Petrochemicals

Bayport Polymers LLC recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new ethane cracker at the Total Port Arthur Refinery.

Toyo Engineering Group has been awarded a construction project in Indonesia by PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk.

The contract covers the design, engineering, material specifications and procurement for two 7-kilometre special material pipelines that will transport ethylene oxide (EO) and propylene oxide (PO) from Sadara plants to PlasChem Park, a collaborative effort between Sadara and the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu (RCJY).

Enterprise Products and Navigator Holdings have announced their 50/50 JV ethylene export terminal at Enterprise’s Morgan’s Point facility in Texas will be able to export 2.2 billion pounds of ethylene a year.

The expansion is intended to support the company's Engineered Polymers business and product lines including Estane® TPU and others, and reflect Lubrizol’s anticipating demand for speciality polymers and compounds to grow at double digit rates.

A planned six-week turnaround of the company’s refinery in Kralupy nad Vltavou, the Czech Republic, has been successfully completed.

Suez has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Rosneft.

Shandong Tianhong Chemical has selected Honeywell UOP’s technology to produce on-purpose propylene.

Fujian Zhongjing Petrochemical has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a project in China.

INVISTA Performance Technologies has successfully deployed its latest PTA technology on Jiaxing Petrochemical’s second PTA line.

ExxonMobil has announced greenhouse gas reduction measures that are expected to lead to significant improvements in emissions performance by 2020.

After a thorough qualification programme, Axens has qualified Avantium to perform independent testing of commercial naphtha reforming catalysts.

Total, Borealis and NOVA Chemicals have closed a joint venture for petrochemicals on the US Gulf Coast.

LyondellBasell has announced that its Bayport Complex has received the Distinguished Safety Award (DSA) from the AFPM.

The two companies will explore ways to upgrade and commercialise the non-prime product generated at Borouge, the joint venture between ADNOC and Austria-based Borealis. This process, known as compounding, would take place at the proposed facility, situated in the Ruwais Industrial Complex.