Petrochemicals

Neste enabled its customers to reduce global GHG emissions by 11.1 million t in total, by offering renewable and circular solutions to replace fossil products.

LyondellBasell and KIRKBI have signed an agreement to make an investment in APK, which specialises in a solvent-based recycling technology for low density polyethylene.

WSG has extended its reach into the European gas and petrochemicals sector with the acquisition of Nitrovia for an undisclosed sum.

Shell Catalysts & Technologies' global price increase of its refining and chemical catalyst products lines comes as a result of unprecedented global economic challenges.

Repsol is progressing toward its goal of promoting the use of circular materials by starting up a new production line for recycled plastics at its Puertollano Industrial Complex in Spain.

PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Co. will once again license LyondellBasell's polyethylene technology at its facility in Jilin City, China.

Maire Tecnimont's subsidiary, NextChem S.p.A., has signed an agreement with Biorenova S.p.A. to acquire, scale up and industrialise CatC technology – a continuous chemical recycling process.

LOTTE INEOS Chemical has announced plans to build a third vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) production plant in South Korea.

Veritas Capital, an investor at the intersection of technology and government, has announced that an affiliate of Veritas has completed the purchase of Wood Mackenzie from Verisk.

William I.Y. Byun, ChemOne Group, Singapore, presents a new perspective on the petrochemical industry, as it tackles decarbonisation.

Petrochemical projects will constitute the majority of the upcoming oil and gas projects that are expected to commence operations in Saudi Arabia during the period 2023 – 2027.

Uniper has commissioned Sunfire to build a 30 MW pressurised alkaline electrolysis plant for the Swedish ‘Project Air’.

Albemarle has announced the official brand launch of Ketjen – its wholly-owned subsidiary that crafts tailored, advanced catalyst solutions for the petrochemical, refining and specialty chemicals industries.

Godrej Process Equipment has delivered equipment to Tecnimont for Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOCL)’s integrated paraxylene-purified terephthalic acid project at the Paradip refinery in Odisha, India.

The facility will provide customers with services for control systems engineering, staging and testing, manufacturing of differential pressure transmitters and control valves, and pressure relief and solenoid valve assembly.