Petrochemicals

The US President’s financial year 2017 budget includes US$878 million for fossil energy programmes.

Hengli Petrochemical Co. Ltd has selected Axens to supply technologies for its petrochemical project in China's Liaoning Province.

Fluor has been awarded a FEED contract for the world’s largest propylene oxide/tertiary butyl alcohol plant.

The IEA has released it’s monthly oil market report for February 2016.

More than 90% of businesses expect sales volumes to remain or exceed 2015 levels, according to the Chemical Industries Association (CIA).

Albemarle has announced their intention to increase the prices of its fluid catalytic cracking catalysts by 10%.

The growing number of cyber security concerns in the oil and gas and industrial sectors has fuelled 2015 growth for PAS.

Ametek has announced the acquisition of both Brookfield Engineering and ESP/SurgeX.

More students need to choose mathematics and physics or engineering could be at threat, according to a new report.

EY’s global oil and gas transactions review 2015 evaluates the oil and gas industry and how global deal volume fell short of expectation.

Primus Green Energy has announced the production of 100-octane gasoline at a commercial demonstration gas-to-liquids plant.

According to a new TechSci Research report, the industrial gases market in Saudi Arabia is estimated to cross US$1.6 billion by 2021.

Matrix Service Company has announced it has successfully acquired Baillie Tank Equipment to form Matrix Applied Technologies.

Biosynthetic™ Technologies has secured over US$100 million from the USDA in order to create a commercial scale renewable chemicals manufacturing plant.

Phillips 66 generated US$1.5 billion in cash from operations in 4Q15, with the Refining segment achieving 94% utilisation.