Downstream news

The catalyst chemical washing facility is scheduled to open on 1 October 2020 at AIR-SONIC’s Sinntal, Germany location, providing service to the company’s European and Middle Eastern customers.

The company will use C3 Oleflex™ technology for propane dehydrogenation for the production of 750 000 t of polymer-grade propylene at its plant in Qinzhou, Guangxi, China.

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.