Chevron Phillips Chemical has started operations of a new ethane cracker at its Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, Texas, US. The unit will manufacture 1.5 million metric tons/3.3 billion lbs. a year at peak production. Last September, ...
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Shell Chemical is exploring a project to expand its olefins plant in Deer Park, Texas, and increase its ethylene production, the company said Wednesday. "Shell is evaluating a proposed expansion of ethylene production at the existing ...
South Africa headquartered Sasol Limited has taken the final decision to set up an US$ 8.1 billion ethane cracker and derivatives complex at its existing site in Lake Charles, Louisiana. "At the heart of the project is an ethane cracker ...
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Saudi Arabia's Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company or Petro Rabigh's second phase expansion project has turned it into one of the strongest "volume growth stories" in the country's chemical industry, UK-based bank HSBC said in a ...
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Traders are considering sending European ethylene cargoes to Asia for late May delivery amid weak European prices, sources said Thursday. Market participants said they have been approached by several traders with selling indications ...
Ethylene producers in Northwest Europe have fixed two cargoes to Asia for March loading driven by length in domestic market, the turnaround season in Asia and port congestion in the Middle East, sources said this week. Europe, a net ...
Axiall Corporation and Lotte Chemical of the Republic of Korea announced that they have signed a Heads of Agreement to pursue a 50/50 joint venture arrangement for the design, construction and operation of a proposed 1 million metric ...
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Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C. signed a six-year commercial and contractual agreement with Sasol North America, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sasol Limited, to supply up to 200 megawatts of electric power to Sasol's proposed ...
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Dec. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CB&I (NYSE: CBI) announced today it has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $1 billion by Ingleside Ethylene LLC, a joint venture between Occidental Chemical Corporation ...
Sasol announced today that it has selected Technip as the primary contractor for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase of its proposed gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility in Louisiana. "The selection of Technip as FEED contractor is ...
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Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has been selected as the Main Automation Contractor for Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP's (Chevron Phillips Chemical) USGC Petrochemicals Project. The project was first announced in ...
Calling it a "game changer" for West Virginia, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced that Odebrecht will build an ethane cracker and three polyurethane plants in the Mid-Ohio Valley region. Odebrecht is an established international petrochemical ...
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Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced today that it has been selected as the Main Automation Contractor for Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP's (Chevron Phillips Chemical) USGC Petrochemicals Project. The project was first announced in ...
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Shell's recent announcement that it is seeking additional feedstock supplies for its proposed western Pennsylvania petrochemical facility is only one major roadblock that the facility needs to circumvent in the next few years, a Platts ...
Shell Chemical has begun taking bids to secure ethane from Marcellus Shale operators for its proposed world-class petrochemical plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, the company said Tuesday. Shell is accepting bids for feedstock from ...
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