Archive for the ‘Petrochemicals’ Category
Equinor issues assay for Hebron crude
February 4th, 2019 by Latest News
Based on a sample taken July 27, 2018, Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil ASA) on Oct. 24, 2018, issued a commercial assay of heavy, medium-sulfur Hebron crude (OGJ Online, Nov. 29, 2017; Jan. 4, 2013).
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.
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk. (CAP) subsidiary PT Chandra Asri Perkasa (CAP2) has let an additional contract to McDermott International Inc. to provide process technology for CAP2’s planned petrochemical complex in Indonesia.
Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. has let a contract to Honeywell UOP and Honeywell Process Solutions to provide a range of process technologies, engineering design, equipment, catalysts and adsorbents, and advanced automation controls for units to be install…
Ineos AG has selected Antwerp, Belgium, as the site for its previously announced plan to build both a grassroots ethane cracker and propane dehydrogenation unit in northern Europe. To be co-located with Ineos’ existing polymer-production sites in …
NKNK lets contract for methanol unit
January 14th, 2019 by Latest News
PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) has let a contract to Haldor Topsoe to deliver technology licensing and engineering services for a methanol unit to be built at NKNK’s petrochemical complex at Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan. The 500,000-tonne/year unit will be…
Hanwha Total Petrochemicals, a 50-50 joint venture of Hanwha Group and Total, has let a contract to W.R. Grace & Co. to provide technology licensing for a grassroots polypropylene unit at its Daesan petrochemical complex in Chungnam Province, South…
State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic has commissioned a bitumen plant as part of program designed to modernize and expand operations at the company’s Heydar Aliyev (formerly New Baku) refinery at Baku in Azerbaijan, completing the first phase of the 12…
South Louisiana Methanol (SLM) and new joint-venture partner Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp. are planning a $2.2-billion capital investment to build a grassroots methanol complex in St. James Parish, La. Originally announced in 2013 as a project o…
Shell Chemical has commissioned its $717-million project to increase alpha olefins production at its Geismar, La., chemical manufacturing plant along the Mississippi River, about 20 miles south of Baton Rouge. Initially started up in December 2018, the…