Petrochemicals

OPEC officials, including its Secretary General, have met with Gabon’s President and Minister of Petroleum and Hydrocarbons.

Honeywell UOP provides an overview of the solutions that can help meet carbon disulfide specifications for petrochemical grade naphtha products.

Honeywell has completed its acquisition of Nextnine Ltd, a provider of industrial cyber security solutions.

Tina Edvardsson, Linde Engineering North America, USA, outlines the challenges that must be overcome to unlock the potential value in shale rock.

Sadara Chemical Co. has started up the first polyols plant in Saudi Arabia.

Prairie Catalytic LLC has awarded Strobel Energy Group an EPC contract to design and construct its commercial scale bio-ethanol to ethyl acetate facility.

The API has praised joint calls from the House, Senate and administration for pro-growth tax reform.

Grace has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology to Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC).

Johnson Controls has announced Williams Fire & Hazard Control (WF&HC) will host the third annual EMEA XTREME Industrial Fire & Hazard Training School later in 2017.

The API reports that total petroleum deliveries climbed 2.6% from June 2016.

Clariant is part of an ongoing competition law investigation by the European Commission into the ethylene purchasing market.

Linde has announced it is advancing its partnership with Wanhua Chemical Group with an additional investment of €108 million in China.

Honeywell will provide detergent manufacturing technologies to the Farabi Petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia.

LyondellBasell has reached final investment decision (FID) to build the world's largest propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) plant.

Wison Engineering has announced it has won an EPFC contract from Formosa Plastics in Texas, US.