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The Aspen Unified solution brings planning and scheduling together in one environment to connect and automate isolated processes, maximise the yield of high value products, push closer to limits and drive improved margins.

Construction of a new Propane-Butane Mixture Production Unit has been successfully completed at the Mubarek Gas Processing Plant.

The expansion of the Black River Processing Plant adds an incremental designed inlet capacity of 200 million ft3 of natural gas per day to the previously existing designed inlet capacity of 260 million ft3 of natural gas per day.

The contract covers initial engineering services engagement for the cryogenic storage facilities of the new PDH and ethane cracker units to be built at the project.

BUA Group has selected Axens as the technology provider for its greenfield 200 000 bpd refinery and petrochemical plant in Nigeria.

The web-based software tool calculates compressor performance to predict trends and assess future performance.

The production units at the Port Arthur refinery were shut as a result of Hurricane Laura.

Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company LLC (DRPIC) has selected LyondellBasell’s polypropylene and high-density polyethylene technologies for a new facility.

In this special report, James Rockall, WLPGA, plots the path through the energy transition in the post COVID-19 world.

Evonik has acquired Porocel for US$210 million to accelerate the growth of its catalysts business.