The Shaw Group Inc. has renewed a contract with Baton Rouge-based specialty chemical maker Albemarle Corp. to provide engineering, procurement and construction services at Albemarle plants in Arkansas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas.

Earth Day Network, in partnership with The UPS Foundation, on May 17 unveiled what the group is calling the first large-scale biodiesel production facility at a school in the Northeast at Newton, Mass., as the centerpiece of Newton North High School’s showcase Biodiesel Production and Education Program.

Houston-based Merchant Energy Partners LLC will sponsor a ground-breaking ceremony on May 23 for its US$300-million East Cheyenne gas storage (ECGS) project near Sterling, Colo.

San Francisco-based biodiesel producer Next Fuel, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement with PT Enviro Energy to field-test its coal-to-gas (CTG) technology to determine the commercial viability of utilizing it to produce natural gas at PT Enviro’s coal deposits in Indonesia.

Shell-Americas Chief Marvin Odum was quoted in a May 19 Bloomberg report as saying that the shale-gas boom in the U.S., combined with relatively high crude-oil prices, could potentially open the door to another Shell gas-to-liquids (GTL) Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuels project – this time in the U.S.

U.S. specialty chemical maker H.B. Fuller Co. has officially opened its new adhesives plant in Nanjing, capital city of east China’s Jiangsu province, according to a May 19 report by Asia Pulse Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)