Asia/Pacific
BASF opens China mobile emissions catalysts site
The inauguration event culminates a three-year expansion project by BASF which doubles the company’s production capacity for mobile emissions catalysts in China.
Clariant opens chemical research facility in India
Located in Navi Mumbai, the new facility will host approximately 100 technical employees in chemical research and application development in the near future.
Russia’s Rosneft, China’s CNPC to increase refining, LNG collaboration
Rosneft and CNPC leaders say they intend to proceed on upstream projects in Russia, refining in China (Tianjin refinery) and several other joint venues of work cooperation.
Shell Chemicals offers gas-based fluids, solvents
The high-purity paraffinic fluids are made from gas-to-liquids (GTL) products manufactured at the world’s largest GTL plant -- Pearl GTL in Qatar, a joint venture of Shell and Qatar Petroleum.
CB&I to design gasification unit for China’s Sincier
The unit will utilize CB&I's proprietary E-GasPlus technology for a three-train facility to produce syngas for hydrogen, fuel gas and power. This plant will have the capability of operating on coal and petroleum coke, or a combination of these fuels with a liquid or solid residue from an upstream hydrocracking unit.
Celanese, Indian Oil to study building big India fuel ethanol plant
The project is expected to be located at Paradip in the Odisha State of India and will utilize petroleum coke (petcoke) from Indian Oil’s refineries as the primary ethanol feedstock.
CB&I licenses technology for China PP expansion
The unit will use CB&I's Novolen technology to produce 600,000 tpy of polypropylene. There are already two units utilizing Novolen technology on site - each with cascade and parallel lines.
BASF opens India polyurethane chemicals plant
The integrated polyurethane manufacturing facility will host a MDI (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate) splitter for processing crude MDI, a core component in the manufacture of polyurethane products.
CB&I to supply ethylene heaters to Petronas for new integrated project
The plant will utilize SRT VII cracking heaters, which are the latest generation of SRT high-selectivity heaters designed for cracking gas and liquid feedstock, to produce 1.1 million tpy of ethylene.
Increase polypropylene production via ultra-low levels of carbon monoxide—Case study
This case study investigates using ultra-low levels of carbon monoxide (CO) in propylene to increase polypropylene (PP) production. CO is a severe poison to catalyst systems for both Ziegler-Natta (Z-..
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