China Petrochemical Corp, Asia's top refiner, is expanding in Africa through investment and social involvement, Du Juan reports As Africa becomes increasingly important in the global energy structure, with growing proven reserves of oil ...
Tags: Sinopec, China Petrochemical
ChemChina Petrochemical's Jinan branch held an ERP evaluation meeting on Nov 15 with the company's CIO, other leaders, ERP personnel, key users, IBM consultants and KPMG supervisors. At the meeting, IBM consultants reviewed ERP operations ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Qatar Petroleum (QP) and two Japanese companies, namely Zeon Corporation and Mitsui & Co. Ltd., today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of an integrated butadiene extraction and elastomer complex in Ras Laffan ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Sapphire Energy, Inc., one of the world leaders in algae-based Green Crude oil production, and Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), an integrated energy manufacturing and logistics company, announced a strategic joint development agreement aimed at ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Crude Oil, Oil
PetroChina cut its ex-works offer for isomer-grade mixed xylenes in South China by Yuan 100/mt, or 1.1%, to Yuan 8,900/mt effective Wednesday, market sources said Thursday. The revised price is equivalent to $1,203/mt on an import parity ...
Tags: PetroChina, mixed xylenes
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) along with the State Committee on Standardization, Metrology and Patents of Azerbaijan, will be developing new national standards for the upcoming oil-gas refining and petrochemical production ...
Tags: Petrochem Complex, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Wuyang Steel, a subsidiary of Hebei Iron and Steel Group has continued to cooperate with Sinopec who is a state-owned Chinese super-large petroleum and petrochemical enterprise group to extend business in steel as a first approved steel ...
Tags: Construction, steel
Fuji Oil may consider entering into alliances with other companies in the Japanese refining and petrochemical sector, where it can benefit, a senior company official with the Japanese refiner said. "We are not able to speak about anything ...
Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China is expected to overtake the United States to become the world's largest oil importer in the 2020s as emerging economies, instead of developed ones, will claim most of the world's energy supplies, a report says. China will be the ...
Tags: Oil Importer, Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
US-based firm General Electric Co. (GE) and Egyptian private company Carbon Holdings have signed a US$ 500 million agreement to provide technology and equity support for the building of a Greenfield naphtha cracker and olefins complex in ...
Tags: Naphtha Cracker, GE
Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Thenayan Al-Saud, Chairman of SABIC and Chairman of the Royal Commission for Jubail & Yanbu, officially opened the company's state-of-the-art SABIC Technology Center (STC) in Bengaluru, India in a ceremony which ...
Tags: SABIC, SABIC Technology Center
While Chinese polyester players are emerging as "too big to fail", their closest rivals from India have hit the slowdown wall as they struggle with poor economies of scale in the event of weak demand from major markets like Europe. The ...
BASF has produced its first commercial volumes of 1,4-butanediol (BDO) from renewable raw material, and is offering this product to customers for testing and commercial use. The production process relies on a patented fermentation ...
Tags: Raw Material, BASF
Cambodia had imported 1.31 million tonnes of petroleum in the first 10 months of 2013, a 2 percent decline compared with the 1.34 million tonnes over the same period last year, according to the data of the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil
China's 23 state-owned refineries plan to operate at an average 75% of capacity in November, processing a total 16.42 million mt, or 4.01 million b/d, of crude, according to a Platts monthly survey. The survey this month covered 13 ...
Tags: refineries, Mineral