Downstream news

BASF has introduced Fourte FCC catalyst for refiners targeting an increase to their gasoline pool octane.

PRCI research indicates that vapour corrosion inhibitors reduce corrosion of soil-side bottom plates of aboveground petroleum storage tanks.

Bear Head LNG and Cape Breton Building and Construction Trades have signed a Memorandum of Agreement, ensuring access to a skilled workforce.

Orpic aims to meet plastic demand with its Liwa Plastics Industries Complex project, which will include a refinery, aromatics plant, steam cracker and downstream polypropylene and polyethylene plants.

Saudi Aramco and SABIC have awarded a contract to KBR for the development of part of a crude-oil-to-chemicals complex.

Praxair has started up two new air separation plants to supply China National Offshore Oil Corp.’s petrochemical park.

McDermott International Inc. has been awarded a contract for engineering, procurement and construction of storage tanks.

TSA responds to the UK government’s ‘Road to Zero Strategy’.

Jiangsu Jiarui Chemical Co. Ltd will use a Honeywell UOP technology to produce polymer-grade propylene at its facility in the Taixing Industrial Zone.

Gazprom has held a ceremony celebrating the shipment of the first spiral heat exchanger produced in Russia for the Amur gas processing plant.