Downstream petrochemical news

Setting almost 400 modules, Mammoet achieved successful scope completion at Sasol’s ethane cracker and derivatives project at Lake Charles.

DuPont Sustainable Solutions will assist Rain Carbon with its risk management for the company’s global safety support programme.

The second to come online out of seven in its Lake Charles Chemicals Project, Sasol’s unit will produce ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol.

INEOS has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Aramco and Total, to build three new plants in the Jubail 2 complex in Saudi Arabia.

BASF-YPC has started up its second propionic acid plant with SINOPEC in Nanjing, China.

BASF has announced that it has successfully developed a process to produce methanol with no greenhouse gas emissions.

McDermott has been awarded a FEED contract by MOL for their petrochemical complex in Hungary.

Advisian Digital has partnered with USA DeBusk to launch a commercial robot for catalyst unloading from fixed bed refinery and petrochemical vessels.

The American Chemistry Council has reported on the current outlook for US chemical production.

AVEVA technology will be used to digitally optimise process engineering and simulation at Covestro following the multi-million euro agreement.