Shell Chemical has begun taking bids to secure ethane from Marcellus Shale operators for its proposed world-class petrochemical plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, the company said Tuesday. Shell is accepting bids for feedstock from ...
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Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies and The Dow Chemical Company have announced that PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina), China’s largest oil and gas producer and ...
Foster Wheeler AG announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a project management and consultancy (PMC) services contract by the Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Limited Liability ...
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Indonesia’s largest petrochemical firm PT Chandra Asri and German company Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH have signed an agreement to set up a methanol-based olefin production complex in Indonesian province of West Papua. ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has slashed its ex-works prices for butadiene by 16% effective late Monday, its second cut this month, end-users said Tuesday. With the latest reduction, Sinopec's subsidiaries in East, North ...
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Formosa Plastics USA has lifted force majeure declarations on its output of high molecular weight film polyethylene and polypropylene, company spokesman Steve Rice said Monday. The company issued the force majeure declaration on all of ...
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Veolia Water is to design, build and operate Saudi Arabia's largest ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis desalination plant at the Sadara Petrochemical Complex in Jubail City. The new 178 000 m3 per day plant will supply the Sadara ...
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Phillips 66 will reduce delivery of polypropylene grades because of issues with feedstock supply, further squeezing an already tight market, sources said Tuesday. The company announced the measure late Monday in a letter to customers ...
Saudi Butanol Co. has received Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Industry's approval for construction of the world's largest butanol plant in Jubail Industrial Complex, Saudi Arabia. Sabuco is a joint venture of three leading Saudi ...
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Borealis said Tuesday it would invest Eur65 million ($85.4 million) to upgrade the Borstar PE2 (polyethylene2) plant technology to the third generation, extending the Borstar PE platform at its production site in Porvoo, Finland. "This ...
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Russia's Rosneft is considering the possibility of buying crude on theinternational market to supply a planned refinery and petrochemicals complexin Russia's Far East, CEO Igor Sechin told reporters Friday. "We don't need to pump all the ...
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Taiwan's Kuokuang Petrochemical Technology Co is considering to set up an integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Pengerang in the state of Johor in Malaysia, rivaling state-owned Petronas' Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated ...
Polish chemical producer Synthos has begun an emergency shutdown of all units at its petrochemical complex in Kralupy, Czech Republic due to extreme flooding by the Vltava river, a company source said Monday. "We are closing production of ...
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South Korea's petrochemicals maker Korea Petrochemical Industry Company said Thursday its first-quarter net profit rose 32.7% year on year to Won 6.9 billion ($6.1 million), from Won 5.2 billion a year earlier. Operating profit also ...
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ExxonMobil’s Singapore Chemical Plant is now producing ethylene from the facility’s second world-scale steam cracker. The expansion is integrated with the existing petrochemical plant. Over the next few weeks, the ...
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