Petrochemicals

Maire Tecnimont’s subsidiary, NextChem, has inaugurated a new re-processing and upcycling plant for polymers in the Kezad Industrial Zone in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

OMV and Wood have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enter into a mutually exclusive collaboration agreement for the commercial licensing of OMV’s proprietary ReOil technology.

The new unit installed at IRPC's petrochemical plant will maximise polymer-grade propylene production and the recovery of polymer-grade ethylene, to be used as feedstock for petrochemical derivate units at the same plant.

GTC Vorro, a turnkey provider of environmental services and process technologies to oil and gas, refining and petrochemical companies, is now offering BTX Gold™ solvents for petrochemical separations.

Emerson has announced the evolution of the Plantweb™ digital ecosystem to incorporate the AspenTech portfolio of asset optimisation software powered by industrial AI.

INEOS O&P Europe has announced a €30 million investment in the conversion of its plant in Lillo, at the Port of Antwerp, to enable its existing capacity to produce either monomodal or bi-modal grades of HDPE.

Repsol has accelerated its commitment to polyolefins recycling by becoming Acteco's shareholder.

CF Industries has entered into a commercial agreement with ExxonMobil to capture and permanently store up to 2 million tpy of CO2 emissions from its manufacturing complex in Louisiana, US.

Nokia is enhancing its range of ruggedised user equipment for use in hazardous, flammable, explosive and dusty environments in the oil, gas and chemical industries.

Elliott Group has announced the release of its new CO2Phase hybrid compressor pump solution, equipped to handle any project and/or equipment related to CO2 compression needs.

The companies have agreed to build a renewable plastics supply chain utilising bio-based hydrocarbons for the production of styrene monomer and its mass-balanced renewable plastics derivatives, i.e. acrylonitrile butadiene styrene.

BASF has introduced CircleStar™ – a dehydration catalyst that processes renewable feedstocks and is capable of achieving a 99.5% selectivity for ethanol-to-ethylene conversion.

In April 2022, Neste announced that it would merge the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Neste Engineering Solutions Oy, into Neste Corp. The plan has now been completed, and the merger will take place on 1 October 2022.

W. R. Grace & Co., an independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst and polypropylene technology, has licensed its UNIPOL® PP technology to Red Sea National Petrochemicals Co.

Lummus Technology has announced that Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. has selected its Novolen polypropylene technology for a new unit in Shandong Province, China.