The Singapore cracking margin against Dubai crude rose to $7.46/b Monday, its widest in 32 months, supported by firmer light distillate cracks and weaker crude, Platts data showed. It has widened from $5/b on November 1, with much of the ...
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In the next five years, China's main focus in the petrochemical sector would be on meeting domestic demand and producing higher-value end products, Gu Zongqin, president of the China National Petroleum and Chemical Planning Institute, said ...
Prices of both imported and domestically-produced LPG fell another 9-12% in China this week after sliding 10-13% last week amid lower Asian LPG values and weaker demand from the petrochemical sector, trade sources said Friday, December 12. ...
In the wake of deadly gas pipeline explosions that rocked Kaohsiung in the last week of July, the Taiwanese Government is mulling a proposal to set up a special zone for petrochemical companies in Greater Kaohsiung. Premier Jiang Yi-huah ...
An investment of US$ 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
Iran's National Petrochemical Company (NPC) is currently giving final touches to the charter for creation of a fund for petrochemical projects, Abbas Sheri-Moqaddam, managing director of NPC, has said, according to the country's Oil ...
Tags: Petrochemical, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In the past 25 years, India has achieved a remarkable and considerable pace in the chemical production and most of the growth has been driven by India from all Asian countries in chemical industry. With the structured operations and well ...
Japanese companies are willing to invest in Iran’s petrochemical sector, Japanese Ambassador to Tehran Koji Haneda has said, FARS News Agency reported. During a tour of Ilam petrochemical complex in Western Iran, Mr. Haneda said ...
Tags: petrochemical, Chemicals, petroleum
The petrochemical industry of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has taken positive steps towards achieving environmental sustainability over the last two years, said Abdulwahab Al Sadoun, secretary general, of the Gulf ...
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Qatar Petroleum(QP)and Qatar Petrochemical Company(QAPCO)have revealed the logo of the Al Sejeel Petrochemical Complex,bearing the colors of the Qatari flag,and also announced the award of the project's Front-End Engineering and ...
Qatar Petroleum (QP) and two Japanese companies, namely Zeon Corporation and Mitsui & Co. Ltd., today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of an integrated butadiene extraction and elastomer complex in Ras Laffan ...
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Fuji Oil may consider entering into alliances with other companies in the Japanese refining and petrochemical sector, where it can benefit, a senior company official with the Japanese refiner said. "We are not able to speak about anything ...
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China is expected to overtake the United States to become the world's largest oil importer in the 2020s as emerging economies, instead of developed ones, will claim most of the world's energy supplies, a report says. China will be the ...
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Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Dmitry Konov, Chief Executive Officer of SIBUR signed today at the Gazprom headquarters a Memorandum of Cooperation while constructing a gas processing plant and a gas chemical ...
Global demand for naphtha will expand faster than any other light products through 2020, spurred by rising needs of the petrochemical industry in Asia, as per the latest report by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). ...
Tags: naphtha, light products