Petrochemicals
Solvay buys global polyphenylene sulfide business from Chevron Phillips
As part of the transaction, Solvay purchased the Ryton PPS unit in Chevron Phillips Chemical’s plant in Borger, Texas; the pilot plant along with the PPS research and development assets in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; and the compounding plant in Kallo-Beveren, Belgium.
Lubrizol formally acquires Warwick Chemicals
Warwick Chemicals is now part of Lubrizol Advanced Materials, reporting into Lubrizol's personal and home care business and retaining the Warwick Chemicals company name.
KBR to revamp Mosaic ammonia plant in Louisiana
KBR’s “lean FEED” approach will debottleneck the plant and increase Mosaic’s ammonia production capacity by 20% at their plant located on the banks of the Mississippi, just south of Baton Rouge.
Cleantech wins $13M equipment order for China ethylene glycol project
The order covers parts and equipment including washing, distillation, purifying, dehydration, refining and other columns, along with storage containers, heat exchangers and carbonation reactors that will be used in a project to transform glycol calcium carbide furnace tail gas into ethylene glycol.
Lubrizol acquires Weatherford’s oilfield chemicals business in US, Canada
With the close of the transaction, Lubrizol says it will officially form Lubrizol Oilfield Solutions, a new business segment for the company.
Shale gas drives new opportunities for US downstream
This shift to lighter feeds for the SC will reduce the future availability of other petrochemical feedstocks—in particular, propylene.
Fine-tune monitoring of critical compressors
In this case history, a new monitoring system was installed on a critical service hyper compressor for a Middle East (ME) ethylene complex. This unit supported two 400 Mton polyethylene (PE) units; do..
HP Editorial Comment: Alternative energy?
Alternative energy is a point-of-reference term. Natural gas is an alternative energy resource for transportation fuels. As more natural gas resources are developed, natural gas is displacing coal as ..
HP Global: State of the US petrochemical/chemical industry
After a promising start, the global economy faltered in 2014 with heightened geopolitical uncertainty; recessions in Brazil, Japan and many European nations; and slowdowns in China, the Euro Area and ..
HP Petrochemicals: Global PE demand growth to drive downstream expansions
According to IHS Chemical, global demand for polyethylene (PE) is expected to increase by more than 25% during the next five years, from approximately 85 million metric tons (metric MMt) in 2014, to m..
- TotalEnergies extends its fuel price cap policy in France until the end of April 4/7
- Navigating the montan wax challenge with renewable alternatives for polymers 4/7
- AFR selects Axens as technology provider for Texas (U.S.) refinery 4/7
- Iran has attacked Saudi Arabia's Jubail petrochemical complex, IRGC says 4/7
- Iran's Marvdasht Petrochemical complex attacked by US and Israel 4/7
- Fluor awarded engineering and design contract for America First Refining's refinery in South Texas 4/7
