China's apparent oil demand in 2015 grew 5.8% year on year to 11.11 million b/d, the fastest pace since 2011, despite the country's economy growing at the slowest rate since 1990, Platts calculations based on recently released official data ...
Tags: oil demand, fuel oil
Some independent teapot refiners in China's eastern Shandong province will be ramping up crude oil imports over the next month in a bid to utilize their import quotas before the end of the year, trade sources said this week. This is ...
Tags: Teapot Refiners, crude oil
China's appetite for imported naphtha has grown since the start of the year on the back of strong demand from petrochemical producers, market sources and traders said this week Imports of the petrochemical feedstock over January-April ...
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Based on its recent analysis of the process tunable diode laser (TDL) analyzers market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Mettler-Toledo AG with the 2014 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Competitive Strategy Innovation & Leadership. ...
Tags: TDL, GPro 500, Construction
Kuwait-based Equate Petrochemical Company said it has successfully completed turnaround of its plants and also the first phase of the polyethylene plant debottlenecking project. As part of the exercise, all units were shutdown from ...
Tags: ethylene, polyethylene, ethylene glycol, Textile
The prices of both imported and domestically produced LPG rebounded in East and South China this week, after falling 21-34% over the previous five weeks, supported by increasing demand and improving sentiment, trade sources said Friday, ...
Prices of both imported and domestically-produced LPG fell another 9-12% in China this week after sliding 10-13% last week amid lower Asian LPG values and weaker demand from the petrochemical sector, trade sources said Friday, December 12. ...
Carbon Holdings, a company based in Egypt, engaged in developing petrochemical plants and projects, is planning to set up a petrochemical project named Tahir, at a cost of US$ 7 billion, in Ain Sokhna town in Egypt, ahram online reported. ...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a methanol plant in Ibom State last week. The methanol plant, to be constructed at a cost of US$ 1.5 billion, is being set up by Quantum ...
Tags: The Methanol Plant, Quantum Petrochemical Company, Textile
In the wake of deadly gas pipeline explosions that rocked Kaohsiung in the last week of July, the Taiwanese Government is mulling a proposal to set up a special zone for petrochemical companies in Greater Kaohsiung. Premier Jiang Yi-huah ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Abu Dhabi Terminals (ADT) is set to build a new packaging facility for plastics solutions provider Borouge as part of a contract. The contract was signed by Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge) CEO Abdulaziz Alhajri and ADT CEO Martijn ...
Tags: Packaging Facility, ADT