US spot refinery-grade propylene declined 0.75 cents/lb Thursday to reach a five-month low as propylene markets weaken, according to sources. Spot RGP was assessed at 58-58.5 cents/lb delivered, after May and June buying bids were heard ...
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan decided to not move forward with their proposed joint venture to construct a Linear Alpha Olefins unit on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Accordingly, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
European polypropylene and polyethylene producers are targeting a May contract price increase because of low stock availability and seasonal demand, sources said. PE producers were aiming for increases of Eur20-60/mt ($28-83/mt) and PP ...
Tags: Polyolefin, PE, ethylene CP
US spot ethylene settled at a 12-week high Thursday to be assessed at 56.5-57 cents/lb FD USG, up 3 cents/lb week on week, as a delay in the startup of a major transmission line between Texas and Louisiana, tightening supply amid a busy ...
Permit will help achieve reductions in carbon pollution and cleaner sources of energy The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas permit (GHG) to Equistar Chemicals, Corpus Christi, Texas. The permit ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, certification, Gas
Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding Company, a subsidiary of Qatar Petroleum partially floated on the Qatar Exchange, and one of the region’s premier diversified petrochemical conglomerates with interests in the production, distribution ...
Flying a radio-controlled replica of the historic WWII P-51 Mustang red-tail aircraft—of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen—NRL researchers (l to r) Dr. Jeffrey Baldwin, Dr. Dennis Hardy, Dr. Heather Willauer, and Dr. David Drab ...
Tags: Energy, liquid hydrocarbon fuel, fuel
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with the Homeca Recycling Center Co, Inc. and Tallaboa Industrial Park, LLC to clean up asbestos that spread from a building in the Tallaboa Industrial Park during demolition ...
Tags: Service, certification, EPA, EPA Certification
Russia's Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat has launched a new pyrolisis furnace at its Monomer petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan, in the Urals region of Russia, and expects its ethylene and propylene output this year will increase by around 13%, ...
Tags: ethylene output, ethylene
Counter bids for the April Asian Contract Price for paraxylene are seen to come in at around $1,050-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. The four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and ...
Tags: Paraxylene, PTA market, PTA producers
Presently, several petrochemical projects are either under construction or expansion and Indonesia is on its way to become self-sufficient in the production of olefins like ethylene and propylene, aromatic and other petrochemical products ...
Tags: Petrochemicals Self-Sufficiency, petrochemical projects
As the United States continues to lead the world in the production of natural gas, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised a new and more efficient method with the potential to convert the ...
US polyethylene contracts rose 4 cents/lb in February after producers were successful in implementing the hike that had been anticipated since the end of 2013, market sources said. Producer sources had expressed confidence in obtaining ...
Tags: Polyethylene, Chemicals
European olefin buyers said they are more optimistic about a decrease in ethylene contract prices than propylene for February, amid tightness in propylene. Buyers are aiming for a fall in both contract prices following the direction of ...
Tags: Spot propylene, CIF NWE, FD NWE, deep sea import
Ethylene spot prices have softened marginally for the first time since December 6 as feedstock naphtha prices fell, sources said. Ethylene was assessed at Eur1,000/mt ($1362) FD NWE Wednesday, down Eur7.50/mt on the day. Naphtha was ...