Archive for the ‘Petrochemicals’ Category
ExxonMobil Corp. will build a polypropylene unit at its facility at Baton Rouge that will expand production capacity along the US Gulf Coast by as much as 450,000 tonnes/year. Construction on the project—which will create as many as 600 jobs during the…
National Petrochemical Industrial Co., a Saudi joint-stock company, has let a contract to a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for the revamp of a plant at its 400,000-tonne/year propylene-polyp…
Saudi Aramco has signed a $10-billion agreement to form a joint venture with China North Industries Group Corp. (Norinco) and Panjin Sincen to develop a fully integrated, grassroots refining and petrochemical complex in Panjin, in China’s Liaoning prov…
SOCAR Polymer has started up a high-density polyethylene plant in the Sumgait Chemical Industrial Park about 30 km north of Baku. The 120,000-tonne/year HDPE plant, which officially began operating on Feb. 18, will produce four varieties of HDPE t…
Sasol has commissioned the first 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 La…
Sasol has commissioned the first 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 La…
Bangkok Synthetics Co. Ltd. has let a contract to Toyo Engineering Korea Ltd., a subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp., to provide engineering, procurement, and construction on two units at the operator’s existing petrochemical complex in Map Ta Phut, R…
Irkutsk Oil lets contract for East Siberian ethylene-polyethylene plant
February 6th, 2019 by Latest News
Irkutsk Polymer Plant, a subsidiary of Irkutsk Oil, has let a contract to Toyo Engineering to build a grassroots ethylene-polyethylene plant in Ust-Kut, in the Irkutsk Region of East Siberia. As part of the contract, Toyo will deliver engineering, proc…
CKPC reaches FID for PDH-PP complex in Alberta
February 5th, 2019 by Latest News
Canada Kuwait Petrochemical, a joint venture of Pembina Pipeline and Petrochemical Industries of Kuwait, has reached final investment decision to move forward with construction of its proposed grassroots integrated propane dehydrogenation and…
Saudi Aramco has signed a joint development and collaboration agreement (JDCA) with Axens SA and TechnipFMC PLC to accelerate development and commercialization of subsidiary Saudi Aramco Technologies Co.’s catalytic crude-to-chemicals (CC2C) technology.