Petrochemicals

C4 Oleflex™ process technology from Honeywell UOP will help the growing fuel and petrochemical demand in China.

Siluria Technologies' strategically expands its investor base with its recent financing from Alujain Co. & NatPet.

Honeywell Process Solutions has implemented a distributed control system at the largest oil refining and petrochemical complex in the Irkutsk region of Eastern Siberia.

BP has announced it will market for sale its Decatur, Alabama, petrochemicals complex as part of a broader reorganisation of the company’s global petrochemicals business.

Petrofac has announced it has been awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco to undertake the engineering, procurement and construction of a sulphur recovery plant as part of their Fadhili gas programme.

Yokogawa Corporation of America has received an order from Orascom E&C USA to deliver control and safety systems for the Natgasoline LLC methanol plant.

MHPS has received an order for H-25 gas turbine and generator from Korea Petrochemical Ind. Co.

ASTM International has been awarded Accredited Provider status by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

ICIS has released the 2015 World Energy and Refining Annual Study.

Senator Debbie Stabenow has introduced new legislation that advances tax incentives for producers of renewable chemicals.

Demand for water treatment chemicals in the US is forecast to rise 3.2%/y to US$7.3 billion in 2019, according to a new Freedonia report.

INEOS, ExxonMobil and Shell have announced a long-term sale and purchase agreement to secure ethane from US shale gas for the Fife Ethylene Plant at Mossmorran in Scotland.

The region’s largest dedicated event for terminal operators, oil companies, traders and regulators, will return to Hamburg Messe on 25 - 26 November 2015.

Albemarle Corp. has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Tribotecc metal sulfides business to Treibacher Industrie AG.

LyondellBasell has announced that Thomas Aebischer has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective 1 January 2016.