Petrochemicals

Lotte Chemical, LG Chem and YNCC are set to restart their naphtha crackers in December and January.

Maire Tecnimont’s subsidiary has been awarded an EPCC contract by Indian Oil Corp. Ltd for the construction of new petrochemical derivatives units in India.

The process technology will be used for a 400 000 tpy polypropylene unit to be built in Svobodny, Amur region, Russia.

Neste has said that it has successfully processed 400 t of liquefied plastic waste at its refinery in Finland this autumn.

EnerMech has appointed Paul Cockerill as its Regional Director for the Middle East and Caspian as it seeks to further grow its upstream, downstream and petrochemical sectors in 2021.

API has issued a statement confirming that it stands ready to work with the Biden administration on energy and climate policy.

As part of the transaction, Petroleum Service Corp. will absorb Fryoux's tankerman operations along the US Gulf Coast.

The company's Refining capital budget includes US$521 million of sustaining capital for reliability, safety and environmental projects.

Lummus Technology and Chevron Lummus Global have announced multiple technology contracts with PT Pertamina Rosneft Pengolahan dan Petrokimia.

With the US$69 billion acquisition of SABIC in June and investments in oil-to-chemicals technology, Aramco has positioned itself for downstream growth.

Kaijin Blue Sky Energy is building a facility in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, using LyondellBasell's polypropylene technology.

The deals were struck with Sanmenxia Aoke Chemical Industry Co., Ltd, based in Sanmenxia City, and ABB Engineering Shanghai.

Neles has signed seven new distributor agreements and one agent agreement in South and Central America during the last three quarters of 2020.

Vysus Group has secured a global framework agreement with LANXESS to drive improvements in maintenance and asset integrity across its global operations assets.

Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group has selected Johnson Matthey as its collaboration partner for its latest methanol project.