Petrochemicals

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.

At the recent World Petrochemicals Conference, SABIC's Vice Chairman and CEO referred to a report that estimated digital transformation could deliver up to half a trillion dollars’ worth of economic benefits to the chemical industry over the next 10 years.

The American Petroleum Institute has awarded its Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement to Gary R. Heminger, former chairman and CEO of Marathon Petroleum Corp.

KBR has announced that it has secured a contract from a leading midstream company for a world-scale olefins production facility to be built on the US Gulf Coast.

ExxonMobil has announced that construction of the new linear alpha olefins (LAO) manufacturing unit at its Baytown, Texas, integrated petrochemical complex is targeting commercial start up in mid-2023.

Lummus Technology has announced that Ujjal Mukherjee will become the company’s Chief Technology Officer as of 1 April 2022.

The sixth annual ‘Global Energy Talent Index (GETI)’ has revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated revolution in ways of working in the petrochemcials sector.

Yokogawa Electric Corp. and JSR Corp. have announced the successful conclusion of a field test in which AI was used to autonomously run a chemical plant for 35 days.

The Merah Putih Catalyst Factory Development Project has been now implemented through various subsidiaries of Pertamina, with the aim of accelerating the production of catalysts to meet Indonesia's domestic industry needs.

ABB has been awarded a major contract by NatureWorks to automate their new greenfield plant in Thailand, converting sugar cane to the polylactic acid biopolymer, Ingeo.