Petrochemicals

The AFPM has announced the winners of the 2021 Annual Safety Awards – part of the refining and petrochemical industries’ ongoing mission to enhance and recognise outstanding workplace safety.

Elliott Group has announced that Takanobu Miyaki has been appointed CEO, and Shane Reph as COO.

hte has been awarded the supply of a high throughput unit as the result of a tender floated by AIST, and will commission and install the unit at AIST’s research centre in Japan.

GCMD was set up to help drive decarbonisation of the maritime industry and bp is pleased to be working with the organisation to help further this aim.

Together with Siheung City and Siheung Urban Corp., LG Chem has signed an MoU for the construction of a waste plastic recycling system.

INEOS Aromatics has completed a US$70 million modernisation of its PTA plant in Merak, Indonesia, that will significantly reduce emissions and increase capacity.

The EIA’s 2022 Annual Energy Outlook report projects growth in consumption of NGLs in the bulk chemicals industry.

Eastman has entered into an exclusive negotiation with Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine as the preferred location of a molecular recycling facility that it plans to build in France.

BASF Venture Capital has announced a strategic investment in Oceanworks – a sustainable plastic solutions provider that brings traceability and transparency through the digitalisation of recycled plastics.

MCO-I has secured a contract to deliver compressor train equipment for Chevron Phillips Chemicals' new propylene unit in Texas.

The companies have signed an agreement to form a joint venture company focused on providing oilfield and industrial chemicals in Saudi Arabia.

Clariant’s Catalysts business has been awarded three new contracts by China’s Lihuayi Group for its upcoming petrochemicals production units.

Neste is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, where the company are working on commercialising the chemical recycling of waste plastic.

Amarinth has delivered bespoke and compact API 610 vertical in-line pumps to be used at SABIC's petrochemical refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

The companies will collaborate to bring significant advancements to propane dehydrogenation technology.