Wacker Chemie AG is strategically expanding its presence in the Middle and South American growth region. Consequently, the Munich-based chemical com- pany is extending its existing technical center in São Paulo, Bra- zil, and ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,27 commodities increased in prices, 33 fell and 40 remained unchanged on 03/12/2012.The largest rises were Nickel (2.95%),Hydrochloric acid (2.94%),Bromine (1.27%),while ...
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Saudi Arabia's Sahara Petrochemicals Company said late Thursday that its subsidiary Sahara and Maaden Petrochemicals Company, or Samapco, has secured a loan worth Saudi Riyals 1.98 billion ($528.2 million) from a consortium of Saudi banks. ...
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames Laboratory have discovered new ways of using a well-known polymer in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), which could eliminate the need for an increasingly problematic and ...
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Williams Energy will apply in early 2013 to Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board to build a natural gas liquids and olefins processing facilities in the province, even as it aims to add a new petrochemical value chain, the ...
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,18 commodities increased in prices, 26 fell and 56 remained unchanged on 20/11/2012.The largest rises were Nickel (1.57%),Silver (1.43%),Acetone (1.17%),while the largest ...
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The production of ethylene and propylene has been fully resumed at Stavrolen petrochemical complex (a LUKOIL subsidiary) in Budennovsk. Both these substances were then forwarded to units producing polyethylene and polypropylene. Thus, ...
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Technip was awarded by The Dow Chemical Company the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract and cracking furnaces engineering and procurement services for a previously announced new large world-scale ethylene production plant to be ...
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Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (Chevron Phillips Chemical) congratulates Saudi Polymers Company (SPCo) and its joint venture partner, National Petrochemical Company (Petrochem), as the joint venture’s manufacturing facility ...
The US Gulf Coast non-LST purity ethane assessment has fallen to its lowest level since August 2002, according to Platts data, a move attributed to increasing supplies form shale gas plays across the US. Ethane has fallen 68% on the ...
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Production run rates at Borealis' propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Belgium will remain halved until the end of the year, the company said Friday. The PDH plant, located in Kallo near Antwerp, produces around 480,000 mt/year of ...
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CB&I announced that it has been awarded contracts by Occidental Chemical Corporation for the technology license, basic engineering and front end engineering and design (FEED) services for a proposed new ethane cracker. The proposed cracker ...
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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 ...
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On the back of disinterest shown by entrepreneurs to invest in Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Regions (PCPIRs) set up across India; the Indian government will cast a fresh look at the inverted duty structure prevalent ...
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Williams Partners announced that it has completed the transaction to acquire Williams' approximately 83-percent undivided interest in the Geismar olefins production facility, as well as Williams' refinery-grade propylene splitter for $2.264 ...
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