JGC Corporation announced that its wholly-owned Saudi Arabian subsidiary, JGC Gulf International Co. Ltd. has been awarded a contract for expansion of ethylene manufacturing facilities for the Rabigh phase II project. The contract was ...
Tags: ethylene, ethylene manufacturing facilities, petrochemicals
Saudi Aramco is "diligently" exploring shale gas reserves in Saudi Arabia, however uncertainty reigns over whether such reserves could be tapped by petrochemical companies, top officials from the country's petrochemicals industry said ...
Westlake Chemical Corporation announced that it will perform planned maintenance and an expansion of the Petro 2 ethylene unit at its complex in Lake Charles, LA in the first quarter of 2013. This expansion will increase ethane-based ...
Tags: ethylene unit, ethylene, styrene, propylene, caustic
The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has announced a net profit of SR 6.31 billion for Q3 2012, as against SR 8.19 billion in the same period last year, a decrease of 23 percent, and an increase of 19 percent as against SR 5.30 ...
Tags: Basic Industries, profit, SABIC profit
US-based consumer goods company Procter & Gamble (P&G) has announced the availability of Oral-B manual toothbrush made with Octal Petrochemicals' recyclable DPET (direct PET) sheet, as part of its move to help eliminate all uses of ...
Tags: Procter&Gamble, Oral-B manual toothbrush, polyvinyl chloride
BP announced that it has agreed to sell all its interests in purified terephthalic acid (PTA) production in Malaysia to Reliance Global Holdings Pte. Ltd. (Reliance). The agreement concerns BP’s 100 per cent equity in BP Chemicals ...
Tags: terephthalic acid, BP Chemicals, paraxylene technologies
Takamul Investment Company, the downstream investment subsidiary of Oman Oil Company, is actively weighing the feasibility of establishing a ferrochrome smelter project in the Sultanate. An official of Takamul said that "Weaare still in ...
UK-based BP and JBF Petrochemicals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JBF Industries have signed an agreement for licensing BP’s purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology to be used in the 1.25mt per annum plant in Mangalore, India. ...
Tags: BP, JBF Petrochemicals, purified terephthalic acid technology
The Peninsula reported that the Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Petrochemical Company joint venture project in Ras Laffan Industry City is scheduled for completion in 2018. With the launch of the USD 7 billion project, Qatar would emerge as one ...
Tags: petrochemical products, Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Petrochemical
According to new research by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association, the Gulf petrochemicals sector added 34,564 jobs between 2010 and 2011 an increase of 11%. According to a new GPCA publication, GCC Petrochemicals & ...
Thailand's PTT Plc is considering building a huge petrochemical and refining complex in Vietnam, according to a statement released Thursday by the provincial government of the Vietnamese central province of Binh Dinh. Sukrit ...
Taipei, Nov. 15, 2012 (CENS)--The Kaohsiung branch of Taiwan International Ports Corp. will invest NT$13 billion in building the second-phase docks of intercontinental container terminal, whose construction is scheduled to break ground ...
Tags: Kaohsiung Harbor, new dock, investment, Taiwan International Ports Corp.
German chemical company BASF has announced the launch of its new surface sizing agent (PSA) Basoplast 450 P for the packaging segment, which enables papermakers to improve on sizing costs considerably. Suitable for linerboard grades, ...
Tags: chemical, new surface sizing agent, PSA, packaging
It seems almost too absurd to be true, but in the land of leviathan government, where the layers of bureaucracy are so intertwined it is impossible to navigate them, comes the revelation that the U.S. government has now taken to fining ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil
Shell announced that it has taken a final investment decision to 'debottleneck' its Singapore ethylene cracker on Pulau Bukom (Bukom Island). This is expected to increase the capacity of olefins and aromatics by more than 20 per cent. ...
Tags: Shell, ethylene, ethylene cracker, olefins, aromatics