Petrochemicals

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.

Asia will lead the global purified terephthalic acid (PTA) industry capacity additions between 2022 and 2026 with a share of 77%, driven by new-build and expansion projects, forecasts GlobalData.

Nuberg EPC has announced that it has been selected by Indian Oil Corp. Ltd for the construction of 400 tpd sulfur recovery unit.

KBR has signed a master license and engineering agreement with Giammarco-Vertrocoke S.R.L. for KBR to license its carbon capture technology globally.

PT Kilang Pertamina International is set to use Grace's UNIPOL polypropylene technology as part of its larger initiative – the Trans-Pacific Petrochemical Indotama olefin complex development project in Indonesia.