Asia Pacific downstream news

Linde has started up its new gas production facility in Singapore, supplying industrial gases to Evonik Industries’ methionine complex.

Chevron Lummus Global has been awarded a licence and engineering contract for a lubricants base oil plant at IndianOil’s Haldia Refinery.

Evonik and thyssenkrupp Industrial will license HPPO technology for the production of propylene oxide to Qixiang Tengda in China.

BASF plans to build a second tert-Butylamine plant in Nanjing, China, increasing its global capacity by 30%.

GlobalData has reported that China will drive global liquids storage capacity growth by 2023, adding 135 million bbl.

Wood Mackenzie forecasts that China will import more LNG than Japan as early as 2022, making it the largest importer in the world.

The Government of Indonesia has approved INPEX’s revised plan of development for the Abadi LNG Project.

GlobalData reports that China will drive global propylene industry growth between 2019 and 2030.

IndianOil has launched two new grades of engine oils for new generation petrol and diesel vehicles.

Nayara Energy will use Grace polypropylene technology to produce phthalate-free homopolymers at the Vadinar Refinery in India.