Downstream contract news

Neles has signed seven new distributor agreements and one agent agreement in South and Central America during the last three quarters of 2020.

Samsung Engineering will build a 5000 tpd methanol production facility in Bintulu, Sarawak, eastern Malaysia.

Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract from Ningbo Kingfa Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. for two propane dehydrogenation units

The contract was awarded by Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China's Nanshan Group.

The South Texas Pipeline System connects growing petrochemical markets in South Texas, Easton’s large salt dome storage position at Markham, Texas, and Easton’s distribution pipelines in the Houston Ship Channel and Mont Belvieu areas.

The process technology will be used for a 450 000 tpy high density polyethylene (HDPE) facility to be built in Pulau Muara Besar, Brunei Darussalam.

The UNIPOL PP facility, located in Tuban, Indonesia, will include two lines, each designed to produce 580 000 tpy of polypropylene.

McDermott has secured the next phase of an ethane cracking project from China National Chemical Engineering & Construction Corp. Seven, Ltd.

Green Fuels and Aris Bioenergy are to create a biodiesel refining joint venture in India.

Lummus Technology will supply 14 cracking furnaces for a Gas Chemical Complex that is part of the Ethane-rich Gas Processing Complex (GCC EGPC) located near Ust-Luga on the Gulf of Finland.