Masdar, Mitsubishi Chemical Group and INPEX are collaborating to explore setting up the world’s first commercial-scale e-polypropylene production in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
ADNOC has entered into negotiations with OMV about the potential creation of a new combined petrochemicals holding entity.
For the first time in the MENA region, TotalEnergies, Aramco and SABIC have converted oil derived from plastic waste into circular polymers.
Sulzer has announced the opening of its purpose-built Lausitz Service Center, which offers technically advanced repair and upgrade capabilities for all types of rotating equipment.
Technip Energies and LanzaTech Global, Inc. have signed a joint collaboration agreement to create a new pathway to sustainable ethylene.
INEOS is to acquire Naphtachimie, Gexaro and Appryl, currently 50:50 joint ventures between INEOS and TotalEnergies at Lavera in southern France.
Technip Energies has been selected by Aramco for the project management consultancy (PMC) contract to develop the master plan for Ras Al Khair, a new industrial city in Saudi Arabia.
Syclus has selected Axens’ Atol technology for Europe’s first ethanol-based renewable ethylene production plant.
Kent has been appointed as the FEED contractor for the potential expansion of ExxonMobil’s advanced recycling facilities.
Lummus Technology and MOL Group have announced their agreement to cooperate in the deployment and integration of chemical recycling of plastics at MOL's assets in Hungary and Slovakia.
Linde has signed a series of contracts with Wanhua Chemical Group, expanding the companies’ cooperation across multiple key sites in China.
Aramco and TotalEnergies have awarded EPC contracts for the US$11 billion Amiral complex – a future world-scale petrochemicals facility expansion at the SATORP refinery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
ABB is supporting the BASF Zhanjiang Verbund site in China with its automation and digital technologies.
LyondellBasell and AFA Nord have agreed to create a 50:50 joint venture (JV) that intends to recycle post-commercial flexible secondary packaging waste.
BASF has broken ground on a polyethylene plant, with a capacity of 500 000 tpy, at its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China.