ExxonMobil and Kellogg Brown & Root Finalize Technology Alliance for Fluid Catalytic Cracking Technology.Business Editors ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company of Fairfax, Va. and Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (KBR KBR Kellogg, Brown and Root KBr Potassium Bromide KBR Key-Based Routing KBR Kota Bharu, Malaysia - Sultan Ismail Petra (Airport Code) KBR Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België / Bibliothèque royale de Belgique ) of Houston announced today that they have formed a new worldwide technology alliance for Fluid Catalytic cat·a·lyt·ic adj. Of, involving, or acting as a catalyst: "Deregulation's catalytic power . . . is still reshaping the banking, communications, and transportation industries" Ellyn E. Cracking cracking - cracker (FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. ) technology. This alliance, which now includes ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company's successful FCC technology, builds upon a successful FCC alliance between The M. W. Kellogg Company For other uses, see Kellogg. Kellogg Company (often referred to as simply Kellogg or Kellogg's) is an American multinational producer of breakfast foods, snack foods, cookies, and crackers, with corporate headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA. and Mobil Oil Corporation dating back to 1991. The alliance's strength is in the experience all parties bring in the development and commercialization of market-leading FCC technology. As leaders in FCC technology since the early 1940's, KBR and ExxonMobil have designed over 200 grassroots units worldwide and have revamped hundreds of others with new and improved technology. The new alliance will offer the best of both companies' FCC technology features to the refining refining, any of various processes for separating impurities from crude or semifinished materials. It includes the finer processes of metallurgy, the fractional distillation of petroleum into its commercial products, and the purifying of cane, beet, and maple sugar industry. Joint development will begin immediately to improve and create new technology features that will address the challenges facing FCC operators today. The combined resources of both companies' research, development and engineering organizations and the ability to rapidly commercialize new technologies offer unparalleled opportunities for the advancement of FCC technology. A staff of FCC technology experts from both companies will guide the alliance allowing for a full range of services including studies, design, start up and technical services support for the market. KBR is an international, technology-based engineering and construction company, which provides a full spectrum of industry-leading services to the hydrocarbon hydrocarbon (hī'drōkär`bən), any organic compound composed solely of the elements hydrogen and carbon. The hydrocarbons differ both in the total number of carbon and hydrogen atoms in their molecules and in the proportion of hydrogen , chemical, energy, forest products industries, and to governments and public infrastructure industries. KBR's parent company - Halliburton - was founded in 1919 and is one of the world's largest providers of energy services. Its web site can be accessed at www.halliburton.com. ExxonMobil is a leading global oil, natural gas, and petrochemicals company whose subsidiaries have operations in nearly 200 countries and territories. Additional information regarding ExxonMobil and technologies it licenses can be found at www.exxonmobil.com/refiningtechnologies. |
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