Petrochemicals
HP Viewpoint: Sound energy policy needed to support 21st century economy
The shale energy revolution has overturned every assumption we once held about the US long-term energy outlook. Thanks to technological advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, we hav..
HP Industry Perspectives: The best modern-day inventions according to chemical engineers
The best inventions are often influenced by an individual’s background, job, education and so forth. So what are the top 10 inventions according to chemical engineers? The Institution of Chemical..
HP Industry Metrics
According to the US Energy Information Administration’s Short-Term Energy Outlook February 2014, forecast global petroleum and other liquids supply will increase by 1.7 million bpd (MMbpd) in 201..
Catalyst demand to increase over the next five years
The global demand for petroleum refining, chemical synthesis and polymerization catalysts will rise 5.8 %/yr to $19.5 billion in 2016, as listed in Table 1. The growth is directly related to increasin..
Catalyst news
Catalyst development—both fundamental and applied scienceHaldor Topsøe’s HyBRIM catalyst technology is an improved production technique for both CoMo and NiMo hydrotreating catalysts. C..
Huntsman opens new China polyurethanes plant
The 21,000 m2 plant, which cost $20 million, is Huntsman's first TPU production facility in the Asia Pacific region and complements the company's existing TPU plants in the USA and Germany.
Fire halts major Russian polymers operation
Lukoil’s Stavrolen petrochemical plant experienced an explosion and fire in the ethylene plant.
Eastman Chemical to expand carboxylic acid plants in Texas, Tennessee
The additional capacity is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2014 and will add approximately 50 million pounds of carboxylic acids to support increasing internal and external demand.
Agrium approves Texas nitrogen facility expansion
The expansion project will add a new urea production unit of approximately 610,000 tonnes, of which approximately 100,000 tonnes will be Diesel Emission Fuel (DEF) grade urea.
China’s Sinopec seeks investors for $20 billion in oil retail unit sales
Sinopec’s move is its first step to meet a government promise to encourage more private investment in state-owned industries, as part of China’s biggest package of reforms since the 1990s.
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