Downstream petrochemical news

The contract covers the design, engineering, material specifications and procurement for two 7-kilometre special material pipelines that will transport ethylene oxide (EO) and propylene oxide (PO) from Sadara plants to PlasChem Park, a collaborative effort between Sadara and the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu (RCJY).

Enterprise Products and Navigator Holdings have announced their 50/50 JV ethylene export terminal at Enterprise’s Morgan’s Point facility in Texas will be able to export 2.2 billion pounds of ethylene a year.

A planned six-week turnaround of the company’s refinery in Kralupy nad Vltavou, the Czech Republic, has been successfully completed.

INVISTA Performance Technologies has successfully deployed its latest PTA technology on Jiaxing Petrochemical’s second PTA line.

ExxonMobil has announced greenhouse gas reduction measures that are expected to lead to significant improvements in emissions performance by 2020.

Total, Borealis and NOVA Chemicals have closed a joint venture for petrochemicals on the US Gulf Coast.

Reuters is reporting the proposed US$44 billion Ratnagiri refinery on India’s west coast is running into substantial opposition from local farmers who are refusing to surrender their land.

The two companies will explore ways to upgrade and commercialise the non-prime product generated at Borouge, the joint venture between ADNOC and Austria-based Borealis. This process, known as compounding, would take place at the proposed facility, situated in the Ruwais Industrial Complex.

Kim Melton and Jack Bittner, Johns Manville, examine five challenges that maintenance teams may encounter that could significantly hinder the chances of a successful maintenance turnaround.

The company is seeking to double revenues in Africa to over £50 million over the following three years.