Baltic Chemical Complex, through its contractor, has let a contract to Lummus Technology to provide engineering and equipment for BCC’s ethane cracking project under construction on the Gulf of Finland near Ust-Luga, in Russia’s Leningrad region.

Russia’s Ministry of Energy agreed to an incentive plan that will allow PJSC Lukoil to complete the deep conversion, delayed coking complex now under construction at subsidiary LLC Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez’s Kstovo refinery in central Russia.

Gazprom and RusGasDobycha have terminated an earlier contract let to Nipigaz for delivery of EPC services on the natural gas processing portion of the planned gas processing, liquefaction, and chemical complex to be operated by RusKhimAlyans.

PJSC Tatneft has received support from Russia’s Ministry of Energy to help finance the addition of several new advanced processing units at the more than 10-million tonnes/year refinery of subsidiary JSC Taneco’s complex in Nizhnekamsk, Russia.