Petrochemicals

Motiva has reached an agreement to acquire a 100% ownership interest in Flint Hills Resources Port Arthur LLC.

PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical will use Grace technology for a 500 000 tpy polypropylene facility.

Chevron Lummus Global will provide hydrotreating technology for Compañía Española de Petróleos’ refinery in Spain.

Clariant has announced that Hengli’s new dehydrogenation plant in China has been successfully started up.

Honeywell UOP’s catalytic dehydrogenation technology is being used in a 450 000 tpy petrochemicals unit in China belonging to Zhejiang Satellite.

BASF and the University of Heidelberg have signed a contract to extend their Catalysis Research Laboratory cooperation by three years.

Dow is divesting its Acetone Derivatives business to ALTIVIA Ketones & Additives.

PetroLogistics awards McDermott with FEED contract for 500 000 tpy Gulf Coast PDH project.

Clariant Catalysts and Wuxi Xiyuan win further contracts for formaldehyde production projects in China.

STEP selects LyondellBasell’s technology for its polypropylene unit to be constructed in Arzew, Oran province, Algeria.

The new branch of Clariant’s Catalysts business unit is located in Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The opening marks Clariant’s fourth location in the Middle East.

Ashurst recently advised Petrochemical Industries Co. K.S.C. (PIC) on its joint venture with SKC Co.

Re-Gen Robotics has committed £1 million to new tank cleaning robot and an ADR certified jet/vac tanker.

AFPM celebrates the role that the petrochemicals sector played in the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Banner Chemicals UK has been recognised with both the Queen’s award for international trade and the ‘Northern Powerhouse Export Champions Award’.