Petrochemicals

INEOS Oligomers has made a financial investment decision to build a new world scale PAO plant in Texas, US.

Italmatch Chemicals has announced the acquisition of US company Detrex Corp.

A survey sponsored by Honeywell suggests that there is a low adoption of industrial cyber security measures.

CB&I has received a full notice to proceed from Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries regarding a petrochemical plant project in Kazakhstan.

Compact Membrane Systems (CMS) has announced a pilot of its new olefins separation technology with DowDuPont.

The financial facilities will be used to finance the PT2SB industrial terminal in Pengerang, Malaysia.

PinnacleART and AspenTech have partnered to deliver asset maintenance and reliability solutions to the oil and gas and chemicals industries.

Trafigura has signed a sale and purchase agreement for the majority of Pampa Energia’s downstream assets in Argentina.

ExxonMobil and Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica have discovered a material that could reduce the amount of energy and emissions associated with ethylene production.

Hanwha Total Petrochemical is investing to expand its integrated refining and petrochemicals platform.

BP plans to build a new lubricants blending plant in China to meet fast-growing demand.

US natural gas and oil companies have launched an environmental partnership to accelerate the industry’s reductions in methane and VOCs.

thyssenkrupp has agreed to build two major polymer plants for SASA in Turkey.

Shell and Gexcon have joined forces to bring Shell’s hazard and risk software models to market.

Belgium Total has completed the upgrade of its largest refining and petrochemicals platform in Europe.