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Wentworth leads consortium with Cove Energy and Maurel & Prom The Dubai-based Wentworth Resources (Wentworth) is an independent oil and gas company with natural gas production and a committed exploration program in the Rovuma Basin of southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique. Wentworth and its concession partners Cove Energy (Cove) and Maurel & Prom own a gas […]
Daelim signed MOU for Petrolimex $4.8 billion refinery Actually Vietnam has just one major refinery, the $2.2 billion Dung Quat complex with a capacity of 130,500 b/d and is working on the $7.5 billion Nghi Son refinery. In order to meet its domestic demand by 2020, Vietnam would need 600,000 b/d capacity in respect with the […]
BASF to build butadiene extraction plant in Antwerp The butadiene is a monomer and used as an important chemical intermediate to produce elastomers and thermoplastics, such as synthetic rubbers, latex, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene copolymer and polyamide. The tire industry is the main consumers of butadiene. Other applications for butadiene include paper chemicals and plastics production. BASF is […]
PetroRabigh II and Sadara to double Saudi Aramco petrochemical production The PetroRabigh expansion, or PetroRabigh II, is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and the Japanese Sumitomo Chemical while the greenfield project Sadara actually under construction is a joint venture with Dow Chemicals. But the both projects are designed to almost double Aramco’s chemicals manufacturing […]
QP and Shell completed feasibility study on $6 billion Ras Laffan petrochemical complex Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Shell have completed the feasibility study of the World-scale petrochemicals Complex in in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar Estimated to cost $6 billion capital expenditure this petrochemical complex will be designed around a world-scale steam mixed cracker (ethane or methane) Shell and QP are targeting to benefit from […]
ExxonMobil and Sabic to build a world scale synthetic rubber greenfield plant in Middle-East Al-Jubail Petrochemical Company (Kemya) is a 50/50 joint venture between Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and Exxon Chemical Arabia Inc., an affiliate of ExxonMobil Chemical Company. The two companies have collaborated closely since the joint venture was established in 1980, producing […]
Philadelphia Refinery to rely on Marcellus shale gas Last year Sunoco Inc (Sunoco) had announced to close the Philadelphia refinery in Pennsylvania, USA, on summer 2012 if no buyer could be found in the meantime. But the development of the shale gas in USA much faster than expected and in very competitive conditions offers a […]
Reliance to gear up on $11 billion Jamnagar refinery expansion Reliance Industry Ltd (Reliance or RIL) is making major steps in the expansion of its refinery located in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. With $11 billion capital expenditure, Reliance is planning one of the brownfield largest expansion of energy and petrochemical projects gobally. Commissioned on July 1999 with an installed refining capacity of 668,000 b/d, 1.9 million t/y Polypropylene and 1.5 million t/y Paraxylene unit, Jamnagar is the […]
