Asia Pacific downstream news

Clariant has been awarded a second catalyst contract with Dongguan Grand Resource in China.

Shenghong Refining has awarded KBR a contract for vinyl acetate monomer in China.

Sulzer has released a case study of a recent project undertaken in China to install 12 pumps for a refiner.

BP has signed a gas supply agreement with ENN for 300 000 tpy of pipeline gas regasified from LNG.

Kelvion has announced that an Asian refinery group has selected its heat exchangers as part of a modernisation programme.

GlobalData’s latest report has found that Asia is set to spearhead global refinery CDU capacity additions through 2024.

Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical has selected Axens selective hydrogenation catalysts for its petrochemical project.

GlobalData has reported that global polypropylene capacity additions will be driven by China and India.

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

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