http://www.industrialinfo.com/ 2008 Industrial Info Resources, Inc. 360 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:18:02 -0600 http://www.industrialinfo.com/ http://www.industrialinfo.com/images/indalert.gif 210 29 http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=151996 Holly Corporation (NYSE:HOC) (Dallas, Texas) has selected The Benham Companies LLC (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) to perform preliminary design for an ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) project at a newly acquired refinery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Holly is planning to purchase Sinclair Oil Corporation's (Salt Lake City, Utah) Tulsa refinery for $128.5 million and expects to close on the sale by the end of the year.

Other companies featured: ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP)]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:18:02 -0600 http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=151123 KBR Incorporated (NYSE:KBR) (Houston, Texas) has secured a contract from integrated energy company Suncor Energy Incorporated (NYSE:SU) (Calgary, Alberta) to provide services for the latter's 2010 turnaround project being implemented at Suncor's oil sands plant in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Under the contract, KBR Canada (Calgary) will manage, plan and execute the shutdown and maintenance activities of the plant, including direct hire of the labor force, the management of subcontractors, and the coordination of activities between Suncor's workforce and other contractors hired during the turnaround.]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:18:02 -0600 http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=151333 Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) (Munich, Germany), has won six wind turbine orders across North America, with a combined value of $900 million. The orders represent a potential power generation capacity of more than 565 megawatts (MW).]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:18:02 -0600 http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=151635 Power Industry officially entered the carbon-sequestration era. That's when officials from American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) (Columbus, Ohio) and Alstom Power, a unit of Alstom SA (EPA:ALO) (Levallois-Perret, France), pushed a button to begin sequestering carbon-dioxide emissions from AEP's Mountaineer Power Station in New Haven, West Virginia. As evidence has mounted that burning fossil fuels is connected to an increase in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, utilities and coal companies have stepped up their search for cost-effective ways to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion. It may not be too much to suggest that the future of coal is riding on the results of the Mountaineer CCS validation project.]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:18:02 -0600 http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=151694 industry must begin spending capital in the region. This will create not only short-term construction jobs, but permanent jobs and supporting jobs in the communities where plants are located. Now that the recession is showing signs of easing, some of the much-needed spending is peeking out from behind the skirts of the corporate decision-makers; $10.7 billion worth of investment is heading to the Great Lakes region during the first quarter of 2010.]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:18:02 -0600