Asia Pacific downstream news

Zeon Corp. will begin construction of a new production plant for cyclo-olefin polymers (COP) at its business site in Yuka Town, Japan.

Uniper and GSPC have finalised an up to 10-year LNG agreement for deliveries of up to 0.5 million tpy into India.

MAIRE has announced that NEXTCHEM, through its subsidiary CONSER, has been awarded a licensing and process design package for the deployment of its technologies for the co-production of Dimethyl succinate (DMS) and 1.4-Butanediol (BDO) by a major state-owned chemical player in China.

SK Innovation has been selected to lead a landmark LNG power project in Nghe An Province, Vietnam.

Worley will provide technical advisory and client engineering support for the development of New Zealand’s LNG import terminal.

HAMR Energy has announced the close of its AUS$10 million Series A funding round, securing investment from major aviation companies Airbus and Qantas, as well as leading global industrial firm thyssenkrupp Uhde.

Borouge, Borealis, Catalytic Finance Foundation, Pelita Mekar Semesta (PMS), and Reciki Solusi Indonesia, are set to establish Indonesia’s first fully integrated circular waste management ecosystem.

Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical JSC (BSR) has signed several memoranda of understandings (MoUs) with leading US energy firms, marking a fresh step forward in bilateral energy cooperation.

Provaris Energy has announced it has entered into a MoU with Himile to assess fabrication of and costs of proprietary LCO2 tanks at Himile’s manufacturing site in Rushan, China.

Petrobras has renewed and expanded crude oil sales contracts with India’s main state-owned refiners during a global energy industry leaders’ meeting, held in the city of Goa, India.