Asia/Pacific
PolyOne opens new Asian innovation center
At the grand opening, customers and local officials participated in tours and demonstrations that showcased how PolyOne differentiates its products and services in the specialty marketplace.
Petronas taps Axens technology on RAPID refining expansion in Malaysia
Malaysia's national oil and gas company Petronas has selected Axens as a technology provider for its refinery and petrochemicals integrated development (RAPID) project in Pengerang.
PetroVietnam awards work to Technip to revamp, expand ammonia facility
Technip’s operating centers in Rome, Italy; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam will execute the contract. The expanded plant will be brought into operation in late 2017.
ExxonMobil ships 100th cargo at PNG LNG project
ExxonMobil PNG's managing director, Andrew Barry, said this milestone further underpinned PNG LNG’s reputation as a reliable producer of gas from Papua New Guinea.
Ecolab buys China water treatment firm Jianghai
Jianghai provides water treatment technologies, chemistries and services to several industries in China, including customers in power and chemicals.
Bechtel set to quadruple Queensland LNG output
Bechtel is on track to complete the construction of an additional three LNG production trains on Curtis Island by the end of 2015, quadrupling Queensland’s LNG production.
Wison Engineering touts technology for synthetic gas-to-ethylene glycol
Wison Engineering, Tianjin University and Xinxin Group will give full play to their respective advantages to enhance the development of their proprietary synthetic gas-to-ethylene glycol technology and to promote its commercialization.
Neste, Total to develop bio-solvents, technical fluids for downstream
Total Fluides will market a new line of renewable fluids for numerous applications such as paints and coatings, drilling fluids, solvents for emulsion polymerization, printing ink fluids, emollients for cosmetics and many others industrial and automotive fluids.
Evonik acquires India-based Monarch Catalyst
The company employs approximately 300 employees and will be renamed to Evonik Catalysts India. All of Evonik’s future catalyst activities in India will be operated through the newly-acquired company.
Jacobs to build Singapore VAE plant for Celanese
Celanese will broaden its capabilities throughout the Asia-Pacific region, primarily in the higher-end applications of architectural coatings, building and construction, carpets and paper industries.

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- Braskem completes first sale of circular polyethylene in South America 7/8
- bp's 440,000-bpd refinery in Whiting, Indiana (U.S.), reported flaring due to operational conditions 7/8
- UK's insolvent Lindsey oil refinery secures some crude supply to keep running for now 7/8
- Brazil's energy minister hints at possible fuel price cuts 7/8
- Marathon Galveston Bay refinery (U.S.) hydrotreater to remain shut until September 7/8