CB&I and Clariant announced its new Ziegler-Natta (ZN) polypropylene catalyst production plant in Louisville, Kentucky, is on schedule to begin production in 2015. The plant is part of a long-term strategic partnership between ...
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The Sohar-based aromatic plant of Oman Refineries and Petrochemical Industries Company (Orpic) has attained record levels in benzene and paraxylene production, which has grown by 51 percent as compared to last three year’s average ...
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ExxonMobil’s Singapore Chemical Plant is now producing ethylene from the facility’s second world-scale steam cracker. The expansion is integrated with the existing petrochemical plant. Over the next few weeks, the ...
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Saudi PetroRabigh's polyethylene and polypropylene plants are still only partially running even though they were started up last month following maintenance work, sources close to operations said. The plants were closed so that necessary ...
LyondellBasell announced Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) has selected the Spheripol process technology from LyondellBasell for two 300 KTA polypropylene (PP) plants to be located in Pengerang, Malaysia. “PETRONAS’ ...
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Williams Energy will apply in early 2013 to Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board to build a natural gas liquids and olefins processing facilities in the province, even as it aims to add a new petrochemical value chain, the ...