Petrochemicals

Eastern Pacific Shipping has won a bid to purchase, build, and operate four 98 000 m3 VLECs for China-based Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical.

Shell & AMG Recycling B.V. has arranged with Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co., Ltd. to evaluate the potential for construction and operation of a spent catalyst recycling facility in Yantai, China.

W. R. Grace & Co. has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology to Dongguan Grand Resource.

Evides Industriewater is to build a new demi water installation at BASF’s site in Antwerp, Belgium.

Lummus Technology's Novolen business has been awarded a contract by Hengyi Industries for a large-scale polypropylene unit in Brunei.

Borealis has announced that its new naphtha cavern in Porvoo, Finland, has now been safely commissioned.

Wood Mackenzie’s 2020 Energy and Commodities Summit Asia Pacific edition recently started, with experts sharing their views on how the energy sector is changing in light of the oil price crash, COVID-19 and the latest carbon-neutrality trends.

NOVA Chemicals has said the sale of its expandable styrenics business to Alpek will allow it to focus on its olefin and polyethylene business.

SABIC has said the two companies are now considering the integration of Saudi Aramco’s existing refineries in Yanbu with a mixed feed steam cracker and downstream olefin derivative units.

The Digital Reliability Platform is an asset performance management solution to predict equipment health, monitor performance, and enable advanced maintenance across its operations to eliminate unplanned downtime.

ARLANXEO's olefins business produces butadiene and raffinate, and is located at the Bio-Industrial Park Sarnia in Ontario, Canada.

Linde GmbH and Shell have announced an exclusive collaboration agreement on ethane-oxidative dehydrogenation (E-ODH) technology for ethylene production.

Alfa Laval has won two orders to supply compact heat exchangers to a petrochemical plant in China and a refinery in Mexico.

Lummus Technology has announced that it has formed a new business entity called Green Circle LLC, to capture new opportunities in the energy transition.

The global polyvinyl chloride capacity is poised to see considerable growth by 2024, potentially increasing from 56.13 million tpy in 2019 to 65.60 million tpy in 2024.