Petrochemicals

Worley has announced that it has been awarded a FEED contract for Avantium’s renewable FDCA plant.

In a recent blog post on the AFPM website, Jeff Gunnulfsen, Senior Director, Security and Risk Management for AFPM, looks at the challenges of preparing for hurricane season during a pandemic.

SparkCognition and Siemens have teamed up to deliver a new AI-driven cyber defense system for endpoint energy assets.

API Standard 521 addresses overpressure at refineries, LNG and petrochemical facilities.

Pertamina and CPC Taiwan agreed to follow up on the cooperation in the development of the Integrated Petrochemical Industrial Complex.

The AFPM safety team discuss how the fuel and petrochemical industries are evolving their safety practices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

LUKOIL has announced that its lubricants plant in Kazakhstan has begun delivering lubricants to China.

BASF has announced that it has begun piling for the first plants of its Verbund project in Zhanjiang, China.

GlobalData reports that the COVID-19 pandemic curtails the investment wave in petrochemical industry.

The AFPM has prepared answers to some common questions about how its industries prepare for, and respond to, hurricanes and weather events.

Clariant and Shanghai Huaxi have announced a joint project to enhance a hydrogen production unit in China.

Roeland Baan has officially joined Haldor Topsoe as the company’s new CEO.

Neste and Covestro have started a strategic cooperation in Europe to promote the use of sustainable raw materials in plastics production.

BP has licensed its latest generation purified terephthalic acid technol-ogy to Dongying Weilian Chemical in China.

Wood Mackenzie has reported that the global appetite for plastics is the key to China’s polyolefins demand growth in 2020.