Petrochemicals

Chandra Asri and Vopak have signed a letter of intent to set up a joint venture company for collaboration in the industrial infrastructure business in Cilegon, Banten Province, Indonesia.

NES Fircroft and Energy Jobline have released the results of the second Women in Energy Global Study.

Propylene demand is likely to rebound amid improving macro-economic environment, says GlobalData.

Sumitomo Chemical and Saudi Aramco have made a loan of US$2 billion to Petro Rabigh in response to the challenging market conditions.

MOL Group and ABB embark on a three-year collaborative project to transform Asset Integrity Management (AIM) across four key chemical and refinery sites in Europe.

Enclosed Ground Flare technology has been installed at the company's petrochemical complex in Cilegon, Indonesia, to minimise the social and environmental impacts of plant operations.

The upgrade is expected to reduce Shell Moerdijk’s annual CO2 emissions by about 10%.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has announced that it has cancelled permits for the Mountaineer storage project.

Range will provide 15 000 bpd of ethane as feedstock for PTT Global Chemical America’s (PTTGCA) planned ethane cracker along the Ohio River in Belmont County.

Siemens Energy has announced that it will locate its corporate centre in Berlin.

Evonik and Siemens Energy have commissioned a pilot plant sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals.

Hengli Petrochemical Co. Ltd. has successfully started up seven UOP Polybed™ pressure swing adsorption (PSA) units supplying high-purity hydrogen at its complex in Dalian, Liaoning, China.

The companies' boards have approved initial discussions to study the feasibility of a merger.

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC has announced that Justine Smith has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Petrochemicals.

The new plant, to be operated by local Polyplastics subsidiary TOPAS Advanced Polymers GmbH, will have a capacity of 20 000 tpy, more than doubling the company’s current output.