To be able to withstand the challenge from low priced petrochemicals from the US in future, Asia’s biggest retailer, Sinopec Corp, earlier called China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, is gearing up to reduce its petrochemical production ...
Iran, which now holds a 2.4 percent share in the global petrochemical market, intends to increase the same to about 4.9 percent over the next two years, Deputy Head of National Iranian Petrochemical Industries Company, Ramezan Oladi, has ...
Tags: Petrochemical Market, Petrochemical, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The petrochemical production capacity of Iran is likely to reach 100 million tons by 2015, Mr. Abdolhossein Bayat, an Iranian Deputy Oil Minister, has said. Mr. Bayat, who is also the managing director of National Petrochemical Company ...
Unipetrol recorded 10% increase of revenues at CZK 107bn in 2012. EBIT excluding one-off impairment reached positive result of CZK 372m in 2012. The volume of crude oil processed 3927 kt in 2012 similar to volume of 2011. EBIT negatively ...
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Petkim,the Turkish petrochemical producer,is pursuing a project,which would boost the purified terephthalic acid(PTA)capacity of its Aliaga plant by 50 percent,a company statement said. The project would raise the capacity of the ...
MNA reported that the National Development Fund of Iran has allocated USD 3 billion for financing petrochemical projects. IRNA report said that the sum will be channeled into 11 petrochemical projects, mainly in the west and the south of ...
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Tehran Times reported that Iran inaugurated a large petrochemical complex, with a projected annual output of 300,000 tonnes of high density polyethylene, in the western province of Kermanshah on Tuesday. The report said that the ...
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ExxonMobil has commenced startup operations at one of the world’s largest ethylene steam crackers, the centerpiece of the company’s multi-billion dollar expansion project at its Singapore petrochemical complex. The expansion, ...
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Tehran Times reported that ethylene was injected into the West Ethylene Pipeline in Assaluyeh Port in Bushehr Province on December 17th Monday. Mr Mohammad Reza Rahimi an engineering manager of the pipeline said that the injection had ...
Tags: ethylene, West Ethylene Pipeline, Economic Energy, energy
As part of its economic diversification plan, Qatar is likely to invest about US$ 25 billion in the country's petrochemical sector by 2020, according to a recent report released by Qatar National Bank (QNB). In its report titled ...
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The first barrel of ethane from the Bakken field will go to Nova Chemicals' Joffre, Alberta facility to be value added and converted into polyethylene next year, which explains why CEO Randy Woelfel described himself at an industry event in ...
Tags: Shale gas, Petchems, petrochemicals
Hengli Petrochemical Industrial Park, which mainly engages in the production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA), used extensively in the production of textiles, has begun operations at its plant in Dalian located in Northeast China’s ...
This post offers an overview of a patented new process being used by Renmatix to achieve physical transformation of sustainably produced plant cellulose to bio-available sugars (the kind of affordable sugars industrial bugs will thrive on). ...
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