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Taiwan's Formosa Petchem issues force majeure as Iran war disrupts feedstock delivery

For refined fuel products such as diesel, jet fuel and gasoline, the company is still proceeding with its export deliveries for March and April, although there is likely to be no spot availability for April.

Asia refineries, petchem firms cut runs as Middle East conflict disrupts feedstock supplies

Asian steam crackers, which source more than 60% of their naphtha feedstock from the Middle East, have been quick to declare force majeure on petrochemical supplies to customers.

Asia refining margins rocket to highest in nearly 4 years on Hormuz supply disruption

Design safer reactors: Use nullcline analysis to predict transient behavior in CSTRs

Mercaptan recombination in naphtha hydrotreating units: A startup challenge

Malaysia's Prefchem cuts refinery output after shutting gasoline unit

Technip Energies awarded two large contracts by BPCL for new units at Bina and Mumbai refineries in India

Asahi Kasei, Mitsui Chemicals and Mitsubishi Chemical establish entity for ethylene plant decarbonization

Engineering a low-cost alternative catalyst for producing sustainable petrochemicals

Marathon overhauling Galveston Bay refinery, FCCU

The 140,000-bpd FCC-3 is scheduled to be shut for up to eight weeks for the overhaul, the sources said.