Asia Pacific downstream news

Air Liquide has signed a contract for the supply of hydrogen to Pilipinas Shell’s Tabangao refinery in Batangas, Philippines.

Clariant has announced the favourable results for the first year of operation of its methanol synthesis catalyst in Yinchuan, China.

SUEZ has won the contract for a centralised wastewater treatment facility in the Dongying Chemical Industry Park, China.

LyondellBasell has signed a MoU to expand in China through a joint venture with Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group.

Saudi Aramco has signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s Zhejiang Free Trade Zone, expanding the company’s downstream investment.

GlobalData has reported that Asia will hold a 43% share of new-build liquids storage capacity by 2023.

GlobalData has reported that Asia is to lead global new-build crude distillation unit capacity growth by 2023.

Clariant is making an investment to increase catalyst production capacity at its catalyst plant in Panjin, China.

Chevron Lummus Global has been awarded a contract by Weifang Hongrun Petrochemical Technology for two petrochemical units based in China.

GlobalData has reported that Asia will lead LNG regasification capacity growth from new-build projects between 2019 and 2023.