ethane cracker
Sasol to prioritize US GTL on Canada GTL project In a press conference in Louisiana, Sasol’s chief executive officer, David Constable, confirmed the decision of the board to move on the front end engineering and design (FEED) stage of the first Gas-To-Liquids (GTL) project to be built in USA. To be located in its site […]
Third largest US oil and gas company by equity Home based in Los Angeles, California, USA, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) is listed in New York Stock Exchange since 1964 and is operating as an international oil company. With more than 40,000 employees, Oxy focuses its oil and gas operations in three core regions of the world: […]
Braskem Idesa awards petrochemicals EPC contract Braskem Idesa S.A.P.I. (Braskem Idesa) awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Technip-Odebrecht-ICA Fluor for the Veracruz Ethylene XXI petrochemical complex in Mexico. Braskem Idesa is a joint venture between the Brazilian chemical company Braskem and Grupo Idesa with working interest are shared: – Braskem 65% is […]
Definition Acrylic acid is an unsaturated carboxylic acid extracted from propylene Acryclic acid is a colorless pungent and corrosive liquid in polymerized form. The formal name for acrylic acid is propenoic acid. Acrylic acid is miscible with water, alcohols and esters. Comments Acrylic acid is produced from propylene as an ethylene by-product of ethane or naphtha […]
Qatar Petroleum holds 10% of $3 billion Arzew project Since Total and Sonatrach had announced the giant Arzew petrochemical complex, the project had to be put on hold by the lack of ethane as feedstock to supply the cracker. This ethane should come from the Hassi R’meil natural gas fields, but transportation along the 500km to […]
Saudi Aramco and Total to go for Aromatics in phase 2 While the joint venture Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (Satorp) is completing the construction of the refinery as the first phase of the project to come on stream in 2013, Total and Saudi Aramco are already working on the second phase about petrochemicals in […]
Definition Mixed cracker refers to cracker in the refining process which can treat equally ethane or naphtha Comments The cracker is a master piece of the refining process to produce gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and all the building blocks of the petrochemical industry (ethylene, propylene, butadiene and all their respective derivatives) To feed this cracker, usually a […]
Dow and Saudi Aramco $20 billion Sadara takes shape Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara) is a joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). Once complete, Sadara petrochemical complex will be one of the world’s largest integrated chemical complex and the largest ever built in a single phase. The facility […]
