Petrochemicals

AFPM President & CEO Chet Thompson issues statement explaining that refiners and petrochemical manufacturers are integral to vehicle efficiency goals.

Chart Industries Inc. has announced the formation of ChartWater™, a division of Chart Industries within the Specialty Products segment, which will bring additional innovative water treatment solutions to market.

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. has announced that its subsidiaries have been awarded a petrochemical contract by Kazanorgsintez PJSC.

Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Co. Ltd. will use again LyondellBasell Lupotech T high-pressure polyethylene technology at their facility located in Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, China.

McDermott International Ltd and CTCI have announced that their JV has received the mechanical completion certificate for GCGV MEG facility.

Lummus Technology and Chevron Lummus Global have announced multiple technology contracts from North Huajin Refining and Petrochemical Co. Ltd for a grassroots refinery and petrochemical complex.

Nalco Water, Ecolab’s water and process management business, has announced the formation of its new Global Chemical organisation.

Linde has announced that it has started up its new on-site facility in Qinzhou, China, supplying oxygen and other industrial gases to Shanghai Huayi's new chemical complex.

The US EIA reports that CO2 emissions from energy consumption in the US fell to the lowest level since 1983 last year.

ExxonMobil and SABIC have announced that their joint venture, Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, has reached mechanical completion of a monoethylene glycol unit and two polyethylene units.

Tecnimont S.p.A. has been awarded a contract by Repsol for the realisation of a polypropylene unit and a linear polyethylene unit on an EPC lump sum turn-key basis.

McDermott Intl Ltd has been awarded an engineering and procurement contract for a spent caustic treatment solution on the Gas Chemical Complex (GCC) project from Heat Transfer Technologies DMCC (HTT).

Haldor Topsoe has described the introduction of the system as a ‘key milestone’ in its digital transformation.

Technip Energies has announced that the Bora LyondellBasell Petrochemical Co. Ltd’s 1000 tpy ethylene plant reached performance guarantees.

According to GlobalData, Asia is expected to lead the global polypropylene capacity additions with a capacity of 40.32 million tpy by 2025.