Petrochemicals

Merchant Research & Consulting claims the US is 'dominating' global bromine production.

American Innovations has expanded its line of external corrosion services through its acquisition of MSES' line of corrosion products.

MOL’s Board of Directors formally approved the company’s new long term strategy, ‘MOL Group 2030 – Enter Tomorrow’, at its meeting held on 13 October 2016.

Refining and petrochemicals managers from Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe will attend the CIS & CEE Downstream Project Management Conference in Vienna on 2 - 3 November.

GAIL (India) Limited has successfully started its first UNIPOL polyethylene (PE) process line, with the capacity to produce 400 000 tpy of PE.

OPIS has completed its benchmark audit for NGLs, refined and renewable products pricing assessments.

Axens has filed a voluntary takeover bid proposal with the AMF (French capital markets authority) to acquire the shares of Heurtey Petrochem.

BASF has published preliminary figures for the third quarter of 2016, reporting sales of €14.0 billion and income from operations (EBIT) before special items of €1.5 billion.

FTS specialises in large scale maintenance and turnaround services for the Canadian resource and energy industry, including oil sands, refining, chemical, midstream and other heavy industry facilities.

Praxair announces the start up of its new plant and extended pipeline system in the Port of Antwerp.

The waste to chemicals plant project will produce methanol from synthesis gas generated from residual waste.

Neste Jacobs and Borealis have signed an agreement for Neste Jacobs to perform the energy screening for all production units at Borealis site in Porvoo, Finland.

Total has announced the sale of its specialty chemicals’ affiliate Atotech to The Carlyle Group for a sum of US$3.2 billion.

Zero-leakage severe service isolation valve provider ValvTechnologies has announced new appointments to its team.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its Monthly Energy Review for September 2016.