Ulsan Aromatics, a joint venture between South Korea’s SK Global Chemical and Japan’s JX Nippon Oil and Energy has planned to build a new Paraxylene (PX) plant in Ulsan, South Korea. A SK Global Chemical company official ...
South Korea's S-Oil nominated its paraxylene Asia Contract Price for March at $1,750/mt, up $65/mt from its February settlement, sources close to the negotiations said Monday. There are four ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Idemitsu ...
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Japan based JX Nippon Oil and Energy Corp which has undertaken a maintenance turnaround at its paraxylene (PX) facility will restart the plant in March. A company spokesperson informed fibre2fashion that the PX plant which was ...
The UK government Friday gave its consent to Norway's Statoil to go ahead with the $7 billion Mariner oil field development which is set to be the UK's biggest new North Sea project in more than a decade. Statoil took the final ...
Japan's JX Nippon Oil & Energy sold a total 44.04 million kiloliters, or 1.01 million b/d, of oil products in the domestic market over April-December 2012, up 5.3% year on year, JX Holdings, the parent company of the largest Japanese ...
The four paraxylene Asia Contract Price-based sellers, ExxonMobil, Idemitsu Kosan, JX Nippon Oil and Energy and S-Oil, who typically lower their nominations to meet bid levels have not done so for the February ACP as spot prices have ...
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ExxonMobil's Papua New Guinea LNG plant is on schedule to start up and ship its first LNG in 2014, Peter Botten, Managing Director of minority project shareholder Oil Search, said at a conference Thursday. The 6.9 million mt/year, ...
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Japan's largest refiner JX Nippon Oil & Energy has cut "slightly" its crude imports from Iran under a renewed annual contract beyond January 2013, company chairman Yasushi Kimura told Platts Monday. Speaking on the sidelines of a New Year ...
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Japan's largest refiner,JX Nippon Oil&Energy,plans to process 6.33 million kiloliters(39.8 million barrels or 1.28 million b/d)of crude oil for the domestic market,in January,down 1%year on year,a company official said Wednesday. The ...
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MNA cited Mr Yasushi Kimura chairman of JX Nippon Oil as saying that JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation renewed its term crude contract with Iran from January 2013. Mr Kimura said that JX has a term contract to buy an estimated 83,000 ...
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Japan’s imports of naphtha, a key raw material for production of ethylene used in the textile industry, grew by 5.3 percent month-on-month in October to 1.183 million tons, according to the figures released by the Ministry of Economy, ...
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A paraxylene(PX)plant to be set up in a joint venture between JX Nippon Oil&Energy and SK Global Chemicals is expected to start operations in mid-2014. “The construction of the plant being set up in Ulsan–South Korea is likely ...
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Japanese paraxylene (PX) producer – JX Nippon Oil and Energy has reduced the capacity rates at its PX plant located in Kashima. "Currently both the PX lines are operating at 70 percent capacity, mainly due to poor feedstock supply ...
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After a delay of around 13 days, a naphtha cracker owned by Japan-based JX Nippon Oil & Energy which underwent a turnaround, has restarted. A JX Nippon company official informed fibre2fashion that the cracker which was shutdown for ...
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