Downstream petrochemical news

Nayara Energy will use Grace polypropylene technology to produce phthalate-free homopolymers at the Vadinar Refinery in India.

OMV has decided to invest €64 million in the construction of an ISO C4 plant in Burghausen, Germany.

The world’s largest catalytic dehydrogenation plant, producing propane and isobutene, has been successfully started up in Liaoning Province, China.

Sasol has announced the opening of its new alkoxylation plant in Nanjing, China.

BASF is increasing its production capacity of isononanoic acid and 2-ethylhexanoic acid by over 23%, to 68 000 tpy.

Shenghong Petrochemical has awarded DuPont contracts for the supply of its alkylation technology.

Air Liquide has signed a long-term oxygen and nitrogen supply agreement with GCGV and announces plans to build a new air separation unit in Texas.

Chevron Phillips Chemical and Qatar Petroleum have signed an agreement to jointly develop a petrochemical plant in the US Gulf Coast region.

Wood has been appointed program management partner by INEOS for its European petrochemicals development project.

Saudi Aramco has signed 12 agreements worth billions of dollars with various South Korean companies.