Petrochemicals

Maire Tecnimont Group has expanded its petrochemical business in India with a new US$450 million contract by IOCL.

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. subsidiaries NextChem and MET Development have signed an MOU with MC TAIF JSC (TAIF) to co-develop a new bio-degradable polymer plant in the Republic of Tatarstan (Russian Federation).

Maire Tecnimont subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a contract by Total Corbion PLA to carry out a front-end engineering design for their 100 000 tpy poly lactic acid (PLA) plant in Grandpuits, France.

INEOS has announced that its manufacturing sites in Texas and California have been awarded ISCC PLUS certification from International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC).

Axens has acquired Flowvision (Denmark, Odense), an engineering company specialised in emission abatement systems for the reduction of nitrogen oxides in flue gas from industry.

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W. R. Grace & Co., has licensed its UNIPOL PP process technology and its UNIPOL UNIPPAC process control software to Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical Chemical Co. Ltd. (Sinochem Hongrun).

Technip Energies has passed the final performance acceptance test for Hengli’s largest liquids ethylene cracker in China.

DuPont Clean Technologies has announced successful performance tests for the STRATCO alkylation units at the Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Co. (ZRCC) refinery, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China and the Yangzi Co. (YPC) refinery, Nianjing, Jiangsu, China.

Air Products has announced that the Kochi industrial gas complex is supplying syngas to the propylene derivatives petrochemical project (PDPP) at the Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL) Kochi refinery, India.

GlobalData reports that petrochemical projects drive upcoming oil and gas projects in Saudi Arabia by 2025.

The contracted backlog of projects includes work on behalf of five land or marine LNG terminals, a petrochemical complex and a modularised oil refinery, amongst others.

CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Co. (CSPC) has started up its new units to supply the Chinese market with essential petrochemicals.

OQ owned Oman Tank Terminal Co. (OTTCO) and Port of Duqm Co. (PODC) have signed two agreements regarding a sub-usufruct agreement and a berth operating license agreement.

KBR Inc. has signed a license agreement for its proprietary K-PRO™ propane dehydrogenation (PDH) technology to convert propane into propylene for JS Energy Ltd’s planned project in Pakistan.