ShawCor Ltd. has completed the acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Desert NDT LLC , first announced on May 8, 2014, for a total consideration of approximately $260 million, subject to adjustment for changes in working capital. ...
Tags: ShawCor, acquisition, Construction
The exports of petrochemical products from Iran increased by six percent during the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year that started on March 21, 2014, reports Press TV. The data shows that petrochemical exports increased ...
Tags: Textile Exports, Textile
Iran-based Fanavaran Petrochemical Company has surpassed its own earlier record of monthly methanol production, FARS News Agency reported. During the last month of the Iranian calendar year that ended on July 22, the company produced ...
Tesoro Corporation announced plans to produce petrochemical feedstock in its U.S. West Coast refining system. The Company intends to gather intermediate feedstock, primarily reformate, from its West Coast refining system for xylene ...
Praxair, Inc., through a subsidiary, has signed a long-term contract to supply industrial gases to Nanjing Jinling Huntsman New Materials Co., Ltd., a joint venture between SINOPEC Jinling and Huntsman. Jinling Huntsman will use the gases ...
The exports of petrochemical products from Iran earned US$ 838 million in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year that began on March 21, 2014, according to an IRNA report. During the four-month period, Iran ...
Tags: Exports, US$838 Million, Textile
The Kavian petrochemical plant in Iran can quadruple its output and increase it to two million tons per annum after it receives sufficient feedstock from South Pars gas field, FARS News Agency reported quoting the Ministry of Petroleum. ...
With all its 19 units successfully passed the trial run, Sinochem Quanzhou 12 million MT/a refining project (hereinafter referred to as Sinochem Quanzhou refining project), invested solely by Sinochem Group, was officially rolled out on ...
LPG prices were mixed in East China this week, rising in Jiangsu province and falling in both Shanghai and Zhejiang province, trade sources in the regions said Friday. Propane-rich imported LPG was heard traded at Yuan 5,900-6,000/mt ...
Tags: LPG Prices, Refinery, LPG
The Government of Iran has issued instructions to oil refineries and petrochemical units to not to reduce their feedstock supply to downstream petrochemical units, reports Shana. The order issued by Iran’s Minister of Petroleum ...
An investment of US$ 33 billion is needed for financing the petrochemical projects that are currently under construction, a senior official of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) has said, reports Tasnim News Agency. Mohammad-Hassan ...
Tags: Financing, Petrochemical Projects, Textile
Early in 2013, a research group led by Biome Bioplastics was awarded a grant by the UK's innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to investigate pulp and paper by-product, lignin, as a new source of organic chemicals for ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Bioplastic bag
Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order to supply compact heat exchangers for the caustic evaporation plant of AkzoNobel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The ...
Vietnam's state-owned Petrolimex, which accounts for more than half of domestic oil product sales, cut its diesel and kerosene retail prices marginally but kept gasoline and fuel oil rates unchanged, effective late Thursday, according to a ...
The Linde Group and BASF SE intended to cooperate in developing and licensing processes for the on-purpose production of linear butenes and butadiene. BASF has developed process technology and catalysts as well as the extraction ...