Downstream petrochemical news

ExxonMobil and SABIC will proceed with their proposed Gulf Coast petrochemicals facility, including a 1.8 million t ethane steam cracker.

McDermott has been awarded a technology contract in China for a large paraxylene plant.

Clariant has released CATOFIN 311, a propane dehydrogenation catalyst which the company says has greater selectivity and a longer lifetime.

To meet growing global demand, ExxonMobil has completed the expansion of its Group II base stocks capacity at its Singapore complex.

Wood has been awarded a FEED contract for DRPIC’s proposed onshore petrochemicals facility in southern Oman.

Fluor has announced that its EPC project for Milliken’s chemical plant expansion in South Carolina is now underway.

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.