Petrochemicals - 13 June 2019

ExxonMobil and SABIC will proceed with their proposed Gulf Coast petrochemicals facility, including a 1.8 million t ethane steam cracker.

McDermott has been awarded a technology contract in China for a large paraxylene plant.

Clariant has released CATOFIN 311, a propane dehydrogenation catalyst which the company says has greater selectivity and a longer lifetime.

A video offers a look at the scale of ExxonMobil’s project to expand its Group II base stocks capacity.