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Bulgarian refinery to upgrade with Axens’ technology
Lukoil Neftochim Burgas AD, a subsidiary of the Russian oil major Lukoil (Moscow; www.lukoil.com), has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net)  to design and license technologies to convert Urals blend vacuum residue and gasoil (VGO) at...

Alstom to build a 1,280 MW CC power plant in Holland
Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com) signed with Dutch utility Essent a series of contracts worth up to 1-billion euro for the repowering of Claus B and the construction of Claus C, resulting in a 1,280 MW GT26-based combined-cycle (CC) power plant...

Veolia wins Sines Plant environmental project
La Seda de Barcelona (LSB; Spain; www.laseda.es) has awarded the project of environmental services for the industrial plant Artenius Sines, a subsidiary of the Spanish multinational located in Portuguese city of Sines, to the French company Veolia...

S-Oil selects ParamaX technologies
S-Oil Corp. (Seoul, Korea; www.s-oil.com/eng) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) ParamaX Technology Suite for the No.2 Aromatics complex at the Onsan refinery in South Korea. The new 1,180,000-m.t./yr plant will add capacities...

Saudi Aramco and Total select Axens Technologies
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France www.axens.net) has been awarded a design package for the new, 400,000 bbl/d, world class, full-conversion refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The refining and petrochemical complex is scheduled to start-up in 2012. Among the units...

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