Archive for the ‘Petrochemicals’ Category
Hyundai Chemical, a joint venture of Hyundai Oilbank and Lotte Chemical, has let a contract to W.R. Grace & Co. to provide technology licensing for a grassroots polypropylene unit at its Daesan petrochemical complex under construction in Chung…
ADNOC, OCI form fertilizer joint venture
June 18th, 2019 by Latest News
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has entered a strategic partnership that will combine ADNOC Fertilizers into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) nitrogen fertilizer business of OCI. The new joint venture “will become the largest export-focused nitrogen …
A joint venture of Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp. and ExxonMobil has let a contract to a consortium of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Zachry Group to provide construction work on a new unit at the JV’s recently approved Gulf Coast Growth Venture…
SABIC and ExxonMobil are proceeding with their previously announced plan to build the Gulf Coast Growth Ventures project, a 1.8 million-tonne/year ethane cracker currently planned for construction in San Patricio County, Tex. The ExxonMobil-SABIC …
Petrobras advances downstream divestment plans
June 12th, 2019 by Latest News
Petrobras has signed a commitment agreement with Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense consolidating an understanding between the parties on the operator’s previously announced plan to divest its Brazilian refining assets.
Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Industries, a joint venture of state-owned Oman Oil and Kuwait Petroleum subsidiary Kuwait Petroleum International, has let a contract to John Wood Group to provide front-end engineering design for a proposed onshore p…
Sasol has commissioned the second of seven production units scheduled to come online as part of its long-planned Lake Charles Chemicals Project, an integrated ethane cracker and downstream derivatives complex under construction in Westlake, La., near L…
SOCAR, Tefken eye urea plant in Azerbaijan
May 31st, 2019 by Latest News
State Oil Co. of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and Tekfen Holding, Istanbul, have signed a memorandum of understanding on construction of a urea production facility at Sumgayit, Azerbaijan.
EPP, Lavaca to build Baymark ethylene pipeline
May 30th, 2019 by Latest News
Enterprise Products Partners reported plans to extend its ethylene pipeline and logistics system further into South Texas, “a leading growth area for crackers and ethylene derivative plants.” The Baymark ethylene pipeline will originate in the Bayport …
Shell weighs plan for Louisiana MEG plant
May 20th, 2019 by Latest News
Royal Dutch Shell PLC subsidiary Shell Chemical LP is advancing feasibility studies for a potential $1.2-billion manufacturing expansion of monoethylene glycol (MEG) production at its 841-acre Geismar chemicals complex in Ascension Parish, La.