Archive for the ‘Processing’ 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…

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…

US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler extended temporary emergency fuel waivers on June 12 for Allegheny County, Pa. The waivers were due to expire on June 17.

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 …

The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers asked a federal appeals court to review the US Environmental Protection Agency’s authorization for gasoline with 15% ethanol (E15) to be sold year-round in the US. AFPM submitted its petition June 11 …

ExxonMobil Corp. has completed a project to expand production of high-quality lubricant base stocks at affiliate ExxonMobil Asia Pacific’s 592,000-b/d integrated, two-site refining complex on mainland Jurong and Pulau Ayer Chawan, Jurong Island, offsho…

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.

PBF Energy subsidiary PBF Holding Co. has entered an agreement with Royal Dutch Shell to purchase Shell subsidiary Equilon Enterprises’s (dba Shell Oil Products US) 157,000-b/d dual-coking refinery and integrated logistics assets at Martinez, Calif., f…

Eni SPA has signed a partnership agreement with NextChem, Maire Tecnimont’s green chemistry subsidiary, to become codeveloper of technology to produce hydrogen and methanol from solid urban waste and nonrecyclable plastic.