Petrochemicals

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.

The EU Commission has evaluated the MACBETH project for the first time, with positive results.

The complex for processing ethane-containing gas (CPECG), under construction in the Leningrad Region, will drive an increase in Russia's share in the world oil and gas chemicals market from 2.5% to 6 – 7%.

Red Sea National Refining and Petrochemicals Co. (Red Sea Co.) has awarded Worley a services contract for a greenfield integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex in Egypt.

LyondelBasell has announced its acquisition of PolyPacific Polymers Sdn. Bhd. in Malaysia.

Maire Tecnimont Group is expanding its footprint in India with a US$170 million EPCC contract by Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOCL).

Sulzer outlines a case study in which it completed a complete compressor overhaul in less than 20 days, maximising plant productivity and uptime.