Archive for the ‘Petrochemicals’ Category
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…
Gazprom, partner advance LNG-chemical plan
April 2nd, 2019 by Latest News
Gazprom and RusGasDobycha have begun implementing plans for a large natural gas liquefaction and processing complex on the Gulf of Finland near Ust-Luga, Russia. The companies decided on final configuration of the complex, which will process 45 billion…
Borealis lets contract for Kallo PDH unit
April 2nd, 2019 by Latest News
Borealis AG, Vienna, has let a contract to a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont SPA for work related to the operator’s previously announced plan to build a grassroots propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant at its existing production site in Kallo, Belgium.
Confusion about precision and accuracy works deviously in the politics of climate. It glows, for example, in a Mar. 20 judicial finding that the Bureau of Land Management fell short in its assessment of climate effects when it issued oil and gas leases…
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,…
The joint venture of Fluor Corp. and TechnipFMC PLC has completed delivery of engineering, procurement, and construction management services on Sasol Ltd.’s long-planned Lake Charles Chemicals Project (LCCP), an integrated ethane cracker and downstream…
Texas Atty. Gen Ken Paxton filed an environmental lawsuit against Intercontinental Terminals Co. on Mar. 22 following a fire that broke out at the company’s petrochemical storage facility at LaPorte near Houston on Mar. 17 and was not contained until 3…
Ineos is planning to double the size of subsidiary Ineos Oxide’s proposed ethylene oxide and ethylene oxide derivatives plant to be built somewhere along the US Gulf Coast. Part of Ineos’ plan to address a fast-growing EO merchant market as well as the…
Abu Dhabi Polymers Co. Ltd. (Borouge), a joint venture of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Borealis AG, has let a contract to WorleyParsons to provide project management consultancy for the proposed expansion of Borouge’s integrated polyolefins complex i…