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Frames has been awarded a contract to supply a hydrogen recovery and purification system for the MOL Danube Refinery.

Hengyi is planning to add a 280 000 bpd crude oil refinery and a 2 million tpy paraxylene unit at its complex in Palau Muara Besar.

The technology will be supplied to a gas chemical complex currently under construction on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.

Australia's government has announced plans to subsidise the country's refineries in order to keep them open wherever commercially possible.

Braskem is using Grace’s UNIPOL PP Process Technology and catalyst systems at its new polypropylene production line in La Porte, Texas, US.

The US's only offshore terminal, the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), stopped loading tanker ships on Sunday, while the port of New Orleans closed on Monday.

The work was delivered in preparation for the construction of three, 30 m diameter fuel storage tanks at the Sydney Terminal of Vopak.

In response to falling fuel demand, the integration of a refinery with a petrochemicals plant can improve the revenue generation potential of refiners, says GlobalData.

The company is exploring the shutdown of its refinery operations in Naantali and focusing the Naantali site on the terminal and harbour operations.

Asia’s ethylene glycol capacity is expected to increase from 23.1 million tpy in 2019 to 40.08 million tpy in 2024, at an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 11%, says GlobalData.