Downstream petrochemical news

W. R. Grace & Co., has licensed its UNIPOL PP process technology and its UNIPOL UNIPPAC process control software to Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical Chemical Co. Ltd. (Sinochem Hongrun).

Technip Energies has passed the final performance acceptance test for Hengli’s largest liquids ethylene cracker in China.

DuPont Clean Technologies has announced successful performance tests for the STRATCO alkylation units at the Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Co. (ZRCC) refinery, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China and the Yangzi Co. (YPC) refinery, Nianjing, Jiangsu, China.

Air Products has announced that the Kochi industrial gas complex is supplying syngas to the propylene derivatives petrochemical project (PDPP) at the Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL) Kochi refinery, India.

OQ owned Oman Tank Terminal Co. (OTTCO) and Port of Duqm Co. (PODC) have signed two agreements regarding a sub-usufruct agreement and a berth operating license agreement.

KBR Inc. has signed a license agreement for its proprietary K-PRO™ propane dehydrogenation (PDH) technology to convert propane into propylene for JS Energy Ltd’s planned project in Pakistan.

Subsidiaries of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. have been awarded a package of the integrated PDH-PP complex project, relating to the realisation of two polypropylene units.

Uzbekistan GTL LLC has issued an update on the current state of the construction of its complex for the production of synthetic liquid fuel in the region.

Shell Catalysts & Technologies will supply ethylene oxide catalyst to Jiangsu Dynamic Chemical, and will provide technical services utilising Shell’s upstream and downstream expertise.

Clariant’s additives business aims to support the needs of China’s growth industries, with new facilities to foster R&D and joint application technology developments at the One Clariant Campus (OCC).