Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has signed a resolution related to financing of the proposed gas-chemical complex for manufacture of polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene in Balkan province. The complex would be built in ...
Tags: PP Plant, polypropylene
Turkish petrochemical producer Petkim Thursday increased the prices of polyolefins by $15-20/mt, sources said. Petkim was not immediately available to confirm. New list prices for low density polyethylene, high density PE injection ...
Tags: Polyolefins, petrochemical producer, Petkim
On March 26, 2014, with the 300 kt/a linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant, the last start-up project in PetroChina Sichuan Integrated Petrochemical and Refinery Complex (Sichuan Project) began to produce qualified polyethylene ...
PVC market prices across Asia are expected to rise as of June offers on reduced market supply from Taiwan, Japan and India, market sources at the Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference in Pattaya said Thursday. Market participants said ...
Tags: PVC Prices, VCM Shortages
Ethylene spot prices in Northwest Europe increased marginally week on week to Eur885/mt ($1,214/mt) FD NWE Friday on the back of a fall in steam cracker utilization rates, which helped managed the oversupply in ethylene, sources said. ...
Tags: Ethylene, Utilization Rates
Ethylene flow rates on the Evangeline Pipeline are likely to improve in the coming week, trade sources said Wednesday. Flows on the pipeline, which moves ethylene from Texas into Louisiana, restarted May 8, sources said, after it had been ...
Iran’s 1,500 km long West Ethylene Pipeline is expected to go operational by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2015), said Managing director of Iran's National Petrochemical Company (NPC) Abbas Sheri Moqqadm, ...
Tags: Pipeline, petrochemical plants
Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO, President and CEO Katsumoto Ishibashi) has been awarded a contract to build a large gas chemical complex for State Concern “Turkmengas”, in collaboration with Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd., ...
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan decided to not move forward with their proposed joint venture to construct a Linear Alpha Olefins unit on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Accordingly, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
US ethylene contracts for March and April were nearing settlements that would combine for a 2.75-3 cents/lb ($61-$66/mt) decrease, sources said Friday. Sources with two buyers said the net transaction price for March was beginning to ...
Tags: ethylene, spot ethylene
European polypropylene and polyethylene producers are targeting a May contract price increase because of low stock availability and seasonal demand, sources said. PE producers were aiming for increases of Eur20-60/mt ($28-83/mt) and PP ...
Tags: Polyolefin, PE, ethylene CP
Enterprise Products Partners offered more details on its Texas Gulf Coast ethane export terminal during a first-quarter earnings call Thursday. Enterprise, which has hinted at an ethane terminal project for over six months, announced ...
Tags: Chemicals
During the week of April 20, ethylene production facilities at The Dow Chemical Company Plaquemine, La. site experienced two separate process incidents. These separate incidents collectively resulted in the disruption of ethylene production ...
Tags: Ethylene Production, Dow Chemical
US spot ethylene settled at a 12-week high Thursday to be assessed at 56.5-57 cents/lb FD USG, up 3 cents/lb week on week, as a delay in the startup of a major transmission line between Texas and Louisiana, tightening supply amid a busy ...
Adequate levels of rhizobia organisms can help to increase nitrogen fixation; satellite imagery and mapping capabilities help growers identify yield-limiting factors; and developments in drought stress tolerance. Adequate Rhizobia ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food