Ethane
The international oil company (IOC), Chevron Phillips, and the national oil company (NOC), Qatar Energy (QE), signed a heads of agreement (HoA) to build and operate an estimated $8 billion-worth petrochemicals project on the US Gulf of Mexico coast, under the name Golden Triangle Polymers.
Badlands NGL and Vinmar to monetize US shale gas The Delaware-registered company Badlands NGL’s LLC (Badlands NGL) and Vinmar Projects (Vinmar) from Houston, Texas, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to design, build, operate a world-scale polyethylene greenfield plant and merchant its production out of North Dakota shale gas basins of the Bakken Formation in […]
Gazprom creates All-Russia Gas Chemistry Center In 2011, Salavatnefteorgsintez changed name to become JSC Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat (GNS) in order to support the creation of the All-Russia Gas Chemistry Center for the expansion project on the existing Volga petrochemical complex in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. This Gazprom–led project is part of the Russian Government […]
Saudi Aramco to award shale gas treatment FEED The world largest company by the size of crude oil reserves, Saudi Aramco, is planning to award the front end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the gas central processing facilities to support the development of the shale gas exploration – production in three regions of Saudi […]
PIC Olefins-3 integrated in KNPC New Refinery Project The wholly state-owned Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC) is considering to relocate its Olefins-3 project along the New refinery Project (NRP) planned by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) in Al-Zour, Kuwait. PIC and KNPC may be defined as sisters companies as both belongs to the national Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC). […]
Shell confirms Monaca Ethane Cracker on projects list After reassessing its projects list in regards of its investment capabilities, the super major Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) is confirming its Pennsylvania Petrochemical Complex project and the related Monaca Ethane Cracker to stay in its projects list. Instead, Shel is reconsidering the envisaged gas to liquid (GTL) project on Gulf Coast. This […]
PTTGC – Pertamina to sign Java Complex joint venture The Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical plc (PTTGC) and the Indonesian national oil company (NOC) Pertamina are in final talks to establish a joint venture to build from greenfield a world-scale petrochemical complex in Java, Indonesia. This process is following up a heads of agreement (HOA) signed […]
Gazprom and Sibur ink MOU for Belogorsk project The Russian companies Gazprom and Sibur materialized in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) their intention to build a gas processing plant (GPP) and a petrochemical complex at Belogorsk in the Amur Region of the Far East Russia. This project is a consequence of Eastern Gas Program approved […]
