Petrochemicals

Sibur signed a deal in June to sell up to 1 million tpy of polyethylene to China’s Sinopec from ZapSibNefteKhim.

MOL has opened a new R&D centre in Százhalombatta, Hungary, to develop polyol products that meet the needs of customers.

Samsung Engineering will build a 5000 tpd methanol production facility in Bintulu, Sarawak, eastern Malaysia.

Arcanum Infrastructure LLC and Axens NA Inc. have announced the successful ongoing operations and production of 1-Butene at Raven Butene-1 LLC.

Sadara Chemical Co. has announced that it has satisfied all of the requirements originally laid out in the project financing agreements with its lenders.

INEOS Olefins and Polymers USA has agreed terms with Sasol to acquire its 50% membership interest in Gemini HDPE LLC.

Braskem and Haldor Topsoe have announced that they have achieved their first-ever demo-scale production of bio-based monoethylene glycol (MEG).

Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract from Ningbo Kingfa Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. for two propane dehydrogenation units

Nexus and Shell have signed a strategic supply agreement to scale up commercial production of chemicals from plastic waste.

The joint venture will design, build and operate a polyacrylic acid and emulsion polymers plant in Saudi Arabia.

Southeast Asian companies in the plastics industry have been forced to downsize their CAPEX for 2020 as a measure to sustain during the crisis.

The partnership will guide and support oil and gas companies in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and Italy in their digitisation endeavors.

The joint venture will work with Lummus’ existing customers and potential customers to implement digital analysis and operative solutions to their refining, petrochemical and gas processing assets.

The expansion project adds eight new research and development laboratories with equipment for developing new proprietary technologies to support innovations in Catalysis, Recycling and 3D Printing.

The Lake Charles Chemicals Project in Louisiana, US, is now complete following the start-up of the low-density polyethylene unit.