Downstream petrochemical news

According to GlobalData, Asia is expected to lead the global polypropylene capacity additions with a capacity of 40.32 million tpy by 2025.

The complex for processing ethane-containing gas (CPECG), under construction in the Leningrad Region, will drive an increase in Russia's share in the world oil and gas chemicals market from 2.5% to 6 – 7%.

Red Sea National Refining and Petrochemicals Co. (Red Sea Co.) has awarded Worley a services contract for a greenfield integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex in Egypt.

LyondelBasell has announced its acquisition of PolyPacific Polymers Sdn. Bhd. in Malaysia.

Maire Tecnimont Group is expanding its footprint in India with a US$170 million EPCC contract by Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOCL).

Sulzer outlines a case study in which it completed a complete compressor overhaul in less than 20 days, maximising plant productivity and uptime.

Sulzer Chemtech has completed the delivery of key polymerisation technologies to Denka’s styrenics resin plant in Singapore weeks ahead of schedule.

DuPont has announced the successful startup of the STRATCO alkylation units at the Zhongke Refinery and Petrochemical Co. LTC refinery in Zhejiang, China and the Sinopec Shanghai Company (SPC) refinery in Jinshan, Shanghai, China.

Lummus Technology has announced that its Green Circle business and Synthos have started collaborating to commercialise Synthos' biobutadiene technology.

According to Global Data, Asia is expected to register the highest refinery fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCU) capacity additions globally during 2021 to 2025, contributing about 56% of the total capacity additions by 2025.