LyondellBasell issued a force majeure declaration on vinyl acetate monomer and glacial acetic acid supplies from its La Porte, Texas, facility after a turnaround revealed equipment issues, the company said in a letter to customers seen by ...
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Methanex, the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol to major international markets, has announced that it has successfully produced first methanol from its new 1.0 million tonne plant in Geismar, Louisiana, in the US. ...
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a methanol plant in Ibom State last week. The methanol plant, to be constructed at a cost of US$ 1.5 billion, is being set up by Quantum ...
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South Louisiana Methanol LP (SLM) announced that it has received the required air permit from the LDEQ and the State of Louisiana to construct and operate the SLM methanol facility in St. James Parish, Louisiana. “This represents a ...
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LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) today announced that its methanol plant at Channelview, Texas, was placed into service in the fourth-quarter 2013 to take advantage of low-cost natural gas from shale formations. The unit had been out of service ...
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OCI N.V. announced that Natgasoline LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary, plans to build a new greenfield world scale methanol plant in Beaumont, Texas. The plant is expected to have a capacity of up to 5,000 metric tons per day (tpd), ...
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Dutch fertilizer company OCI N.V. announced Thursday it planned to build the largest methanol plant in the United States, which is believed to have a methanol shortage of about 5 million tonnes. The projected plant will be built in ...
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Israel's Dor Chemicals plans to double methanol imports within two years to meet an expected demand surge for blended gasoline, a senior company official said Wednesday. "Imports will reach 200,000 mt/year with the introduction of a 15% ...
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Methanex Corporation agreed to sell an approximate 10% equity share in Egyptian Methanex Methanol Company S.A.E. (EMethanex) to Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP) for $110 million. The transaction will increase APICORP's ...
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Canada's Methanex is "making solid progress" on its plans to increase its global methanol production capacity by up to 1 million mt/year by the end of this year, CEO John Floren said in a statement late Wednesday. In New Zealand, the ...
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Methanex Corporation announced an initial $5 million investment in Carbon Recycling International (CRI), a privately held company with headquarters in Reykjavik, Iceland. Methanex will also evaluate further investments to support CRI's ...
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US refiner Valero Energy will build one of the world's largest methanol plants at its St. Charles, Louisiana, refinery, the company said Thursday. The $600 million-$700 million project will add a 1.6 million tons/year methanol plant at ...
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Japan's Sojitz Corp. and the government of Papua New Guinea have signed a memorandum of understanding for a feasibility study on a gas chemical project in Papua New Guinea using locally sourced natural gas as feedstock, the company ...
The first methanol plant in the Caucasus region, owned by Azerbaijani Methanol Company (AzMeCo), is now operational, Chairman of the board of directors of AzMeCo, Nizami Piriyev, has said. Mr. Piriyev said the current capacity of the ...
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Methanex Corporation announced that it has reached a final investment decision to proceed with the relocation of a second one million tonne per year methanol plant from its Chile site to Geismar, Louisiana. The plant is expected to be ...
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