Archive for the ‘Construction’ Category
Lotte Chemical USA and Westlake Chemical have completed their long-planned $3.1-billion grassroots petrochemical project in southwest Louisiana. The state of Louisiana alongside Lotte and Westlake officials held a dedication ceremony for the compl…
Indorama Ventures Olefins, an indirect subsidiary of Thailand’s Indorama Ventures, has achieved mechanical completion of its previously announced project to renovate and restart a dormant ethane cracker in Westlake, La., just west of Lake Charles in Ca…
ExxonMobil Corp. is planning a $2-billion investment to expand its Baytown, Tex., chemical plant. Scheduled for startup in 2022, the expansion will include a performance polymer unit that will produce about 400,000 tonnes/year of Vistamaxx polymers, Ex…
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. subsidiary ADNOC Refining (formerly Takreer) has let a contract to McDermott International Inc. to deliver front-end engineering and design for a refinery offgas project at the combined 817,000-b/d refinery in Ruwais, in the …
Raven Petroleum has received an air permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for a proposed 30,000-b/d crude fractionation unit in South Texas. The planned fractionator is to be sited in Duval County, Tex., at the crossroads of th…
Chennai Petroleum Corp., a partly owned subsidiary of Indian Oil Corp., has let a contract to Chevron Lummus Global—a joint venture of McDermott International Inc. and Chevron Corp.—to provide technology licensing for a delayed coking unit at CPCL’s pr…
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) subsidiary Port Harcourt Refining Co. Ltd. (PHRC) has let a contract to Maire Tecnimont SPA subsidiaries to provide services as part of the first leg of a long-planned rehabilitation project at the Port Harcourt…
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) has started up a revamped unit now based on composite ionic liquid (IL) alkylation technology at subsidiary Sinopec Jiujiang Co.’s 161,000-b/d refinery in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, China.
ExxonMobil Corp. has taken a final investment decision on a multibillion-dollar expansion to convert fuel oil and other bottom-of-the-barrel crude products into higher-value lube base stocks and distillates at subsidiary ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Lt…
Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical Co. has let a contract to a China-based joint-venture of John Wood Group PLC to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for a 1 million-tonne/year ethylene expansion project at its 240,…