Downstream petrochemical news

KBR has announced that it has secured a contract from a leading midstream company for a world-scale olefins production facility to be built on the US Gulf Coast.

ExxonMobil has announced that construction of the new linear alpha olefins (LAO) manufacturing unit at its Baytown, Texas, integrated petrochemical complex is targeting commercial start up in mid-2023.

The sixth annual ‘Global Energy Talent Index (GETI)’ has revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated revolution in ways of working in the petrochemcials sector.

TOYO has been selected as the commissioned contractor of a project to assess the feasibility of electrifying ethylene cracking furnaces in Thailand, in order to support the country's net zero goals.

Honeywell has introduced a new solution for producing renewable naphtha for petrochemical production.

Shell Catalysts & Technologies’ C2 FE selective hydrogenation catalyst was used at the 750 000 tpy heavy-feed grassroots ethylene plant in Daesan, South Korea.

TOYO has been awarded a contract from a newly-established Chinese subsidiary of Polyplastics Co., Ltd. to construct a polyacetal plant in Nantong, China.

BASF has enhanced the company’s portfolio of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate with the introduction of the Lupranat® ZERO – a greenhouse gas-neutral aromatic isocyanate.

The companies have signed an MoU to commercialise and accelerate the adoption of RDR technology in a bid to significantly reduce GHG emissions in steam cracking plants.

Sulzer Chemtech will provide its SuRe™ BTX technology to recover high-value circular petrochemicals downstream of Encina’s mixed plastics catalytic conversion process.