Petrochemicals

Yokogawa Corp. of America and KBC (a Yokogawa Company) have announced the dates of their upcoming Users Conference, YNOW2024.

Lummus Technology has announced an award from Saudi Ethylene and Polyethylene Co. (SEPC) for the design and supply of two Short Residence Time ethylene heaters.

Lummus Technology has announced a major investment to help scale production of Resynergi's modular Continuous Microwave Assisted Pyrolysis (CMAP) technology.

GlobalData reports that Asia is set to account for 89% of global phenol capacity additions by 2027.

Technip Energies to provide proprietary technology, engineering, and procurement services for Dow’s net-zero integrated ethylene cracker in Canada.

NEXTCHEM, through its biodegradable plastics technology licensor, CONSER, has been awarded technology licensing and catalyst supply by a prominent client, as part of a larger project located in Northwestern China.

PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (GC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific (MHI) to jointly study the technologies required to develop a large-scale petrochemical complex that aims to support Thailand's carbon neutrality by 2050.

Acelen Renewables has presented its pioneering project that will propel Brazil forward in the global energy transition.

H.E. Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister of Belgium, has witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on energy transition cooperation between three Belgian and three Houston-based partners.

BASF and Heidelberg University will continue to jointly operate the Catalysis Research Laboratory (CaRLa) for a further five years.

Lummus Technology has signed a strategic supply agreement with NET Power Inc. to design and supply recuperative heat exchangers (HXR).

thyssenkrupp Uhde has secured a basic engineering package (BEP) and FEED package for the establishment of a biopolymer plant on the Arabian Peninsula.

Neste and Eppendorf have forged a strategic partnership to develop a new line of renewable lab plastics.

INEOS Aromatics has announced its intention to mothball the smaller and older of two of its Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) units at its integrated PX and PTA production facility in Geel, Belgium.

BASF has signed a syndicated bank term loan facility with a maturity of 15 years for its new Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China.