Downstream petrochemical news

Consumption of ethane has grown every year since 2010 in the US, and more ethane is now consumed in the country than either jet fuel or propane.

Around 110 000 tpy of fossil-based ingredients will be substituted with renewable carbon sources using BASF’s certified biomass balance approach. The measure will ramp up quickly and avoid around 200 000 t of CO2 emissions in total.

The EU Fund announced a grant decision of €88 million to Neste’s clean hydrogen project in Porvoo, Finland.

MCO-I has secured a contract to deliver compressor train equipment for Chevron Phillips Chemicals' new propylene unit in Texas.

Clariant’s Catalysts business has been awarded three new contracts by China’s Lihuayi Group for its upcoming petrochemicals production units.

Neste is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, where the company are working on commercialising the chemical recycling of waste plastic.

The companies will collaborate to bring significant advancements to propane dehydrogenation technology.

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.