Petrochemicals

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.

Asahi Kasei has formed a strategic partnership with Genomatica regarding HMD based on biomass-derived raw materials.

SABIC has announced a new collaboration with Kraton to deliver certified renewable butadiene from its TRUCIRCLE portfolio for use in Kraton’s renewable styrenic block copolymers.

BASF has launched Fourtitude – a new FCC catalyst designed to maximise butylenes from resid feedstocks.

The companies' programmes have been designed to meet the continued growth of Indonesia's domestic petrochemical product market.

The funding will finance the construction of Encina’s first plastic waste-to-aromatics recycling plant in Pennsylvania, US.

BASF will almost double the production capacity for its synthetic ester base stocks at its site in Jinshan, China, due to the rising demand for high-performance lubricants in Asia Pacific.

Huajin Aramco Petrochemical Co., a joint venture (JV) between Aramco, North Huajin Chemical Industries Group Corp., and Panjin Xincheng Industrial Group, will develop the liquids-to-chemicals complex.