Middle East downstream news

Masdar, Mitsubishi Chemical Group and INPEX are collaborating to explore setting up the world’s first commercial-scale e-polypropylene production in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

For the first time in the MENA region, TotalEnergies, Aramco and SABIC have converted oil derived from plastic waste into circular polymers.

McDermott has been awarded a contract by ADNOC to provide FEED services for the new Fujairah LNG facility in the UAE.

ADNOC and Mubadala have announced a strategic transaction with Borealis, whereby ADNOC will acquire a 25% shareholding in Borealis from Mubadala.

Amarinth has delivered bespoke and compact API 610 vertical in-line pumps to be used at SABIC's petrochemical refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

Ibn Sina, a JV between SABIC, Celanese and Duke Energy, is now certified for circular methanol production under the ISCC – a globally leading certification body.

Wood has been awarded a suite of contracts and strategic framework renewals to optimise energy production, reduce carbon impact and accelerate the energy transition in the Middle East.

Lanaz will use Honeywell UOP modular naphtha hydrotreating and fixed-bed platforming process units to produce cleaner-burning fuels at its refinery in Iraq.

AD Ports Group has announced that its Industrial Cities & Free Zone cluster in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is now home to 95 companies in the polymer sector.

TA’ZIZ and RIL have agreed to launch TA’ZIZ EDC & PVC, a world-scale chemical production partnership at the TA’ZIZ Industrial Chemicals Zone in the UAE.