration projected that worldwide energy consumption will increase by 50% in the same period....

Oil and gas industry process provider UOP has signed a technology co-operation agreement with Brazilian integrated energy major Petrobras and chemical firm Albemarle, to demonstrate and further the commercialization of its catalytic crude upgrading process technology. Under the agreement, UOP will provide the technology, equipment and system design. Albemarle will provide an improved fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst to be used in the process. Petrobras, which has already run the...

BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Albemarle Corporation , a leading global supplier of catalysts and additives for petroleum refining and alternative fuel production, has certified TRICAT Industries, Inc., as a supplier of catalyst regeneration services, for commercial application of REACT(TM) technology for the rejuvenation of STARS(R) hydroprocessing catalysts. Effective immediately, TRICAT will be able to offer REACT products and services to refiners worldwide. (Logo:...

Skanska, a construction and project development company, has secured a contract to build a sulfur recovery unit and a tail gas treatment unit at Capuava refinery in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The total contract value is $125 million. Skanska has a 40% share in the contract equal to $50 million, which has been included in order bookings for the third quarter. The sulfur recovery unit (SRU) facility will have a capacity to recover 20 tons per day of sulfur and the tail gas treatment unit (TGTU) will...

Noble Metal Group Incorporated (TSX VENTURE: NMG) - Noble Hydrocarbons Alta Ltd. on April 3, 2007 entered into a Technology License Agreement with Global Resource Holdings L.P. Infinity Petroleum, LLC and Dragon Keystone, LLC of Irving, Texas now located at Frisco, Texas. This Technology Agreement originally entered into on April 3, 2007 provided NHA with the exclusive right to use technologies known as Insitu Hycraft for all of Canada and Cracking Hycraft on NHA's properties in Canada for...

DALLAS, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 5, 2008, the United States Patent Office issued patent number 7,408,091, Process for Liquid Phase Hydrogenation, to Dallas-based Synfuels International. The revolutionary Synfuels technology, discovered at Texas A&M University and commercialized by Synfuels International, allows the natural gas industry to take a giant leap forward in process efficiency. Synfuels GTL & GTE processes are also designed to be located upstream, in the field where gas...

Willbros Group, Inc. (NYSE: WG) announced today that Management will present at the Enercom 2008 Oil & Gas Conference in Denver to be held August 11 - 14, 2008. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, August 13, 2008, at 8:50 a.m. Mountain Time. The presentation is expected to last approximately 20 minutes. A live broadcast of the presentation will be available online on the Company's home page at www.willbros.com. Willbros Group, Inc. is an independent contractor serving the...