Petrochemicals

Westlake Chemical Corporation has provided an update regarding its proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Axiall Corporation.

Royal Vopak has announced that it has divested its 40% ownership in the joint venture Nippon Vopak Co. Ltd. to Macquarie Asia Infrastructure Fund.

SABIC has signed a project development agreement with China's Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group.

Clemessy has recently taken over Meci, a company specialising in the transactional metering of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons.

Celtic has announced the successful completion of its thermal conductive heating project in the UK.

According to the EIA, US retail gasoline prices are at their lowest since 2009, ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.

Linde has expanded its plant turnaround, MRO and pipeline services to include Gulf Coast.

EIA has released its summary data on energy production, consumption, stocks, trade, prices, and emissions for February 2016.

Technip has been awarded a basic engineering and proprietary equipment contract at the Saudi Kayan petrochemical complex.

Aggreko provides heat exchangers to prevent downtime and lost production to a leading ethylene oxide producer.

OPW Engineered Systems has released a new LYNX coupler that may help to revolutionise terminal loading.

Honeywell has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Vietnam Oil and Gas Group to advance their cooperation in Vietnam.

Stateside Urea and FRM Mission Solutions have announced their diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) blending plant has opened in Charleston.

GTC Technology’s dividing wall column (DWC) has been incorporated in TonenGeneral’s xylene recovery unit in Japan.

Sekisui Specialty Chemicals has announced the start up of its high purity methyl acetate unit after scheduled capacity expansion.