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Samsung Total Petrochemicals, the Joined Venture between Samsung General Chemicals and Total Petrochemicals, has selected the LyondellBasell Lupotech T process technology for their co-polymer project in Daesan, South Korea. Key features of Lupotech T technology include low manufacturing and investment costs, fast start-up and grade changes, high on-stream factor and capacities of up to 450 KT per […]
Qatar Petroleum International, a QP’s subsidiary, has joined the partners for the Petrochemical complex, to be built in the Long Son Island in Vietnam. In the Joined Venture are also involved PetroVietnam, Vinachem, Siam Cement Group (SGC), Thai Plastic and Chemicals. This project will be located closed to the second refinery and will use a […]
Total joins Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) represented by its wholly-owned subsidiaries Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) and Petrochemicals Industries Co. (PIC) in the Joined Venture with Sinopec for this $9 billion “Refinery” and “Petrochemical” complex at Zhanjiang, in China’s southern Guangdong province. In fact Total took the opportunity to substitute Shell which had pulled out of […]
Qatar Petrochemical Company (Qapco) awarded the Taiwanese CTCI two EPC contracts for the expansion and up-grade of its ethylene production facility in Mesaieed Industrial City. Phase 1 will include the installation of new furnaces and an ethylene storage tank with the latest technologies to meet the state-of-art of the environmental requirements. The contract for this […]
Shell continues to progress plans to build a proposed world-scale petrochemical complex in the Appalachia region, USA, which could upgrade locally-produced ethane from Marcellus shale gas production. Shell Appalachia is headquartered in Warrendale, PA, USA, and has 185 employees located in Pennsylvania, with approximately 50 employees located in Tioga County. With the acquisition of East Resources, […]
Today the Marcellus Shale gas field in USA is considered with its 500 trillion cuf gas reserves as the second biggest gas field in the World after… the North field in Offshore Qatar. Many companies are operating in this field covering the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, USA. Among the key […]
Petronas Chemical Group (PCG) is planning to build a US$20 billion RAPID (Refinery and Petrochemicals Integrated Development) plant in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia, which borders Singapore, — the largest oil trading hub in Asia. The project is key for grabbing a larger share in the $395 billion global market for specialty chemicals — high value raw materials used in […]
The $13 billion Keystone project is an entire network of pipelines connecting the key sources of supply from Alberta, Canada, in North end, and Gulf of Mexico, USA, in South end, to the main storage, trading and refining locations of Cushing, Oklahoma, USA, of Port Arthur, Texas, USA, and of Wood River & Patoka, USA. […]
